The leading PV manufacturing company Jinko Solar has been affected with a continuous fire at the wafer production facility located at the National Shangrao Economical and Technical Development Zone in the province of Jianxi, China. Jinko Solar stated that the fire began spreading from the raw materials present in the handling section of the factory while the cause of the fire was not known at that time. The company has also revealed that there were no any potential injuries and the fire was controlled within hour.

However, Energy-Trend, a Taiwan based market research firm, stated that the fire started spreading around 6 am local time on March 17 and was ultimately extinguished around 10 am local time. Energy Trend has also shared that around 1000 employees are working at the wafer plant. Jinko Solar said that the fire might have some impact on the usual production whereas the evaluated fire damage is around hundreds and thousands of Yuan.

Jinko Solar is a universal leader in the solar industry and the company is distributing all its solar products, services and solutions to an extensive international utility, residential and commercial customer base in China, Japan, Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, South Africa, India, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, France, Spain, Belgium and many other countries all around the world.

The company has constructed an uprightly integrated solar product chain besides an integrated yearly capacity of 2.5 GW for silicon wafers and ingots, 3.2 GW for solar modules and 2.0 GW for solar cells. Besides these, Jinko Solar is also selling electricity in China and has successfully connected around 500MW of solar ventures to the grid.

With more than 10,000 proficient employees and around 200 committed R&D professionals, JinkoSolar has spread across its branches in 11 different nations. The company also has 12 global sales offices in 12 nations and 4 production facilities in China, South Africa, Portugal, Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces.

Jinko-solar has been integrating state of the art polycrystalline solar PV technologies to optimize the whole power plant to ensure more dependable, reliable and cost effective yet quality PV energy solutions. Jinko Solar is well known for the industrial standards for the performance, design and workmanship of its products to obtain a consistent energy supply of PV system.

The company is also having domestic wafer production capacity that ranges around 2500 MW, which is located in Shangrao together with cell, ingot and module production. It also has domestic module and cell production in Haining.

Wafer operations in Shangrao are carried out within several buildings which boast an area around 68,396.80 square meters. These buildings include multicrystalline and mono crystalline ingot furnaces used in wafer operations.

Jinko Solar has given another statement which further downplays the impact of the fire and mentioned that the fire was put out within hour and did not have any impact on the surrounding area and other facilities. Jinko Solar has also downplayed that provisional estimated cost damages would be between RMB0.5 million and RMB1 million.

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