Global Leaders in Wind Turbine Gearbox Manufacturing

Currently, major players in the wind turbine main gearbox industry include Winergy, ZF, NGC, Hangzhou Gear Qianjin, Chongqing Gear Corporation, Southern Aerospace, and Dalian Heavy Industry. A detailed overview of the major companies in the industry is as follows:

1. Winergy: A subsidiary of the Flender Group, its product line includes gearboxes, generators, direct-drive stator blocks, couplings, multi-brand services, and digital solutions. It manufactured its first wind turbine gearbox in 1981 and has delivered wind turbine gearboxes with a cumulative installed capacity of over 175,000 megawatts and over 50,000 wind turbines.

2. ZF: Founded in 1915, it entered the Chinese market in 1981. Its business covers a wide range of sectors, including passenger cars, commercial vehicles, and industrial applications. Through the acquisitions of the wind power businesses of Hansen Transmission and Bosch Rexroth AG in 2011 and 2015, respectively, it has become a world-leading provider of wind turbine drive system solutions, with a cumulative installed base of over 80,000 units, totaling over 180 GW, worldwide.

3. NGC: Founded in 1969, a subsidiary of China High Speed Transmission, its products are widely used in wind power equipment, rail transit, industrial robotics, and other industries. It offers a wide range of wind turbine gearboxes and yaw and pitch control products with power ranging from 1.5MW to over 20MW, backed by a comprehensive service network. Its products are certified by DNV, UL, TUV-NORD, TUV-SUD, CCS, CGC, CQC, ETL, and CE.

4. Hangzhou Gear Qianjin: Founded in 1960, it was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange Main Board in 2010. Its product range encompasses over 1,000 products across ten categories, including marine propulsion systems, construction machinery transmissions, wind power and other new energy gearboxes, agricultural machinery transmissions, powder metallurgy products, automotive transmissions, rail transit transmissions, specialty products, industrial gearboxes, and large, high-precision components. Its main products include a full range of wind turbine speed increasers ranging from 100kW to 5.5MW, with a maximum speed increase ratio of 175.

5. Chongqing Gear Co., Ltd.: Founded in 1997, a subsidiary of China Power, its core business is hardened gear transmissions. Its products are widely used in industries such as marine, offshore engineering, cement and building materials, metal smelting, traditional energy, distributed clean energy, rail transit, construction machinery, oil and gas extraction, and solid waste treatment. The company has successfully developed a series of wind turbine main gearboxes ranging from 200kW to 7MW.

6. Southern Aerospace: Established in 2012, it is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hunan Southern Aerospace Industry Co., Ltd. It primarily leverages advanced aero-engine and helicopter transmission technologies to expand into aero-engine and gas turbine transmissions, military transmissions for aircraft, ships, and weapons, wind power and new energy transmissions, and high-end precision equipment transmissions. Its products include main gearboxes for wind turbines ranging from 1.5MW to 25MW.

7. Dalian Heavy Industry: Established in 1993 and listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange's SME Board in 2008, it currently has nine product lines: metallurgical machinery, lifting machinery, bulk material handling machinery, port machinery, energy machinery, transmission and control systems, marine components, construction machinery, and offshore machinery. It has also developed speed-increasing gearboxes ranging from 1.5MW to 6MW.