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The eBearing News
October 27, 2005
Nidec and NTN Expand
Fluid Dynamic Bearing Production
copyright © 2005 eBearing Inc.
NTN Corp. (Japan) and Nidec Corp. (Japan; NYSE:
NJ)
announced a new greenfield joint venture company they will form
in Thailand to greatly expand production of fluid dynamic bearings there.
Fluid dynamic bearings are now used in virtually all mass-market computer disk drive spindle and
motor drive systems, with hundreds of millions produced each year. Fluid dynamic bearings replaced
miniature ball bearings in these applications.
article: introduction to fluid film bearings
The new company, NTN-Nidec Thailand Co. Ltd., is being set up in Thailand's Eastern Seaboard
Industrial Estate, Rayong. Of the ¥1.5 billion cost, 60% will be to NTN and 40% to Nidec,
with ownership equaling investment.
Thailand is home to the majority of the world's fluid dynamic bearing production,
and will join NTN-Nidec's existing fluid bearing production facility in Zhejiang, China.
Both locations will produce fluid dynamic bearings for Nidec's 3.5" (envelope dimension) disk
drive motors, and both will source raw materials from NTN Thailand Ltd.
Scheduled to come online in June 2006 at 3 million units per month, the new Thai plant is forecast
to achieve output of 6 million bearings per month by 2008 and 10 million per month by 2009.
By that time, the NTN-Nidec joint manufacturing
capacity across Thailand and China will be more than 16 million bearings per month
and employ more than 1,300 people.
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