China’s CSR Meishan Expands Business to Low Floor Trams
CSR Meishan is the largest company of R&D, manufacturing, and testing of rivets and pins in China. Founded in 2005, it has passed the audit of the former Ministry of China Railway and has been allowed to produce rivets. It was also allowed to stimulate the standards for rivets, short end rivets, and rivet pins used in railway applications. Over 80 million pieces of rivets and pins have been installed on over 0.4 million units of vehicles. Since 2006 it has become the first company in China (second in the world) that owns the R&D ability of bom screws used in automotive, city metro, heavy-duty truck, and steel structure industries.
Afterward, CSR Meishan started to cooperate with international well-known fastener companies and gained the recognition of China Railway and city metro, the military, Australian mining machines & railway equipment, and U.S. trucks markets. It also developed and manufactured products for Australian mining machines & railway equipment, U.S. trucks, Indian railway, British solar energy and products were exported to over 20 countries. Its annual capacity for rivets (ф5-ф40mm) can reach 30 million pieces and is expected to further increase to 50 million pieces by 2017.