China News Agency, Changsha, March 29 (Reporter Liu Shuangshuang) The first batch of axles exported by China Railway Manufacturing Corporation to Europe was officially shipped to Germany on the China-Europe train station at the Zhuzhou North Station in Hunan on the 29th.
This project was initiated by Zhuzhou CRRC Tianli Forging Co., Ltd., a professional forging company owned by CRRC, in 2017. In March 2019, it reached a strategic cooperation agreement with European customers to jointly participate in international market competition. After more than a year of technical exchanges, business negotiations, research and development, trial production trials, the first batch of axle contract orders were finally reached.
In all rolling stock components, the axle is buried under the huge body, but it is a key part of the vehicle, which requires extremely high precision.
Han Jun, Chairman of Zhuzhou CRRC Tianli Forging Co., Ltd., introduced that these axles involve a variety of models. In addition to meeting the EU ’s most stringent axle product acceptance standards and the European Union ’s 10 million fatigue tests and other rigid requirements, they also require raw materials The technology innovation and process optimization have been carried out in the entire process and will be applied to more models in the future to serve global customers.
During the epidemic, the company used "German time" to make business negotiations with customers; the Spring Festival holiday began to fully deploy epidemic prevention work, set up an emergency command center to ensure safe and orderly resumption of work and production.
Zhuzhou CRRC Tianli Forging Co., Ltd. is the first professional axle manufacturing company in China that has developed the European standard EA4T axle, has independent intellectual property rights, and has a full range of alloy steel axles that have passed CRCC certification. Up to now, the company has produced more than 7,500 EMU axles in more than 300 electric trains in more than 10 countries, with a maximum operating mileage of more than 2.5 million kilometers. (Finish)