·Automobile brake enterprise transformation

With the introduction and advancement of automotive electronics technology, brake system products are also moving towards intelligent and electronic. In the past year, the joint ventures of domestic and foreign parts companies have been commonplace, and the scale of enterprises has gradually expanded. Self-owned brand enterprises are shifting from single brake component manufacturers to brake system assembly suppliers in order to achieve a breakthrough in market share. In 2015, what are the outstanding changes in the domestic brake industry?
[competition pattern]
â–  One of the ways to reproduce the Chinese-foreign joint venture brake company into the joint venture brand high-end passenger car OEM system is to cooperate with foreign component suppliers. On January 26 this year, Longji Machinery announced that it plans to jointly invest in a joint venture with a registered capital of RMB 215 million with Germany Aceway Auto Parts Co., Ltd. Longji Machinery hopes to integrate the production and management resources, customer resources, technology and R&D resources of the two parties through this cooperation, enhance the company's production technology level and management capabilities, and enter the joint venture brand high-end passenger car OEM system. It is reported that Germany's Aceway has many years of experience in providing brake parts for Volkswagen, Audi, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Porsche, Lamborghini and other brands.
On May 8 last year, Dongfeng Technology announced that it intends to establish a joint venture with Knorr-Bremse Systems Asia Pacific (Holdings) Co., Ltd. with a total investment of 175 million yuan. Dongfeng Technology believes that this cooperation can strengthen the development of the brake system business of Dongfeng Technology Commercial Vehicles, and utilize the advantages of the joint venture parties in terms of manpower and technology to expand the business of commercial vehicle brake systems to meet the needs of OEM international development.
This year, there is an urgent need to expand the self-owned brand brake companies of joint ventures or foreign-funded customers, and there will be more exchanges between foreign-owned brake companies that are eager to stabilize and gradually expand their market share in China, and the market will reproduce large-scale Chinese and foreign Joint venture case.
â–  A large number of small and medium-sized brake enterprises will be eliminated from the domestic traditional brake industry, which is the most competitive, especially in the field of disc brakes. It is reported that there are more than a thousand companies engaged in the production of brake discs, brake pads, brake pumps and other accessories in China. In the past few years, a large number of enterprises want to enter the disc brake industry, including drum brake manufacturers, axle companies and other parts and components enterprises of a certain scale, as well as some scattered small enterprises. In fact, most companies belong to homogenization competition and excessive price competition. Some enterprises are small in scale and the level of research and development is slow.
In addition, foreign companies such as Bosch, Wandu, Aidex, WABCO, Knorr, Jude and Merit continue to introduce high-end brake products to China. With the establishment of foreign joint ventures or wholly-owned factories, the localization rate has increased, and the prices of their products have further declined, which has brought considerable pressure to domestic enterprises. The phenomenon of “survival of the fittest” will become more apparent in 2015. Some small and medium-sized brake companies in China will have to withdraw from the market under the brutal competition.
â–  More companies can test the market after the brakes can be imagined, in the Chinese auto market, where the car ownership is rising, how much development space in the after-sales market in the brake field. Most Chinese and foreign companies that focus on the OEM market are beginning to try to make a difference in the aftermarket. Longji Machinery said in its annual report released last year that it should enter the domestic automobile after-sales maintenance market through mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures on the premise of developing and expanding its main business, and realize the extension from the automobile manufacturing industry to the automobile service industry. This year, Longji Machinery may have made some breakthroughs in the aftermarket.
On December 9 last year, during the Frankfurt Parts Fair in Shanghai, CBI, the basic brake component manufacturer, announced that its brand BRAXIS has officially entered the domestic automotive aftermarket. The product quality is positioned at the high-end, firstly, the brake pads and brakes will be introduced. Disks and brake calipers, etc., will gradually introduce a series of products such as brake fluid, brake hose and modified calipers.
â–  The transformation of independent brands to brake assembly suppliers over the past year, many industry experts told reporters that some companies in China that have the ability to manufacture high-end brake products are still difficult to enter the joint venture brand vehicle procurement system, and independent Brand car companies also have limited support for these parts and components companies. In order to change this situation, independent brand parts companies need to comprehensively improve their R&D capabilities and improve their ability to match the vehicle. From a single brake component manufacturer to a brake system assembly supplier.
