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Fortune China officially released the 2024 Fortune Tech 50 list, and the world-leading solar technology company, LONGi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd. (hereafter as “LONGi”), was selected for its outstanding performance in technological innovation, product development, and intelligent manufacturing.
The Fortune Tech 50 list aims to identify technology companies born in China that are influencing the world. These companies are driven by innovation, continuously invest in research and development, actively expand application scenarios, have achieved remarkable results in the domestic market, and are even leading global trends, making important contributions to the development of future technologies.
Innovation is the soul of LONGi and the internal driving force for the continuous development of the photovoltaic industry. As a member of China’s photovoltaic industry, LONGi has made systematic breakthroughs in mono-crystalline silicon rods, wafers, cells and modules, contributing to the high-quality development of the industry.
In terms of wafers, the company-led project “Key Technological Innovations and Applications of High-Efficiency and Low-Cost Manufacturing of Solar Mono-crystalline Silicon Wafers” won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award. This is the first time that a private enterprise has won the highest honor in the national science and technology field as the first completing unit and the first completer since the establishment of this award in the field of photovoltaics in China. The newly developed LONGi TaiRay wafer has broken the dilemma of no performance breakthrough in the single-crystal silicon wafer field for nearly ten years, becoming a weathervane for the development of wafer technology.
In terms of cells, the company has made breakthroughs in multiple technical and process difficulties of PERC and BC cells. The “Super High-Efficiency and Low-Cost Back-Contact Crystalline Silicon Hetero-junction Solar Cells” and “Super High-Efficiency Silicon-Based Tandem Cells” led by LONGi’s R&D team were successfully selected as “2023 Major Scientific and Technological Progress in the Field of Photovoltaics”. Since this year, LONGi has refreshed its own world records with 27.30% and 34.6%, respectively, and is currently the “Dual Champion” of the world record for single-crystal silicon cells and crystalline-silicon-perovskite tandem cells. Since 2023, the company has focused on upgrading and iterating BC technology, forming a rich BC full-scenario product matrix, creating more value for customers with technological innovation + scenario satisfaction.
While achieving technological innovation, LONGi is also actively promoting intelligent manufacturing innovation. In December 2023, LONGi’s Jiaxing Production Base was selected as a “Lighthouse Factory” by the World Economic Forum, which is also the first “Lighthouse Factory” in the global photovoltaic industry. In this “Lighthouse Factory,” LONGi has extensively adopted new technologies such as industrial internet, big data, artificial intelligence, and digital twins, successfully implementing more than 30 digital use cases. With the help of digital and intelligent means, the company has achieved the leap from “manufacturing” to “intelligent manufacturing.”
