# Yiyang Rubber & Plastic Machinery partners with Fraunhofer for digital manufacturing base

Yiyang Rubber & Plastic Machinery Group and Fraunhofer signed a strategic cooperation agreement on August 15, 2017, to build an intelligent rubber machinery digital manufacturing base in Yiyang, Hunan, with an investment of 500 million yuan.

- Type: Partnership
- Announced: 2017-08-15
- Where: Yiyang, Hunan province, China
- Value: $75.0M (500.0M CNY)
- Status: announced
- Products: rubber machinery
- Sectors: [Industrial Machinery](https://endata.com/sectors/industrial-machinery.md)

## Companies

- [Yiyang Rubber & Plastic Machinery Group](https://endata.com/companies/17543.md)
- [Fraunhofer](https://endata.com/companies/17544.md) (partner)

## Sources

- [en.tireworld.com.cn](http://en.tireworld.com.cn/cnews/2017824/4892.html), 2017-08-24: "The signing ceremony for Industry 4.0 strategic cooperation between Yiyang Rubber & Plastic Machinery Group and Germany-based Fraunhofer was held Aug. 15 in Yiyang, Hunan province."

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