The improvement of comprehensive strength may wish to try more joint ventures and joint development between enterprises. On August 7 last year, Fuao shares and Wanan Technology announced at the same time that the two parties had initially reached a cooperation intention on August 6, 2014 and signed the "Intent to Establish a Joint Venture Company", intending to establish a joint venture company in Changchun City. R&D, production and sales of automotive brake systems and related parts and components. Cooperation can promote the integration of resources between the two parties and serve customers more quickly.
Last year, not only Wanan Technology, but also the brake companies such as Longji Machinery and Asia Pacific, which also had frequent operations in the industrial layout. As many new projects of various enterprises were put into production, they are also supplying suppliers of comprehensive brake systems. Step forward to meet customers' one-stop shopping needs.
[key products]
■ The active brake system is a trend electronic sensor that gives the car a “perception”, and advanced braking systems such as ABS and EBS are popularized. Nowadays, the world's major automotive markets have begun to promote the application of active braking systems (or "automatic emergency braking systems", "auxiliary braking systems", etc.). This year, more vehicles or brake companies will participate in the research and development of the system, and first put it into the middle and high-end models (including passenger cars and commercial vehicles).
With the increase in the reliability of the active brake system, the reduction in production costs and vehicle matching costs, and the promotion of relevant regulations, its market demand will continue to grow in the next few years. The European NCAP has adopted the active braking system as one of the important evaluation projects for vehicle safety performance. The US Transportation Authority also added an automatic emergency braking system to the safety configuration recommendations for new vehicle evaluations.
At present, in the domestic automobile market, active brake systems have been equipped on imported or domestic high-end models of Mercedes-Benz, Buick, Volvo, Acura, Infiniti and other brands. The Japanese mainland has also begun to promote the system on a larger scale. Not long ago, Nissan Motor said in an official notice that it will be equipped with automatic emergency braking systems for its various models (including electric vehicles and commercial vehicles) in Japan to improve vehicle safety.
â–  EPB popularizes mid-to-low-end models On July 14, 2014, auto parts supplier Continental AG said that it has integrated caliper-integrated electronic parking brakes (EPB-Ci) with many well-known automakers in China and Japan. Significant strategic cooperation has been achieved, which indicates that Continental's EPB products have achieved localized production to better meet the rapidly growing demand in the Chinese market. In China, several independent parts companies with brake products as their main business have long been concerned about the huge demand and development trend of the EPB market, and have begun to develop EPB products.
This year, there will be more domestic low-end models with EPB as standard. Asia-Pacific shares, Libang Hexin, and Wanan Technology began research and development of EPB products many years ago. A recent announcement by the Asia Pacific shares indicates that its EPB project is scheduled to go into production this year, and the specific time needs to look at the progress of the entire car factory. Last year, the Asia-Pacific shares were identified as the EPB product suppliers of FAW Car Pentium B90 and X80, and also obtained the EPB qualifications of Dongfeng Xiaokang, Jiangling Holdings and SAIC Chase. Libang Hexin EPB has been launched in batches with Zotye's main models Z500 and T600. Wanan Technology began to cooperate with Nanjing University of Science and Technology in 2009 to conduct research and development of EPB.
■ Brake energy recovery technology is a new hot spot for research and development. In July 2014, Zhu Cheng, Director of the New Energy Vehicle Development Research Department of the Automotive Industry Development Research Institute of China Automotive Technology and Research Center, said at the “2014 China Automotive High-Tech Development International Forum” that electric vehicles Brake energy recovery is an important technology to improve energy efficiency and reflect the advantages and characteristics of electric vehicles. China has begun to study the industry standards for testing and evaluation methods for electric vehicle braking energy recovery. Pure electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles all require vehicle braking systems with efficient energy recovery performance. China's own brand brake companies have begun to intervene in this field. This year, there may be more brake companies "early adopters" in the new energy field.
The Asia-Pacific shares announced in July last year that its "Research and Development of Energy-Responsive Electric Vehicle Brake Anti-locking System" in cooperation with Tsinghua University has passed the acceptance test. The Asia-Pacific shares are mainly responsible for the industrialization of related technologies. This project is a major project of the “Technical Integration of Key Technologies and Systems for Electric Vehicles (Phase I)” in the field of modern transportation technology of the 863 Program. The high-tech center of the Ministry of Science and Technology organized experts to conduct acceptance, focusing on the coupling of electric vehicle feedback braking and friction braking. The method, braking energy recovery strategy and coordinated control method, proposed the evaluation method of energy feedback brake anti-lock braking system, and studied related batch production technology. The results of the project were carried out on various new energy vehicles such as BAIC, Chery, Futian, Yutong and SAIC.

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