China-based Trina Solar, an integrated manufacturer of solar photovoltaic products, plans to start warehouse operations in Rotterdam, a major European port city in the Netherlands.

The Mayor of San Francisco has welcomed Trina Solar Limited's choice of the City of San Francisco as the location for its North America base.

Yingli Green Energy, a Chinese vertically integrated photovoltaic product manufacturer, has entered into a new long-term polysilicon supply agreement with German company Wacker Chemie AG.

ET Solar Group, a Nanjing-based solar power solution provider and integrated manufacturer of photovoltaic products including ingots, wafers, modules, and state-of-the-art dual-axis tracking systems, with manufacturing facilities located in Taizhou, China, has announced a 15MW module sales contract with Helios Technology, an Italian manufacturer of photovoltaic cells, photovoltaic modules, inverters and charge regulators.

In their Energy Rating Comparison Measurement tests in 2008 TUV has rated Chinese manufacturer Trina Solar in the top three manufacturers of monocrystalline photovoltaic modules.

Nanjing-based ET Solar Group has signed a master agreement for the turn-key construction of solar power plants for Wattner Group of Cologne, an initiator of closed-end energy and infrastructure funds.

Xuzhou, Jiangsu based GCL Silicon Technology Holdings Inc is to supply Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. a manufacturer of photovoltaic cells and modules, with 9,420 metric tonnes of polysilicon and 1.1 gigawatt of silicon wafers from 2008 to 2012.

China Technology Development Group Corporation, a provider of solar energy products and solutions in China focusing on a-Si thin-film technology, has unveiled a redesigned website to give more detailed information to its stakeholders.

Spire Corporation, a global solar company providing turnkey solar factories and capital equipment to manufacture photovoltaic modules worldwide, has announced that it has entered into a multi-year, multi-system contract to provide key module line equipment to Trina Solar Limited in China.

Evolution Solar Corp. has acquired Synergy Design and Development Company Limited, a Hong Kong R&D and procurement company based in Shanghai.