Meckwell has broken ground on a new 5,000 m² manufacturing facility adjacent to its Tianjin plant, scheduled for commissioning in Q4 2025. The expansion will double its annual ESP system output capacity.
Danfoss will start mass production later in 2025 at its campus in Nanjing, Jiangsu, making insulated gate bipolar transistor modules and electric and hybrid power train systems.
Converteam was awarded a contract to supply nine Variable Speed Drive systems to PetroChina for the West-East Gas Pipeline Project in China. The article is dated 3 January 2025.
Kongsberg Maritime will supply propulsion, automation and energy systems for ten platform supply vessels being built by Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding in China for Greek owner Capital Offshore. The contract is valued at about NOK 800 million.
Xinghuo Special Steel began construction on a project to produce 1 billion high-end solenoid valves and pump valve soft magnetic cores per year in Dainan, Xinghua, Jiangsu, on a 100-mu site with planned investment of RMB 1 billion.
Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen is expanding production at its Suzhou site near Shanghai, adding VACUTAP tap-changer capacity available from July 2024 to shorten delivery times in China.
At the Phase II inauguration on November 1, 2023, Schaeffler signed an investment agreement with the Taicang High-Tech Industrial Development Zone for a New Energy Phase III Project.
Schaeffler officially inaugurated the New Energy Phase II Factory at its Taicang manufacturing base in Jiangsu province on November 1, 2023. The plant produces electric motor stators and rotors for new energy vehicles.
Danfoss signed an agreement with the Haiyan county government in Zhejiang to begin building its second campus there. The local government funds the facility, which Danfoss leases and equips itself.
Midea-owned Welling Auto Parts started production on January 6, 2023 at the first phase of its new NEV parts base in Anqing, Anhui province. The base targets 1 million electric compressors, 1.2 million EPS motors and 200,000 drive motors a year.
Webasto opened a new production facility in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, costing about EUR50 million. The plant makes sunroofs, panorama roofs, high-voltage heaters and charging solutions, with capacity for around 2 million roof systems per year.
TBEA won China Southern Power Grid orders worth about 1.75 billion yuan for DC main equipment for the Kunliulong UHV multi-terminal HVDC project, including 1.065 billion yuan to its Shenyang transformer unit and 689 million yuan to its Xinjiang unit.
OMRON announced it will build the second factory of OMRON (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. in Shanghai to expand control equipment and industrial robot capacity, doubling its China production capacity by fiscal 2020. Total investment is JPY1.0 billion.
Miba Power Electronics Group will invest around EUR 10 million in a new high-power resistor production plant in Qingxi near Shenzhen, China. The plant is to employ about 300 people and begin operations in mid-2019.
Austrian technology group Miba plans to invest around EUR 100 million in China over the next four years. Two new plants are being built in Suzhou near Shanghai and Qingxi near Shenzhen.
Piller China received an order for 20MVA of Piller UNIBLOCK diesel rotary UPS systems to protect the Global Foundries and Chengdu Municipality FD-SOI semiconductor ecosystem in Chengdu, China.
Pu Neng has been awarded a contract by Hubei Pingfan Vanadium Energy Storage Technology for a 3 MW / 12 MWh vanadium flow battery, phase 1 of the Hubei Zaoyang 10MW 40MWh storage demonstration project. The contract was signed on October 18, 2017.
Ulstein Design & Solutions was awarded a contract by China Merchants Group to design and supply equipment for an expedition cruise vessel for SunStone Ships, with options for nine more; the ship will be built at China Merchants Heavy Industry and delivery is planned for 2019. Ulstein Power & Control also won the system delivery contract, with equipment delivery in Q1 2018.
Converteam was awarded a contract by PetroChina to supply nine Variable Speed Drives Systems for the West-East Gas Pipeline Project in China. The project is one of China's largest infrastructure projects.