JA shipped 1.7GW of PV kitlast year – up just 0.4% on the year prior – as the Shanghai-based manufacturerprioritised cost reduction and stringent cash management.

Among other aspects of itscost-reduction campaign, JA retired 600MW of cell and module capacity in late2012, leaving it with a capacity of 2.5GW for cells, 1.8GW for modules and 1GW forwafers – levels it intends to hold steady for the foreseeable future.

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