The four-day Renewable Energy Asia 2017 was held from June 7 to 10, 2017 in Bangkok. On the first two days of the exhibition, Seraphim’s high-end booth style and high-efficiency exhibits display attracted many visitors on the site.

Seraphim brought its high-efficiency Eclipse™ modules, the new product of Blade half-cut module and EzBox™ modules to the exhibition. As the advantageous products of Seraphim, the high-efficiency modules drew the attention of the industry and its partners.

In the exhibition, Seraphim’s high-efficiency modules and good services were well received by local customers and visitors. With the further expansion of the broad market of Southeast Asia, Seraphim will have its reputation and brand influence further improved internationally.

On June 29, 2017, Jiangsu Seraphim Solar System Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Seraphim”) was awarded by China Building Material Test & Certification Group (hereinafter referred to as “CTC”) the qualification as “CTC-accredited PV Module Lab”. Quality Director Chen Jie of Seraphim and Head Han Song of the Glass and PV Products Test & Certification Institute of CTC attended the ceremony of award and made a speech.

Having been rapidly developing since the establishment in 2009, Seraphim has become a world-class leader in the field of manufacturing PV products, with the current capacity up to 2.1 GW throughout the world. Seraphim owns a world-class R&D lab which has been accredited by many international and domestic certification authorities including CSA Group, TÜV SÜD and CTC, showing that it has industry-leading PV testing technologies and operation and management systems. Based on long-term mutual cooperation and trust, CTC officially authorized Seraphim to be CTC-accredited PV module lab.

As the sole third-party test and certification authority of China who integrates test, certification, standard, scientific research, instrument research, development and marketing in the PV field, CTC owns the solar PV quality supervision and inspection center of national level, IECEE-accredited CB lab and the solar PV application test and demonstration base of national level, and has an increasing influence in terms of PV module test and certification, power plant acceptance and outdoor demonstration.

Quality Director Chen Jie of Seraphim said, “being the CTC-accredited PV module lab is very important for Seraphim, which may shorten the time to market and effectively and rapidly provide customers with high-quality PV modules. It is a great pleasure to maintain a good partnership with CTC. Thanks to CTC’s professional experience and outstanding reputation in the PV field, a good foundation is laid for the long-term development and market prospect of our products. We are looking forward to boosting the future development of the PV industry together with CTC.”

Han Song, Head of the Glass and PV Products Test & Certification Institute of CTC, said, “we are glad to authorize Seraphim to be CTC-accredited PV module lab, which shortens the period of certification of Seraphim’s products, saves the certification cost, avoids the complicated process of sending samples and initiates a mutual-benefit and win-win situation through today’s ceremony of award. Together with Seraphim, we will make joint efforts to construct a new platform of cooperation, and provide high-quality and high-efficiency PV products for the industries of PV and new energy.”

InterSolar Europe was held from May 31-June 2 in Munich, Germany. This is one of the world’s largest and most influential exhibition for the solar industry so far, with all internationally renowned enterprises in the industry, including Seraphim as the world’s leading PV module manufacturer.

On the first day of the exhibition, Seraphim’s high-end booth style and concise exhibits distribution attracted many visitors for business negotiation and enquiry of product performance.

Seraphim displayed its new products this year, among which the high-efficiency modules represented by the Blade half-cut module and Eclipse™ module are a highlight in the exhibition. The Blade half-cut cell module launched is designed through combination of the innovative half-cut cell technology with the half-cut cells in series and high-efficiency module, which effectively improves the module power output, reduces relevant BoS and system costs and minimize the effect of hot spots and shadows. Such module may also bring higher system profits. The half-cut series of monocrystalline module of Blade has 60 types of the output power up to 300 W, of which the conversion efficiency is 18.33%.

The Solar Show Philippines 2017 was held from May 24-26 at the SMX Convention Centre in Manila, Philippines. The event held in the most dynamic market of Asia in the fields of new energy and utilities has attracted a large number of exhibitors and visitors from different countries every year, including Seraphim.

According to the market condition of the Philippines, the sales team of Seraphim brought three high-quality modules to the trade show, including a 320 W monocystalline module of Eclipse™, 330W polycrystalline module of EzBox™ and a Duraflex™ module that may bear a load up to 8000 PA.

The EnerSolar + BRASIL 2017-International Fair of Technologies for Solar Energy was held from May 23 to 25, 2017. As the world’s leading PV module manufacturer, Seraphim attended the fair.

Seraphim displayed three modules including a 330 W high-efficiency Eclipse™ monocystalline module, 270 W double-glass module and a conventional 275 W polycrystalline module at booth 456 (on RUA 450) in the fair.

In the fair, Seraphim’s innovative products and good services were well received by visitors. With the expansion of the broad market of South America, Seraphim will have its reputation and brand influence further improved internationally.

On May 24-25, Jiangsu Seraphim SolarSystem Co., Ltd. was invited to China Intelligent PV Manufacturing Conference 2017as a terminal supporting unit. In the conference, Qian Hongjiang, Director ofthe Strategic Innovation Department of Seraphim, gave a report themed by “IntelligentManufacturing with PV”, and shared the practice of Seraphim in the intelligentmanufacturing demonstration plant.

It is introduced that the conference invites German Industrie 4.0 experts,including experts of KUKA Industrial Automation, Secretary of Industry 4.0 Club,experts of Shanghai Intelligent Manufacturing Research Institute and HangzhouAutomation Research Institute and the intelligent PV manufacturingdemonstration plants including Seraphim, Artes and Chint and the supporting Industrie 4.0 experts who describethe origin of intelligent PV manufacturing of China.

