On January 8-9, 2024, SKF attended the Weichai New Energy Commercial Vehicle 2024 Global Supply Chain Strategic Partner Conference of China National Heavy Duty Truck Corporation (CNHTC), and won the “Excellent Supplier” award once again for its advanced innovative technology, excellent product quality, and outstanding delivery and service capabilities. On the scene of the conference, the two sides also signed a strategic cooperation agreement, aiming at exerting joint efforts to stimulate chain innovation, exploring and leading industry changes, and working together to create and win the future of sustainable development.
With the theme of “Chain Innovation and Challenges to the Future”, the conference attracted more than 1,000 excellent supply chain partners from all over the world to participate, discuss new ideas for future cooperation, plan a new ecological network of green, resilient and sustainable supply chain, and make plans for leading the industry’s green and innovative development.
China National Heavy Duty Truck (CNHTC) once again defined its strategic partnership with the supply chain in terms of “three communities”: a symbiotic community of destiny, a strategically consistent community of value, and a highly integrated community of research and development.
At the meeting, Chu Hao, President of Automotive Division of SKF China and Northeast Asia, delivered a speech on integrity and cooperation.
China National Heavy Duty Truck (CNHTC) is known in the industry as ‘the fastest growing, most competitive and growing enterprise in the global heavy truck industry’, and we are honoured to be recognised by CNHTC Group. The cooperation between the two parties has been more than ten years. As a strategic partner of CSCA, SKF not only brings the world’s most advanced solutions to CSCA, but also collaborates closely with CSCA in innovation and research and development, in order to meet the application needs of China’s commercial vehicle market and CSCA’s long-term development strategic objectives. In the future, SKF will continue to increase technological innovation and contribute to the future development blueprint and global development ambitions of China National Heavy Duty Truck Corporation (CNHTC) with advanced technology, high-quality products and reliable delivery capability. In the future, the two parties will become a highly integrated R&D community, working together to create, win and develop together.
As a global leader in automotive bearing solutions, SKF not only provides high-quality solutions for SINOTRUK’s electric drive axles, gearboxes and reduction gearboxes, engines, new energy motors and axles, but also jointly develops low-friction and high-efficiency bearing solutions to meet the demand for high-performance and low-energy-consumption development in the commercial vehicle sector. The new drive axle II wheel hub bearing unit jointly developed by the two parties has truly realised the maintenance-free wheel-end whole life cycle, and has become an industry benchmark in the field of wheel-end for heavy trucks.
China is the largest commercial vehicle market in the world, and the goal of China National Heavy Duty Truck (CNHTC) is to move towards the top end of the market and challenge for the top position in the world. The in-depth co-operation between the two parties will not only provide a reference for the co-operation between Chinese commercial vehicle enterprises and global parts and components enterprises, but also promote the continuous upgrading of China’s commercial vehicle market and lead the development of commercial vehicles in Asia and the world.
Long life, meet the whole life cycle of the vehicle maintenance-free, life up to 2 million kilometres or more.
No disassembly, the first international cavity-free maintenance brake disc, bearing unit lifelong disassembly-free.
Low friction, compared with conventional wheel-end solutions, energy loss is reduced by about 55%.
As a global enterprise that has been deeply cultivated in the automotive industry for a hundred years, SKF has not only accumulated various kinds of high-quality products, but also accumulated mature R&D capabilities and strong local market service capabilities in the Chinese market.
SKF’s commercial vehicle bearing production base and global wheel-end R&D centre in China are located one kilometre away from the bridge box of Sinotruck, which can respond to demand efficiently and achieve reliable delivery. The base is located in Jinan, and since the first phase of production was put into operation in 2012, the second phase of the expansion was officially put into operation in May last year. The first phase in Jinan, which has been in operation for many years, was awarded the title of “Green Factory” by Jinan City, and has twice been awarded LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) gold certification. The second phase will be operated in a smarter and cleaner way to increase the production capacity of commercial vehicle products, and at the same time to respond to the development needs of the industry in terms of intelligence and low-carbonisation.
China is the largest commercial vehicle market in the world, and the goal of China National Heavy Duty Truck (CNHTC) is to move towards the top end of the market and challenge for the top position in the world. The in-depth co-operation between the two parties will not only provide a reference for the co-operation between Chinese commercial vehicle enterprises and global parts and components enterprises, but also promote the continuous upgrading of China’s commercial vehicle market and lead the development of commercial vehicles in Asia and the world.