About Wafangdian Bearing Group

Manufacturing and R&D heritage since 1938

The official group profile describes its founding year, manufacturing bases and product range.

The official profile states that Wafangdian Bearing Group was established in 1938, has nine manufacturing bases, and produces more than 20,000 bearing specifications across ten categories.

These are group-level facts, not website stock, catalogue coverage or a current factory supply commitment. The source was accessed on 6 October 2026; this is not a claimed publication date.

Group product range and purchasing checks

The official product centre lists multiple bearing categories. Review full designations, suffixes and source versions.

The official group product centre lists deep groove, angular contact and self-aligning ball bearings, and cylindrical, tapered and spherical roller bearings. This website’s catalogue is a source-checked subset, not the complete group range or stock.

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Group technical services and website contact scope

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The group’s official service page describes R&D, manufacturing, mounting and dismounting, and condition monitoring. These capabilities belong to Wafangdian Bearing Group.

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Wafangdian Bearing Group · Official company profile

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ZWZ has 9 manufacturing bases, 10 business divisions, 26 wholly-owned and holding branch companies and subsidiaries globally. ZWZ owns two bearing brands, ZWZ and KRW. The company adopts international standards and can produce more than 20,000 specifications of bearing products in ten categories with various precision levels from 20mm inner diameter to 16m outer diameter, which are mainly used in industrial equipments, railway transportation, automotive vehicles, wind power and special applications. ZWZ has a national large-scale bearing engineering and technology research center, a national enterprise technology center, a bearing inspection and test center, and overseas R&D centers in Europe and the United States, that has established 8 technology innovation platforms concerning simulating calculation, materials, lubrication, inspection and so on.

Wafangdian Bearing Group · Official technology centres

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China R&D Center

ZWZ Group National Large Bearing Engineering Technology Research Center, Wafangdian Bearing Group Co., Ltd. Technology Center, ZWZ Group Testing and Experiment Center, "National Large Bearing Engineering Technology Research Center" was established in 2009 with the approval of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and was established in 2013.It was formally named after the acceptance of the Ministry of Science and Technology in November 2011. It is the only large-scale bearing engineering center in China's bearing industry that has been approved by the state. The engineering technology center takes the leading technology of the bearing industry and the development and application of key technologies as the core, and takes the design and development, theoretical research, material research, and testing of large-scale precision heavy-duty high-speed bearings as the main research direction to improve product accuracy and performance.

German R&D Center

ZWZ German R&D Center located in Schweinfurt Industrial Zone, Germany, implements the strategic idea of "high-end and internationalization", optimizes overseas market layout, builds European service network, efficiently integrates international resources, and deepens the strategic policy of global cooperation. Provide new impetus for ZWZ Group to further update its business philosophy, enhance innovation capabilities and high-quality development. The European R&D center focuses on product design and technical services, as well as marketing. Recruit technical experts in automotive bearings, industrial bearings, railway bearings, wind power bearings, etc., complement the advantages of domestic engineering technology centers, and build a complete research and development system. Focus on the forward-looking and applicability of the product, and quickly improve the bushing the research and development level and the construction of the research and development platform lay a solid foundation to ensure that the ZWZ Group becomes a global bearing company with international competitiveness.

American R&D Center

ZWZ American R&D Center was established in March 2015 and is located in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Mainly serving the American automotive bearing market, providing market customers with product development and design, testing and testing services. The center is the first overseas inspection and test center of ZWZ. It is a center for testing and testing automotive bearings in accordance with international standards. It is also the most advanced automotive bearing testing and testing center in the world. The center has complete bearing life testing machines, bearing testing and measurement equipment, and has functions such as product design, simulation calculation, life testing, failure analysis, and customer engineering services. It provides localized technical services for North American customers in the first time. It is an important technical support force for ZWZ Group to develop North American automotive bearing projects and business, and it is also the main base for ZWZ Group to gradually develop into the global automotive bearing industry and the management hub for expanding overseas markets.