After decades of rapid development, China's bearing industry has formed an independent and complete industrial system. The bearing output has reached 19.6 billion sets, ranking third in the world. The smallest bearing diameter produced in China is 0.6 mm, and the largest is 11 meters. There are about 10,000 manufacturing enterprises in China's bearing industry, including more than 1,300 enterprises above designated size, mainly distributed in 9 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country. Its scope of application covers the main areas of the national economy. According to the statistics of main business income, the top 100 companies account for 42.8% of the whole industry, and the top 1000 companies account for 90% of the whole industry. There are about 400,000 employees in the bearing industry. The implementation of the innovation-driven strategy has significantly improved the product development capabilities of the entire industry.
China's bearing industry has important regional development characteristics, mainly forming five bearing industry clusters in Wafangdian, Luoyang, Jiangsu, eastern Zhejiang and Liaocheng, Shandong.
1. Wafangdian Bearing Industry Base
Wafangdian Bearing Industry Base is the largest bearing industry base in China. The base relies on China's largest bearing manufacturer - ZWZ. It was founded in 1938, and the first set of industrial bearings in New China was born here. ZWZ is the birthplace of China's bearing industry. It has nine major product manufacturing bases at home and abroad, 25 wholly-owned, holding and joint-stock subsidiaries, a total of 28 manufacturing factories, 118 various high-end production lines, and nearly 10,000 employees. By 2021 Annual operating income of 4.639 billion yuan
ZWZ mainly supports major national assembly, adopts international standards, and can independently produce bearing products of various precision levels and specifications. With two brands of ZWZ and KRW, the main products are supporting bearings for major technical equipment, metallurgical and mining bearings, wind turbine bearings, railway truck bearings, petroleum machinery bearings, precision machine tool bearings, rail transit bearings, automotive vehicle bearings, wind power new energy bearings , cement mechanical bearings and non-standard bearings, etc.
Wafangdian Bearing Industry Base mainly produces all kinds of medium and large bearings. The production enterprises include:
- Wafangdian Bearing Group Co., Ltd. --ZWZ
- Dalian Metallurgical Bearing Co., Ltd. -- DYZV
- Wafangdian Guangyang Bearing Co., Ltd. -- WYS
- Wafangdian Jinfeng Bearing Manufacturing Co., Ltd -- WBJF
- Wafangdian Yuandong Bearing Corporation Limited -- ZHJ
- Dalian Guangyang Bearing Manufacturing Co., Ltd. -- ZWA
2. Luoyang Bearing Industry Base
Luoyang LYC Bearing Co., Ltd. founded in 1954, LYC Bearing has now become a comprehensive bearing manufacturing enterprise with the largest production scale and the strongest supporting services in my country's bearing industry.
In the process of supporting high-end equipment, LYC has always been at the forefront of China's bearing industry, such as military bearings, rail transit bearings, shield machine main bearings, CT machine bearings, marine engineering bearings, and radio telescope bearings. In 2020, LYC's main business income will be 4.23 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 37%, and it currently ranks first in the comprehensive technical strength of China's bearing industry.
LYC has established a marketing model in which the sales head office and various business departments, subsidiaries, and production plants are in parallel. There are 48 regional sales representative offices across the country, with nearly 300 sales agents, forming a marketing system in which regional and industry marketing are developed simultaneously, and regional representative offices and dealers develop in coordination. In the international market, the company has subsidiaries or offices in the United States, India, Vietnam and other countries, and its products are exported to more than 70 countries and regions such as the United States, Germany, Italy, South Korea, India and Vietnam.
The bearing products in the base are mainly medium-sized, large-sized and extra-large-scale major equipment bearings, which are widely used in automobiles, railway vehicles, metallurgical machinery, mining machinery, petroleum equipment, machine tools, electric power, home appliances, aerospace and other fields.
Representative enterprises in Luoyang Bearing Industry Base include Luozhou Bearing (Luoyang LYC Bearing Co., Ltd.), Luoyang Bearing Research Technology, Luoyang Luoling Bearing, Xinqianglian, etc.
3. Yangtze River Delta (Jiangsu) Bearing Industry Base
The Yangtze River Delta is the main region for bearing production in my country, and the bearing production is mainly distributed in Suzhou, Changzhou, Wuxi, Shanghai and other places. Bearing products mainly include deep groove ball bearings, cylindrical roller bearings, spherical roller bearings, etc. Bearings produced in this region are mainly used in light industry.
