CHINT Group Corporation
CHINT Group (正泰集团) is a low-voltage electrical power transmission and electricity distribution company with a sales turnover of $2 billion in 2006.
CHINT was founded in 1984 in the city of Wenzhou. It has over 16,000 employees.
Main product lines include: high, Medium and low voltage electrical apparatus, power transmission and distribution equipments, measuring meters and instruments, electrical products for construction, automation control devices and automobile applications.
In 2006, it was ranked 15th largest of the top 100 private companies in China by Forbes and as the largest power transmission and distribution/controlling devices corporation in the country.
Subsidiaries
Astronergy Solar was founded in 2006 and is based in Hangzhou. Astronergy is one of the first in the world, and the first Chinese company, to bring mass production of second-generation amorphous silicon/microcrystalline silicon tandem junction thin film technology (a-Si/uc-Si) to market. Astronergy is led by a global management team with a half-century of experience in thin film research & development. In June 2009, it inaugurated its first 30 MW a-Si/uc-Si mass production line, and expects to reach 1 GW production capacity by 2012.