The
company
became
the
latest
of
China’s
big
PV
equipment
groups
to
downgrade
its
full-year
guidance,
following
peers
Yingli
and
JA
Solar
earlier
this
week.
Suntech
says
it
now
expects
to
ship
between
1.8GW
and
2GW
this
year.
It
had
previously
guided
the
market
to
a
full-year
total
of
2.1GW
to
2.5GW.
The
company
posted
a
second-quarter
negative
gross
margin
of
10%
on
revenues
of
about
$471m,
well
down
on
the
$830.7m
it
pulled
in
during
the
same
three
months
last
year.
Chief
executive
David
King
–
who
has
only
just