Shaanxi HANDE Axle Co., Ltd was jointly invested and built up by Weichai Power Co., Ltd. & Shaanxi Automobile Group Co., Ltd on March 23th, 2003, with its predecessor as axle plant of Shaanxi Automobile Manufacturing Factory. The company is classified as high-tech enterprise, consisting of two plants in Xi’an City and Baoji City, which totally covers20 hectares for workshop area. It has over 3,800 staff members, including more than 600 engineers andintermediate level technicians. The company registered capital is 52 million USD and annual sales revenue is over 806 million USD.
HANDE has been awarded as Top 500 China Machinery Enterprises and China 100 Best Auto Parts Enterprises for many years. In 2007, HANDE axle was honored as China Top Brand Product. In 2009, HANDE trademark was honored as the China Well-known Trademark. In the year of 1984, 1999 and 2009, 5T SX2150 and 7T SX2190 military off-road vehicles with HANDE axle assy. participated in the parade celebrations of 35th, 50th and 60th National Day Anniversary, which got commendation by the State Council and Central Military Committee.
Presently,HANDE’s main products include: 5.5T-16T steering front axles, 10T-35T hub reduction axles, 9T-13T single reduction axles, 5T-13T steering driving front axles and 5T-16T tag axles. The products have 76 types and over 2700models, covering four series as heavy & medium truck axles, construction axles, bus axles, off-road axles. Among which, the hub reduction axles and single reduction axles are in the leading position in China domestic market relying on the unique technical advantage, excellent loading capability and transmission torque.
HANDE keeps up with international axle industry development and exclusively introduced the international advanced axle technique in the year of 1984 and 2004 respectively. By years of introduction, research, absorption and re-innovation, HANDE technique keepsits leading position in the industry as always.On June 18th, 2007, HANDE exported its technique to India as technical license, which achieves the first technique export of China automobile assembly, andcreates a new model of implementing international brand strategy for HANDE and also for China domestic automobile enterprises. This case marks the breakthrough of China automobile manufacturing industry from exporting products to exportingtechnique.
Since the year of 2000, more than 322 million USD has been cumulatively invested into technical improvement, production scale enlargement and company strength enhancement. So far, HANDE has the annual production capacity of 550,000 axles as well as one national axle test center and a matching trial production workshop, which offers a strong R&D power and team for HANDE.
As per the service concept of Customer Satisfaction, over 1,100 appointed service stations spreading all over the country have been always providing comprehensive, efficient and warm service to customers. Based on the concept of providing customers with more reliable and efficient axles, HANDE has established over 60 domestically advanced manufacturing lines for axle housing, main carrier case, gangway case, hub reduction case, diff case, hub, I beam, knuckle and etc., as well as axle assy. and painting, in which axle housing line adopts automatic manufacturing line, flexible manufacturing unit and whole-housing finished machining process.It has greatly improved machining accuracy and efficiency, and met requirements of high volume and various design. Upon the spindle welding, HANDE adopts the internationally advanced electron beam welding and friction welding to ensure quality and efficiency. Regarding assembly, automatic measure and screw technique makes the products more reliable and stable.
HANDE focuses on basic management promotion as always by implementing ERP, Lean Production (TPS), Comprehensive Budget Management, Excellent Performance, 6 Sigma, etc. to improve the management level;By the certification of ISO/TS16949, environment/professional healthy safe management system and China national military standardto greatlyenhance the QC management level; By building up excellent enterprise tocontinuously strengthen the cohesion and core competence.
HANDE takes domestic market as basis and at the same time has the whole world in view.To provide more reliable and efficient axle products for global customers and create a better life for staffs as the mission of the company, it adheres to the strategy of Insistingon technical advance and internationalization, Strengthening the 3 major business parts and Realizing the 1.6 billion USD target. Now, HANDE has built up a very good and stable cooperation relationship with over ten OEM manufacturers in the domestic market. In the international market, the axle assy.products have been batch supplied to over ten regions & countries throughout Europe, Asia, and North America, etc. The export volume has been ranking China No.1 stably for years.
Relying on stable product quality and strong enterprise strength, HANDE maintains an output doubling growth rate for the past years and has realized leapfrog development. In 2012, the production and sales volume of all kinds of axle assemblies is around 300,000 units, with the revenue of 670million USD. Till the end of the 12th Five Year plan, HANDE will become a modern giant axle manufacturing base with strong R&D, leading technique, fine facilities&equipments, and top level management, the output value will exceed 1.6 billion USD.