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COMPANY NEWS

At the commissioning ceremony, Mr. Jun Tang,
president of Suntech, said, “As a long-established PV
company, it is time for Suntech to upgrade to advanced
production capacity. The expansion of the Wuxi
manufacturing facility is the first step in our steady
growth strategy, which will be added 8.5GW of
advanced capacity to our four factories this year. We
are not just striving to be big, but to be strong. The
‘strong’ is reflected in how to provide customers with
reliable products. We are expanding at a steady pace
and following our goals for brand strategy.

Since its establishment in 2001, Suntech has experienced twenty years of development and achieved great success in the renewable energy industry. Suntech has
been developing with good momentum these years. Supported by the excellent brand reputation globally, the export scale has increased year by year, and shipments
have reached new highs. As of the first quarter of this year, Suntech has a cumulative shipment of more than 22GW of PV modules to 100 countries, the shipments
ranked top 10 among all brands in the solar energy sector globally. In the second half of the year, Suntech will continue to integrate the resources of the group. Based
on current production capacity, new manufacturing facilities will be set up in Changzhou, Zhenjiang, Yangzhou and others. The realization of higher target production
capacity will further satisfy the global PV market’s demand for high-quality, high-reliability PV modules, thus enhancing the competitiveness of Suntech´s PV modules
in global markets.

Suntech Expands

Its High-efficiency

Module Production

Capacity by

1.5GW in Wuxi

With a total investment of 490 million RMB, the new 1.5GW high-standard
smart module manufacturing facility which covers an area of 150,000 square
meters has been set up. The newly installed equipment will improve the
On August 1st, Suntech production efficiency for modules. At present, Suntech’s new production line
has covered all mainstream technologies for products in the market. It is
announced that the 1.5GW compatible with multi-busbar cells of various formats from 166mm to 182mm,
high-efficiency module expan- fitting 78-cell solar modules, as well as the upgrade space for 210mm large
sion in the Wuxi module manu- format cells. Suntech will keep upgrading the Wuxi manufacturing facility with
intelligent technology later this year, and is committed to creating a national
facturing facility was officially pilot demonstration project of intelligent manufacturing and a national project
put into production. of intelligent manufacturing with comprehensive standardization and
application of new modes, which will enable the Wuxi manufacturing facility
to achieve AI intelligent inspection and IV automatic testing and other
technological improvements.

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