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Having shipped around 351 megawatts MW of modules in the fourth quarter of 2010, Trina experienced a decline of 8.7 percent in the first quarter of 2011. However, at 320 MW, shipments were up a significant 66.4 percent on the first quarter of last year. The uncertain stanley cup ty surrounding Italy聮s solar incentives were cited as the main reason for the sequential decline.In terms of second quarter photovoltaic shipments, Trina is optimisti stanley cup c, saying that it expects to hit between 430 and 450 MW. For the full year, the company predicts total module shipments to be between 1.75 and 1.80 gigawatts GW .I stanley cup t says that to meet expected demand for its modules, it hopes to increase its annualized in-house ingot and wafer production capacity from 750 MW to approximately 1.2 GW, and photovoltaic cell and module production capacity from around 1.6 GW to roughly 1.9 GW in the second half of 2011, based on actual manufacturing yield.Meanwhile, at USD$550.9 million, the company聮s net revenues experienced a sequential decline of 14.2 percent, but saw a year on year increase of 63.5 percent.Net income suffered a major fall from the fourth quarter of last year, having gone from $145.3 million to $47.7 million. This, says the company was due to a net foreign currency exchange loss of $24.1 million. Net income was slightly up, though, from the $44.5 million seen in the first quarter of last year.Gross profit, on the other hand, fell 25 percent from the fourth quarter of last year, to hit $151.3 m |
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