On February 15, the signing ceremony of the cooperation agreement for the project of bearing eco-industrial park in Dalian Jinpu New Area was held in the Administrative Committee of Dalian Jinpu New Area (Development Zone Office). Wang Shouyu, Secretary of the Party and Work Committee of Dalian Jinpu New Area, Lv Dongsheng, Director of the Management Committee of Jinpu New Area, and comrades in charge of relevant departments of the Party and Work Committee, comrades in charge of relevant units of the Management Committee, and representatives of the enterprises to be located attended the signing ceremony and signed the “Agreement of Intention to Settle in Dalian Jinpu New Area Bearing Eco-Industrial Park” on site. Wang Hui, President of SKF China and Northeast Asia, Jin Xin, Vice President of SKF China, Wu Fangji, Vice President of SKF China and other representatives of SKF were invited to witness the signing.
Signing of the Agreement of Intention to Move into the Bearing Eco-Industrial Park in Dalian Jinpu New Area
Dalian Jinpu New District Bearing Eco-Industrial Park is led by the Management Committee of Dalian Jinpu New District and is adjacent to SKF’s new factory, with a planned area of 300 mu. Dalian Ragu Technology Co., Ltd, Shandong Jindi Precision Machinery Technology Co., Ltd, Zhejiang Chengben Bearing Roller Co., Ltd and Jiangsu Xingye Roller Technology Co.
Chain expansion group, leading traction to add momentum
SKF has a long history with Dalian, and SKF was one of the early enterprises to “attract big and strong” to JMP New Area, and started to build a production base in JMP New Area as early as 2005. At present, SKF Dalian production base has already completed and put into operation the third phase of the project, and the fourth phase of the plant and the R&D centre are progressing in an orderly manner, with construction about to start. The total output value of the four phases of the project is expected to reach RMB 5 billion upon completion of production. SKF Dalian production base will become the largest industrial bearing production base of SKF Group in China, helping SKF to base on JMP New Area and serve the whole country and the world extensively.
Wang Hui, President of SKF China and Northeast Asia (left) and Wang Shouyu, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Dalian Jinpu New Area (right)
“The establishment of the JMP New Area Bearing Eco-Industrial Park will not only help SKF enhance localization and respond quickly to market demand, but also bring together advanced productivity in the bearing industry and coalesce it into a synergy, pulling the bearing industry to accelerate transformation and upgrading on all fronts.” Wang Hui, president of SKF China and Northeast Asia, said, “SKF is honored to witness the launch of this project and will give full play to its influence in the industry chain, drive the synergistic development of the upstream and downstream of the industry chain with more advanced manufacturing technologies and global resources, and drive the transformation and upgrading of the industry in the direction of high-tech content and high value-added products.”
Gathering the strength of the industry, the industry “gathers” changes for development
JMP New District has always been the most important undertaking area for manufacturing industries in Dalian, and an important growth pole leading the comprehensive revitalisation of the northeast region. In recent years, JMP New District has taken “smart manufacturing” as its leader and industrial synergy as an important focus point, vigorously cultivating industrial clusters in key industries and driving enterprises in related and supporting industries to accelerate high-quality development.
The industrial park will introduce more bearing manufacturing-related enterprises in the future, enhance the level of Dalian’s bearing industry and supporting capabilities, support industrial transformation and upgrading and the construction of industrial chains and supply chains, improve the competitiveness of Dalian’s high-end bearing industry, and build a high-end bearing industry cluster in Dalian.
In the future, SKF, as a leading enterprise in the local bearing industry, will actively play a traction-driving role and promote closer cooperation between the upstream and downstream. It will also “strengthen the chain and solidify the chain” by building R&D centres and introducing cutting-edge technologies for intelligent manufacturing, helping supporting enterprises within the industry chain to enhance the technological content and added value of their own products and activate the industry’s endogenous power in all aspects.
(Source: PR Newswire)