China's Suntech opens up 3.5-GW module manufacturing facility in Changzhou

• Chinese photovoltaics (PV) maker Wuxi Suntech Power Co Ltd has opened a brand-new 3.5-GW wise module manufacturing facility in Changzhou, Jiangsu district.

The statement was made on Tuesday, simply a couple of weeks after Suntech claimed it had actually finished a 1.5-GW expansion at its Wuxi module manufacturing facility.

The business invested an overall of CNY 700 million (USD 101m/EUR 85.8 m) on the Changzhou project and in the process included a variety of brand-new kind clever module production workshops at the website. The manufacturing facility now has brand-new automatic tools thanks to which the module production performance there has actually been "considerably increased."

Both the Waxi as well as Changzhou plants currently have assembly line that are compatible with multi-busbar cells of numerous styles.