Cixi bearing industry Baotuan market

(Reporter Hu Jianjiang) Xiangshidi Village is a small local village in Cixi, but it is also a well-known manufacturer of micro bearings in the country and abroad. There are more than 200 companies that gather bearings and accessories, and manufacture automation equipment for bearings. In December 2008, the Cixi Yokogawa Xiangshi Bearing Industry Association was established. After two years of development, the Cixi Yokogawa Xiangshi Bearing Industry Association has 58 member companies including bearings and accessories and bearing automation equipment manufacturing. Last year, the annual production value was 1.5 billion yuan. About half of the entire village's bearing production value.

In recent years, in order to create a fair and competitive market environment, the industry association has invited the staff of industry and commerce and taxation departments, Shanghai rust prevention experts to teach members of the relevant knowledge about the operation of laws and regulations and financial regulations, and to organize member companies to go to other companies. Learn advanced production technology and management innovation ideas. Through learning, many companies have transformed their relationship from the lower end of their industrial chain into research cooperation and brand marketing, which has enhanced their core competitiveness.

In May last year, Xiangshi Bearing Industry Association once organized member enterprises to Yantai Town, Linqing City, Shandong Province, a larger bearing distribution center in China, and collectively purchased steel balls, cages, and other matching parts, and obtained price concessions “speaking rights”. , greatly reducing the purchase costs of member companies. In April of this year, Xiangshi Bearing Industry Association also organized member companies to “learn the Bible” in Luoyang, seeking technical cooperation with China Bearing Research Institute, Henan University of Science and Technology and Luoyang Tight Machine Tool Factory, project development, talent introduction, etc. Independent innovation level. In September of this year, Donghuang, Jinpeng, Sunrise Xilwo, Shenli and other key enterprises organized a group to participate in the International Bearing Expo, opened up domestic and foreign markets, and launched the regional bearing brand.

Due to the intensified market competition and the large fluctuations in raw material prices, the low-, small-, and bulk-blocked economies have been transformed and upgraded into modern industrial clusters. The Xiangshi bearing industry is also facing new challenges and new opportunities. From April this year, Xiangshi Bearing Industry Association established "Axle Bearing Information" to build a platform for information exchange among member companies.

With the increasingly close correlation and dependence of regional economy, cooperation among enterprises has become an inevitable choice for regional economic transformation and development. Xiangshi Bearing Industry Association organizes member companies to cooperate and cooperate to realize the dual-engine interaction effect of industrialization and urbanization, and bring together Purchasing and joint marketing are the direction of cooperation, integrating resources, realizing industrial chain cooperation and “production, research, and research” cooperation. After the implementation of the “Joint Operation, Baotuan Development” implementation plan, the joint procurement model of the Association has gradually matured. The joint procurement scope has expanded from the original bearing steel to the bearing production equipment.