Taiyuan Heavy Machinery Group Co. Ltd. (China; website) recently completed its new oil film bearing plant, under the Oil Film Bearing division.

THMC is a widely diversified heavy manufacturing company, with divisions involved in areas such as smelting, rolling mills, satellite launch towers, coal gasification, casting, forging, railroad wheels and axles, and bearings.

The intensively climate-controlled bearing manufacturing facility covers more than 11,000 square meters. Produced under the TZ / Taizong brand, the company's oil film bearings range in size from 160mm to 2,000mm OD.

Taiyuan claims approximately 95% of China's market for large oil film bearings, and exports to a number of countries from Europe to South America.

The company's primary application for large oil film bearings is continuous casting steel rolling mills, an almost insatiable market as China's steelmaking sector continues industrial history's fastest growth.