International Large Bearing Brands Gather in China's Land Market

Liu Enshi said: "At present, eight foreign brands have established about 20 companies in the country. The eight brands include Sweden's SKF, Schaeffler, and Timken of the United States. ) The company, Japan's NSK (NSK), NTN, Jieteget, Fujitsu, and Meiya. The share of foreign brands' bearings in China's passenger car bearing market has been increasing year by year, mainly focusing on high precision. High value-added products."

Relevant data show that most of the eight major brands entering China have more than one manufacturing company in China. Among them, SKF, which ranks first in the world's bearing industry, has companies in Dalian, Shanghai and Wuhu, Anhui. Said: "At the end of the 20th century, SKF set up bearing companies in Shanghai and Dalian respectively to produce bearing products in China. Today, China has become SKF's fourth-largest market in the world and its annual sales increase by an average of 30%." At present, SKF is increasing the pace of expansion in China. Last year, a new technology center was added to the new plant in Shanghai's Jiading District.

Local bearing enterprise competition pattern

According to relevant data from the China Bearing Industry Association, there are approximately 4,000 to 5,000 bearings manufacturing enterprises in the country, and there are 1750 in a certain scale (with a sales volume of more than 5 million yuan). Due to the relatively high requirements for automotive bearings, the country can now give the automotive industry Supporting a total of more than 30 bearing companies.

Liu Enshi said: "At present, the automotive bearing industry has formed many leading suppliers represented by tile shafts, Luo shafts, Hashi axis, universal money tide, Yoshikatsu shaft, and Hailin bearing factory. The overall development is relatively fast. But with the world Compared with bearing powerful countries, China's bearing industry still has a large gap. Its main performance is high precision, and the proportion of high-tech products and high value-added products is low. The author learned from the China Bearing Industry Association that local brand bearings are commercially available in China. Bearing market share is high, of which 1/3 is high-precision products.

Chen Guozhen told the author: “The proportion of high-end products such as tile shafts, Luosha shafts, and Hasha shafts in local bearing companies is relatively high, and product quality is stable and reliable, while general enterprise products are mainly used in the low-end and mid-range automobile markets.” Wang Lushun said. In the aspect of truck bearing support, the domestic trucks mainly use local products. In the bearing assembly of passenger cars, most of the small-displacement and low-grade cars use local products, while the top-grade cars mainly use foreign brands.