Sweden's SKF bearing manufacturers optimistic about China's heavy truck market

Without bearings, the aircraft could not fly, the car could not run, and the elevator could not open. Bearings become indispensable parts for machinery, especially for heavy machinery, so that bearing capacity of a country can reflect the manufacturing level of a country. Bearing manufacturing is also considered as a national strategy. For Chinese heavy trucks, SKF's Jinan plant produces and supplies heavy-duty truck bearings.

Maintenance-free high-precision heavy-duty bearing unit manufactured by SKF Jinan Plant
Maintenance-free high-precision heavy-duty bearing unit manufactured by SKF Jinan Plant

● Jinan factory came for heavy truck

If there is no special case, SKF's Jinan factory's warehouse will have a factory bearing that will be pulled directly into the axle production line of China National Heavy Duty Truck Bridge Corporation. After further assembly and production, it will eventually be shipped from CNHTC's Jinan truck factory and sold at home and abroad.

SKF is a Swedish company and the largest bearing manufacturer in the world. There are more than 200 factories in the world, and there are more than 20 manufacturing units in China alone. On September 13, 2012, at the Suncun Advanced Manufacturing Industrial Base in Jinan High-tech Zone, the SKF Group invested more than RMB 600 million in SKF's Jinan plant, which was officially put into operation, mainly supplying truck bearings to the Chinese market.

In fact, the landing of SKF's Jinan plant has a lot to do with China National Heavy Duty Truck. At the press conference for the production of SKF's Jinan plant, Cai Dong, general manager of CNHTC, once introduced that the cooperation agreement signed between Sinotruk and SKF will be a long-term cooperation. In his view, heavy-duty trucks have a bridge box company, two gearbox companies, and two engine companies all need a large number of SKF products. SKF's products will also be used in large quantities. SKF cannot reject China. Market this "big cake."

Indeed, the SKF Jinan plant is for heavy-duty trucks in China. To be more precise, SKF values ​​the heavy-duty truck market with Sino-German cooperation. In July 2009, China National Heavy Duty Truck and the world's third-largest heavy truck manufacturer German Man Group achieved strategic cooperation. The cooperation was deemed by CNHTC as a new milestone in the history of CNHTC. Mann Technology and SKF Bearings also provided a new competitive advantage for CNHTC, which has grown from Jinan.

SKF Jinan Plant produces bearings for heavy trucks
SKF Jinan Plant produces bearings for heavy trucks

● Market expansion to all parts of the world

In order to facilitate the distribution of truck bearings to heavy trucks, the SKF Jinan plant is built within 2 km west of Heavy-Air Bridge Case Co., Ltd. Each year, 400,000 to 500,000 SKF bearings are delivered to CNHTC. "According to the current situation, this year is expected to reach 700,000, and the output value will be around 80 million yuan." Zhao Hongjin, deputy director of the SKF plant in Jinan, said that the cooperation of Sinotruk and Mann has been grinding swords for six years, and trucks of heavy trucks have been selling. The more you have, the more SKF bearings will be supplied.

However, the expansion of the business of the SKF Jinan plant has been subject to some restrictions. Due to the sluggish sales of the truck market in recent years, economic downturn pressure and the impact of the new business's just-initiated business expansion, the production capacity of the SKF Jinan plant has not been maximized. “Although there are errors, overall, the development in the past two years is still possible.” Zhao Hongjin introduced that in 2013, SKF’s sales were 35 million yuan, and in 2014 it reached 70 million yuan, and this year's target is 1.5 billion yuan. .

Bearings are indispensable components for all types of machinery, especially heavy machinery. Bearing manufacturing capacity of a country can reflect the manufacturing level of a country. Therefore, bearing manufacturing is also regarded as a national strategy. In the fierce competition of more than 100,000 bearing manufacturers in the country, it has won a big battle. SKF is relying on technological advantages. It is understood that the world’s first inventor of ball bearings was SKF. Not only that, SKF also invented a maintenance-free precision bearing unit. “This technology is standard in Europe, but it is in the Chinese market. There is a huge application space, which is also a major selling point after cooperation between SKS and SKF, said Zhao Hongjin.

Today, bearings exported from SKF's Jinan plant are supplied to large companies such as Dongfeng and Guangdong Fuhua, in addition to heavy trucks, as well as SKF bearings on China's high-speed rail and some passenger cars and trucks. The figure. If there is excess capacity, SKF Jinan Plant also considers overseas markets, including Japan, Southeast Asia, Brazil, Colombian graduates, South Africa, Saudi Arabia and other countries and regions.

● Products are affixed with Jinan Business Card

On June 2, 2015, the reporter saw in the bearing production workshop of SKF's Jinan plant that the entire production line had high requirements on the production environment, and any workers who entered the workshop needed to replace the production of footwear and clothes for production. The introduction of dust, the production process a large number of mechanized operations.

Due to the high level of automation in the entire production process, there are few places for employment. According to reports, there are only about 100 employees in the factory's workshop. "These employees are mainly used in the final process of bearing production. The final manual inspection of the finished bearing is performed by hand and the visual inspection is performed without error." According to management personnel, some of them will be directly delivered to the heavy-steel bridge box production line.

The introduction of foreign advanced production technology, digestion and absorption for my use, SKF's completion also contributed to the development of China's equipment manufacturing industry. As stated by the CEO of SKF Automotive, Terry Stein, the new plant in Jinan will provide tapered roller bearings and SKF discrete card wheel hub units to the truck, industrial and automotive aftermarket. Designed for the market will take an important step in the design of new vehicles in China.

The landing of the SKF Jinan Plant is an important part of the high-tech equipment manufacturing industry cluster in the Sunan Advanced Manufacturing Industrial Base in Jinan Hi-tech Zone. Every bearing from this factory is affixed with the "high-tech manufacturing" Jinan business card.

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