{"id":29970,"date":"2019-05-02T06:45:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T20:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=29970"},"modified":"2019-05-02T06:47:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T20:17:57","slug":"longi-jinko-solar-manufacturing-mb1038","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/longi-jinko-solar-manufacturing-mb1038\/","title":{"rendered":"Longi And JinkoSolar Beefing Up Production Capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-29971\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jinko-longi-solar-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"Longi and JinkoSolar\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jinko-longi-solar-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jinko-longi-solar-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jinko-longi-solar-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jinko-longi-solar.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two of China&#8217;s solar manufacturing heavyweights are expanding production capacity to address growing demand for their products.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Longi released its 2018 annual report and Q1 2019 results yesterday, plus the company&#8217;s plans for increasing output.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of this year the company says its ingot\/wafer production capacity will be 36GW (up from 28GW in December 2018), cell manufacturing capacity 10GW and module capacity 16GW.<\/p>\n<p>Longi has also set its sights on 50GW ingot\/wafer capacity, 15GW cell production capacity and 25GW module capacity by the end of next year. It&#8217;s not stopping there &#8211; by the end of 2021, it intends having 65GW ingot\/wafer, 20GW cell and 30GW solar panel manufacturing capacity.<\/p>\n<p>The company <a href=\"https:\/\/en.longi-solar.com\/Home\/Events\/press_detail\/id\/110.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">says<\/a> that last year it shipped 7.072GW of solar cells and modules, a 50% increase over the previous year.\u00a0 Longi has certainly seen sustained growth in shipments over the past few years:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29973\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/longi-solar-shipments.png\" alt=\"Longi Solar shipments\" width=\"800\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/longi-solar-shipments.png 800w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/longi-solar-shipments-300x94.png 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/longi-solar-shipments-768x241.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/longi-solar-panels\/\">entered the Australian market<\/a> back in 2017 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/longi-solar-review.html\">reviews of Longi Solar panels<\/a> to date from Australian customers have generally been very positive.<\/p>\n<h2>JinkoSolar Building New Mono Wafer Plant<\/h2>\n<p>JinkoSolar announced yesterday it is expanding its mono wafer production capacity with the construction of a new 5GW manufacturing facility in Leshan, Sichuan Province, China.<\/p>\n<p>As at the end of last year, JinkoSolar&#8217;s mono wafer capacity was 5.7 GW, which was boosted to 6.5 GW by the end of March through improvements in production output and efficiency. The new facility will bring Jinko&#8217;s wafer capacity from 6.5 GW to 11.5 GW.<\/p>\n<p>The plant, which is already under construction, is expected to begin production in third quarter of this year and reach full production capacity in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Global demand for high-efficiency mono products is increasing significantly with technology facilitating the shift from multi-based products to mono ones,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/ir.jinkosolar.com\/news-releases\/news-release-details\/jinkosolar-expanding-new-mono-wafer-production-capacity-5gw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> JinkoSolar Chief Executive Officer Kangping Chen .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other recent news from JinkoSolar, the company also announced yesterday it has already secured more than 10.7 GW in orders for this year so far.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Leveraging our large geographic footprint, we were able to rapidly benefit from the accelerating shift towards high-efficiency mono panels and secure over 10.<span id=\"spanHghltb7b6\">7 G<\/span>W orders for 2019 in record time,&#8221; said Jinko&#8217;s Chief Marketing Officer, Gener Miao.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That comment seems to indicate the 10.7GW is all solar modules &#8211; which is interesting given at the end of last year, Jinko&#8217;s annual production capacity for solar panels was only 10.8\u00a0GW.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/jinko-solar-review.html\">JinkoSolar panels<\/a> have also been a popular choice in Australia for home solar power systems, and as with Longi Solar are listed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solar-brands-trust.html\">SQ trusted solar brands chart<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of China&#8217;s solar manufacturing heavyweights are expanding production capacity to address growing demand for their products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":29971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Longi And JinkoSolar Beefing Up Production Capacity - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Two of China&#039;s solar manufacturing heavyweights are expanding production capacity to address growing demand for their products.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/longi-jinko-solar-manufacturing-mb1038\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Longi And JinkoSolar Beefing Up Production Capacity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Two of China&#039;s solar manufacturing heavyweights are expanding production capacity to address growing demand for their products.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/longi-jinko-solar-manufacturing-mb1038\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-05-01T20:15:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-05-01T20:17:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jinko-longi-solar.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/longi-jinko-solar-manufacturing-mb1038\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/longi-jinko-solar-manufacturing-mb1038\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Longi And JinkoSolar Beefing Up Production Capacity\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-05-01T20:15:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-05-01T20:17:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/longi-jinko-solar-manufacturing-mb1038\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":430,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/longi-jinko-solar-manufacturing-mb1038\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/05\\\/jinko-longi-solar.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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