The manufacturing plant in Rayong opens with the ability to produce 500MW annually, which Trina said could be expanded to 600MW “depending on overseas market demand”. The plant can also produce 700MW of cells.

Trina – the world’s biggest producer by volume of modules in 2015 with 5.7GW shipped – secured $143m of finance for the new plant with $100m of loans from SCB and China Minsheng Banking Corporation.

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