Trina Solar

Last Wednesdey,  we visited Trina Solar, the solar power leader company in China.

The first thing that we learned was the meaning of the word Trina: “Harmonised environment for the people, their main objective”.

The visit was divided into five stages:

The first one was in an auditorium and consisted of an introduction to the company´s history and trajectory throughout the years.

Trina Solar was founded in 1997 and was from the beginning a pioneer company in this field. In 2000 was created the first BIPV house model in China. After a few years, in 2012, they developed a technology of science key laboratory, this being a very important step for them to continue as the – pioneer leader company in innovation in the word –. I make special mention to the innovative characteristics of this company because, during the whole visit, it was mentioned many times, as they made very clear that they had invested huge sums of money and effort in this.

One other thing that we learned in this first stage of the company´s visit was that, not only three of their most important researcher partnerships are Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore, the Australian National University and The University of Queensland, but also Trina Solar cooperates with more than fifteen countries around the world.

For the second part of the visit we were shown to an exhibition room where we saw very easily how solar panels are made, and which are the principal characteristics of the energy that they produce. As simple outline of how the panel making process works is:

Machinery → Silicon → Wafer → Cell → Module → System.

Furthermore, they also have built a smaller scale reproduction of their future plans, where Trina Solar  not only has their solar panel´s factory but also will constructed two more additional areas, one with several houses, for the company´s employees and another with schools, shops and a hospital for this mini-society that they have created regarding their workers needs when they started developing their business.

Scale reproduction of their future plans

The third stage was a walk through the factory, where we were shown the machinery and the procedures of this process and the different areas in which the factory has divided the solar panel´s production. This was explained to us by a very nice guide who told us too, the particularities of each phase of the process.

The next stage was a very unique experience for all of us, as we had lunch in the factory´s canteen and where we experimented the huge gastronomical and behaviour differences between the Chinese culture and ours. So, even if Trina Solar is a leader company in this energy field, being one of the most important companies with a wide variety of partnerships throughout the world, they still have a typical and traditional Chinese canteen.

I mean that it was made very clear that they don´t waste much time and resources in this issue, that is, trying to adapt to what the modern XXI century society considers as a standard canteen, with a minimum appearance and hygiene levels.

As an end to this visit, we went again to the auditorium, where two experts answered, or maybe is better said, tried to answer the doubts that we had during the same. A thing that we can take from this visit was that, in this company each worker has his own field and they don’t know much about the other components and elements that forms the solar panel´s process. It was very curious to see that they don’t even have an overall idea of how the different elements inside the company come together to create these leadership and global results.

To sum up I think that this visit was very illustrative and I have to thank Trina Solar  for their attention in all moments and their predisposition to show us how this company works inside and out, clarifying our doubts.

It´s clear that they had organise this visit with lot of care.

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