A Dörries vertical turning machine has gone to Baotou and nine machines from Starrag’s Berthiez, Dörries and Heckert product ranges to the new factory in Huai’an, which plays an important role in the further expansion. 

The facts also reflect this: NGC invested around five billion renminbi (exchange rate in July 2023: 650 million euros) in the first phase of the new plant: A factory for 1,000 employees was built on an area of 315 hectares. About 45 soccer fields in size (320,000 m2) is the production area where NGC installed 560 machine tools, of which about one in three is a high-tech machine from abroad, machining with the highest precision. The Starrag machines also play an important role here (see also: Starrag machinery at NGC). They are used for machining the complex structures of cast components for wind power transmissions. The Starrag machines already meet the high quality requirements for components for 20 MW gearboxes in the first production phase. Satisfied comment from NGC plant senior management: “This is a strong guarantee of the highest gear stability.”

This positive response to the nine newcomers in Huai’an points to the proven and long-standing cooperation between NGC and Starrag. “Once again, we were able to individually adapt the machine configurations to the wishes and requirements of our Chinese customer,” says Dipl.-Ing. Hubert Erz, Senior Consultant Sales Renewables at Starrag, with satisfaction. “In teamwork, we jointly developed machines in the right sizes and with the right configuration in each case for the production of new, customised components for the wind power drive train. We are now looking forward to continuing our trusting and successful cooperation with a view to China’s carbon neutral future, in which we are happy to accompany NGC with our know-how and production technology.”