Jan 29 2013
On January 14, 2013, PEER celebrated the Grand Opening of its Research and Development Center and its new PEER Mechanical Parts Turning Factory in Xinchang, Zhejiang, China.
Grand Opening Festivities at the PEER Bearing Research and Development Center, Xinchang, Zhejiang, China on January 14, 2013. (PRNewsFoto/PEER Bearing)
PEER employees were joined by customers and local government officials to help celebrate these two new important additions to the PEER Bearing manufacturing family and increasing its commitment to expanding globally in its target industries. The festivities included inaugural speeches from PEER employees and its parent company employees from SKF followed by tours of the new facilities.
"The PEER Research and Development Center is a new facility for PEER featuring the ability to test a larger product size range, an expansion in research equipment and enhanced work flow. This new capability represents a new "weapon" for PEER in the highly-competitive global bearing market. This investment demonstrates PEER's commitment to the growth of the PEER brand globally." As quoted by Xianyga Luo, PEER's Engineering and R & D Director.
"I strongly believe that this investment of PEER on the Heat Treatment and Turning facility will support PEER to ensure our customers receive the best service, higher flexibility and providing more reliable solutions. It reinforces our capabilities that serve PEER's strategy to further strengthen our market positions in our targeted industries." As quoted by Patrick Tong , President PEER.
About the Research and Development Center:
PEER's Research and Development organization is dedicated to the creation of products specifically for individual customer applications, development of new products to satisfy industry needs, evaluation of products to measure performance and reporting fact-based results to support PEER's full product line.
In addition, the R&D team will also collaborate with our manufacturing plants to support and validate cost reduction concepts, an important element to ensure PEER's global competitiveness. The facility is 1,200 square meters and employs 27 of engineers and technicians. The services that Research and Development Center provides are:
- Product Development
- Materials Research
- Advanced Calculation Tools to predict Bearing performance
- Product Testing
- Product Performance Analysis