Schaeffler and Xingcheng Special Steel China Sarted cooperation for railway bearings

On November 17, Jiangyin Xingcheng Special Steel Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of CITIC Pacific Special Steel Group, and Schaeffler Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. signed a memorandum of cooperation on "R&D and application of advanced materials for railway bearings" in Jiangyin. Research and cooperative development in the field of advanced materials for railways to jointly improve the service life and safety of bearings for rail transit.

As a flagship product, the production and sales volume of bearing steel produced by Xingcheng Special Steel has ranked first in the country for 20 consecutive years, and ranked first in the world for 13 consecutive years. The company's high-end bearing steel occupies a leading position in the domestic market. It is one of the most important suppliers of high-standard bearing steel for well-known bearing manufacturing companies at home and abroad. The steel for railway bearings produced has passed the certification of railway customers in many countries.

Schaeffler Group is a world-renowned supplier of automotive and industrial products. It has two R&D centers in Anting, Shanghai and Changsha, Hunan, and 10 factories in Taicang, Nanjing, Suzhou, Yinchuan, and Xiangtan in China. The company has two railway bearing production lines in Yinchuan and Nanjing. In 2002, the Yinchuan factory production line was officially put into operation. It mainly produces metric and imperial railway axle box bearings, which are used in railway locomotives, trucks and subways. In 2017, Schaeffler's high-end railway bearings The localization project was launched in Nanjing factory, which mainly produces axle box bearings for locomotives, subways and high-speed rails. Schaeffler Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. was established in Shanghai in 2006 and is responsible for the research and development of Schaeffler products as well as sales and after-sales service in mainland China.

The two parties have cooperated for more than 20 years, and the products developed have been applied in batches in many industrial fields. This signing is the embodiment of deepening strategic cooperation between the two parties and continuing to complement each other's advantages. The main purpose is to strengthen the layout of the two parties in the research and development, production and application of advanced materials for railway bearings, to empower the development of the industrial chain, and to respond to the localization of end customers Requirements, to further shorten the delivery cycle, improve the quality of local services.

About Railway Bearings

Railway bearings mainly refer to axle boxes, gearbox bearings and traction motor bearings used in bogie systems of high-speed EMUs, railway freight cars, subways, light rails, trams, locomotives and other rail vehicles. , An important guarantee for safe transportation.

FAG also supply: 

Radial ball bearings

-- Angular contact ball bearings

-- Deep Groove Ball Bearing

-- Four-point contact ball bearings

-- Self-aligning ball bearings

-- Spindle bearings

-- Thin section bearings

Radial roller bearings

-- Barrel roller bearings

-- Cylindrical roller bearings

-- Needle Roller Bearings

-- Spherical roller bearings

-- Tapered roller bearings

Other rolling bearings

-- Bearings for screw drives

-- Crossed roller bearing

-- Rotary table bearings

-- Slewing rings

-- Track rollers bearing, backup rollers bearing and cam rollers bearings

-- Radial insert ball bearings and housing units

-- Belt tension pulleys

Radial insert ball bearings

Housing units

-- Roller chain idler sprocket units

-- Bearing housings

-- SNS plummer block housing

-- SAF500 pillow block housing

-- Split CRB housing

Spherical Plain bearings

-- Maintenance-free plain bearings

-- Plain bearings requiring maintenance