By theend of this year, the two companies expect to bring 60MW of production capacityonline at the factory in Funning, Jiangsu province, Canadian Solar chiefexecutive Shawn Qu said in a conference call last week. The plant’s productioncapacity could eventually reach 1.2GW, Qu said.

CanadianSolar owns 80% of the venture, while GCL-Poly — the world’s biggest maker of polysilicon andwafers for the PV sector —holds the remaining 20%.