Jiangsu Nanfang Precision Industry Co., Ltd. was established in 1988 by Mr. Shi Jianwei. The company is located in Changzhou, an important city in the Yangtze River Delta region with the most active economy in China. Over the past 30 years, the company has been committed to the R&D, production and sales of needle roller bearings, one-way clutches, and auto parts for automobiles, motorcycles, and industrial fields. At present, most of the customers are Fortune 500 companies and leading companies in subdivided industries, and the customers are distributed in 36 countries and regions around the world. The company invests 5% of its turnover in research and development every year, making the company's product technology, design, process, project management, and technical benchmarking a leading position in the industry. In addition, the company has a leading test center in China, which has a variety of working condition simulation test conditions, and realizes the ability to develop synchronously with customers.
There are more than 130 bearing manufacturers above designated size in the Jiangsu Bearing Industry Base. Representative companies in the base include Jiangsu Nanfang Bearing Co., Ltd., Wuxi Huayang Bearing Co., Ltd., Suzhou Bearing Factory Co., Ltd., Changzhou Guangyang Bearing Co., Ltd., Jiangsu Liandong Bearing Co., Ltd.
4. Zhejiang Bearing Industry Base
Zhejiang bearing industry base is located in Changshan County, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Shaoxing as the core, adjacent to Jiangsu bearing industry base in the north. Among them, Changshan County is an important town in Zhejiang Province. Changshan County Bearing has a history of more than 40 years, and there are more than 100 bearing manufacturers. Most of the products are small and medium, medium, mini deep groove ball bearings, featured products include automotive bearings, motor bearings, office support, electric tool bearings, agricultural machinery bearings, is our largest export bearing and export bearing car, forging production base.
Bearing production in the base began in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. After decades of development, Zhejiang Bearing Industry Base has gradually developed into an important bearing industry base in my country. There are 348 bearing enterprises above designated size in the base, with annual sales of 9.6 billion yuan. Xinchang City is mainly engaged in the production of bearing blanks and is known as the "Hometown of Bearings". Cixi City is mainly engaged in the production of finished bearings, and the output of bearings accounts for 60% of the province.
Renben Co., Ltd. is a professional bearing manufacturer. It has nine major bearing production bases in Wenzhou, Hangzhou, Wuxi, Shanghai, Nanchong, Wuhu, Huangshi, etc., producing 30,000 bearings of various types ranging from 1mm to 6000mm in diameter. The annual output of bearings exceeds 1.8 billion sets. Products are widely used in automobiles, home appliances, motors, motorcycles, construction machinery, power tools, agricultural and forestry machinery, textile machinery, industrial robots, wind power, medical equipment and other industries, providing reliable products and solutions for customers in more than 40 industries.
Zhejiang Wuzhou Xinchun Group Co., Ltd. is a comprehensive enterprise group integrating R&D, manufacturing and service. It mainly produces high-end precision parts such as bearings and auto parts. In 2016, Wuzhou New Year was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange with a stock code of 603667. At present, Wuzhou New Year has multiple production bases in Zhejiang, Anhui, Sichuan, Dalian and Mexico, and has sales companies in the United States, Poland, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy and other places.
Zhejiang Bearing Industry Base represents companies such as Renben Group, Tianma Group, Wanxiang Qianchao Bearing, Wuzhou New Year, Cixing Group, Huanchi Group, etc.
5. Liaocheng Bearing Industry Base
Liaocheng Bearing Industry Base was formed in the early 1980s, and it is the largest bearing cage production base and the largest bearing trade base in my country. The base is centered on Yandian Town, Linqing City, which belongs to Liaocheng City, Shandong Province, and has formed a bearing sales, production and assembly center centered on the Yandian bearing market in Linqing City; a bearing maintenance center centered on Zhengjia Town, Dongchangfu District. production bases; bearing ring production bases centered on Qingshui Town, Guanxian City, and Beitao, and steel ball production bases centered on Dong'e
Liaocheng Bearing Industry Base has more than 180 enterprises above designated size, with annual sales of 3.8 billion yuan, nearly 100,000 employees, and annual production of more than 2,000 varieties (models) of bearings, with an output of 200,000 sets of bearings and seven series of bearings. 1.8 billion pairs of bearing cages, involving more than 600 types, and producing 40,000 tons of bearing steel balls of various types.
Liaocheng Bearing Industry Base mainly produce All kinds of Rolling Bearings and non stardard bearings, steel balls and cages. Representative bearing enterprises in Liaocheng Bearing Industry Base include Shandong Bote Bearing Co., Ltd. and Shandong Yujie Bearing Manufacturing Co., Ltd., among which Dong'e Steel Ball Group is the largest steel ball manufacturer in China, with an annual output of nearly 100,000 steel balls and rolling elements 20 billion tablets, annual sales revenue of 600 million yuan.