To respond to the policy of “China Manufacturing2025”, Seraphim takes the lead in transferring to intelligentmanufacturing from traditional manufacturing, with the PV intelligent plantintegrating design, R&D, material transportation management, productionscheduling, production management, on-site management and after-sales services.The intelligent plant is equipped with the automatic production lines whoseintellectual properties are owned by Seraphim, and takes equipment, process andproduction operation and management into account in the concept ofintelligence, thus ensuring the perfect combination of process and equipmentand creating intelligent and complete sets of equipment and low productioncost; with the world’s most advanced H.A.L.M testing system and the automaticidentification facilities including barcodes, e-labels and barcode scanners, itmonitors the plant environment and resource consumption via Internet of Things.With the self-developed production management system of ERP that apply to PVenterprises, PV enterprises’ characteristics are fully considered, and recordsand statistic analyses are made on the whole process implementation plan andinformation system, forming the first real-time and traceable product qualitymanagement system in the industry. In 2015, Seraphim became one of the firstbatch of companies who pass the certification of intelligent demonstrationplant of Jiangsu.

On April 21, Seraphim stood out from thousands of exhibitors by virtue of its high-efficiency Eclipse™ HIT module, and won the Megawatt Jadeite Award in the 3 days of SNEC “Top 10 Highlights Award Ceremony” in 2017.

The high-efficiency Eclipse™ HIT module features low temperature without light induced degradation, of which the efficiency is above 21.17% (360 W), being the preferred product of high power. With the Eclipse imbrication technology which takes full advantage of the gaps within the module, in the event of same area, cells may be designed at most 13% more than that for a traditional module. Due to the design free of solder trips, the line loss greatly reduces, and CTM greatly increases, and the maximum output power of a single module improves by over 10%.

Technical Director Jin Peng of Seraphim participated in the award ceremony and said, “it is a great pleasure for Seraphim to win the SNEC Top 10 Highlights Awards for 2 consecutive years. Thank the experts and partners for paying attention to our technologies and products. In the future, Seraphim will provide customers with high-quality and high-performance PV modules and help them gain more profits by being committed to intelligent manufacturing and continuous innovation.”

Additionally, Seraphim brought the high-efficiency Eclipse™ modules, double-glass modules and conventional monocrystalline and polycrystalline modules to the expo for meeting different market demands. To appreciate the SNEC expert group for the recognition and all customers for the support, Seraphim will make continuous efforts to create a better future.

On March 28-29, 2017, with an environmental-friendly and high-efficiency image, Seraphim brought its high-efficiency Eclipse™ modules and conventional monocrystalline and polycrystalline modules to the South Africa Solar Exhibition held in Johannesburg, which was the most important solar exhibition of South Africa with many international exhibitors.

As a highlight at the Exhibition, Seraphim’s high-efficiency Eclipse™ modules attracted many traders and customers. With innovative process, the Eclipse™ modules have the efficiency greatly improved, and thanks to their high stability, greatly-reduced hot spot effect and good PID resistance as well as the greatly improved appearance due to the grating-free design, the modules apply to various power generation projects including residences, commercial roofs and large ground power plants.

Through the exhibition, Seraphim made a full survey and evaluation on the market environment, consumption custom and religion of South Africa, laying a valuable foundation for understanding the new energy market of Africa, improving product positioning and expanding the market.

Having spread throughout over 30 countries, Seraphim’s PV products play an increasingly important role in the U.S., Japan, India and Europe. As the world’s leading PV module manufacturer standing out at the Exhibition, Seraphim will make an important distribution in the new energy market of South Africa to lay a solid foundation for market expansion.

On the morning of March 9, 2017, the deputy governor Ma Qiulin visited and instructed the solar module production workshop in Jiangsu Seraphim Solar System Co., Ltd. The deputy mayor of Changzhou Liang Yibo, the deputy secretary-general of the municipal government Zhou Qing, the deputy director of the Wujin district Xu Zhiguo, and the leaders of Economic and Information Commission, and Safety Supervision Bureau all joint the research, and listened to Seraphim’s introduction to related industrial development and operation conditions.

Vice governor Ma Qiulin and his party arrived at the head office of Seraphim. They visited the intellectual production workshop accompanied by Chairman Zhou Ze, and learned more about Seraphim’s latest achievements in broad application of smart devices, interconnection of workshop equipments, automatic material distribution, product information traceability and intelligent monitoring of workshop environment, etc.

After the research, Ma Qiulin highly appreciated Seraphim’s consistent effort in independent innovation and hoped they can go further in this area, accelerate the transformation from “manufacturing” to “intellectual production”, build complete photovoltaic industry chain, take innovation as the source of core competitiveness and activate the business development by leveraging technological innovation.

On March 1-3, 2017, the largest and most influential PV Expo 2017 was held in Tokyo Big Sight International Exhibition Center. As the world’s leading PV module manufacturer, Seraphim participated in the expo with the new products including high-efficiency Eclipse™ HIT modules and Eclipse™ monocrystalline and polycrystalline modules, and shared its latest technological achievement and future development trend with those in the industry.

Seraphim mainly displayed its high-efficiency Eclipse™ HIT module at the Expo, of which the conversion efficiency is 21.2.%; such modules are made using the innovative Eclipse technologies and high-efficiency HIT cells, and through improvement of the cell grating design and the innovative packaging technology, the area of exposure to sunlight effectively increases; due to the HIT cells of hetero-junction structure, the photovoltaic conversion efficiency greatly improves, and the output power is of excellent temperature characteristic.

With the growing demand for high-efficiency modules, the Eclipse™ HIT modules of high conversion efficiency and stability, greatly-reduced hot spot effect and good PID resistance will be well received in the broad market.

Seraphim has been attaching importance to the PV market of Japan. In consideration of the good result yielded in the expo, Seraphim will continue to further develop the Japanese market by providing local customers with professional solutions using its high-quality products and excellent services, thus improving its influence in Japan.