Japan’s
Nidec Machine Tool Corporation has announced that the construction of a new factory being built by its subsidiary Nidec Machine Tool (Zhejiang) Corp in the city of Pinghu, Zhejiang Province, China, has been completed and now undertaking full-scale operation. Constructed to establish a prompt machine tool supply system to meet China’s domestic needs for cars, robots, and industrial machines — among others — this new, three-floor factory covers an area of about 66,000m
2.
The new factory houses a machine tool assembly area, a component machining area, offices, and a 600m
2 showroom that will exhibit products made in the new factory, as well as those produced by the Nidec Group’s machine tool companies in Japan and elsewhere. The main products to be produced in the new Pinghu factory will include a variety of gear-manufacturing machines, horizontal machining centres, and gear-cutting tools. These products will be made by Nidec employees who have been trained in Japan, to ensure the same level of quality as those products made in the company’s Shiga factory.
Nidec Machine Tool Corp said the new factory will also serve as a point of contact for the company’s personnel in Japan to procure products from China. “By sharing supply chain-related information with other Nidec Group companies in Pinghu and developing new business partners, Nidec Machine Tool (Zhejiang) Corp will help enhance the Nidec Group’s procuring and purchasing capabilities.
Furthermore, by reinforcing its ties with Pama Shanghai Machine Tool Co Ltd and Takisawa Mechatronics (Zhejiang) Ltd — two of the Nidec Group’s machine tool companies making products locally in China ahead of Nidec Machine Tool (Zhejiang) Corporation — the new factory will work united with the rest of the Nidec Group to achieve ‘the largest share in the Chinese market’.”
Nidec was established in Kyoto, Japan, in 1973 by its chairman Shigenobu Nagamori. In 1979, Nidec became the first company in the world to successfully commercialise a direct drive spindle motor for HDDs (hard disc drives) based on a brushless DC motor. The company now has more than 300 subsidiaries employing over 100,000 people throughout the world and annual sales exceeding $13 billion.