JA Solar was originally founded in 2005 and is based in Beijing, China. The company was listed on the US NASDAQ exchange back in 2007 during an early growth phase and has recently been acquired by JASO Acquisition Limited which effectively has taken the company private again.
The company has 9 manufacturing facilities in China and one in Malaysia and Vietnam with a total annual production capacity of 13.5 GW (reported by Bloomberg NEF). This makes JA Solar the third largest producer of Solar Panels as of September 2020.
JA Solar has 22,000 employees as of 2019 working across 32 factories and branches around the world.