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Voith China Milestone

Voith China Milestone

Voith China Milestone

1910
  • Voith delivered turbines to China’s first hydropower station, Shilongba Hydropower Plant in Yunnan
1937
  • Voith’s first paper machine in China was started up at Shanghai Minfeng Paper
1968
  • The main equipment of China's first pumped storage station - Hebei Gangnan Power Station, was provided by Voith
1985
  • Voith set up its branch in Hongkong
1986
  • the first Voith automatic transmission was applied in a Shanghai bus
1994
  • Voith supplied turbines and generators to Guangzhou Pumped Storage Hydropower Plant Phase II, then the world’s largest pumped storage power station
  • Voith Hydro Shanghai Ltd. was established
1996
  • Voith Sulzer Paper Technology approved a joint venture between J.M. Voith AG and Liaoyang Paper Machinery Co. Ltd
  • Voith Paper Technology Company signed a contract to provide Jiangsu Dagang Jindong Paper with two largest paper machines in the world at that time
1997
  • Voith received an order from the Three Gorges Dam to supply six turbines to the world’s largest hydro power station
1998
  • Voith won the order to provide 600 gear boxes and 430 Voith Scharfenberg coupler for Shanghai Metro Line 2
2001
  • Voith Turbo Power Transmission (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. was established
2004
  • Voith lands a leading Chinese auto manufacturer in Shenyang as a customer
2005
  • Shanghai Voith Schaku KTK Coupler Technlogy Co., Ltd. was established
  • Voith developed a Vorecon with a transmission capacity of 30 megawatts which is first introduced to the China market
2007
  • Voith Paper City Phase I opening ceremony was held
  • Voith won its first customer in China’s food industry
2008
  • Voith receives an order to deliver three generators and three Francis turbines to Xiluodu, each boasts an output of 784 MW
2009
  • Voith wins a customer in the aircraft industry and assumes the servicing of the production equipment in the final assembly
  • Voith opens Asia’s most modern and largest production and service center for the paper industry, in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province
2010
  • Hainan PM2, the world’s largest paper machine goes into operation
  • Voith delivered couplings, front-end systems and wheelset transmission systems for the China’s High-speed Railway (CRH), then the fastest train in the world.
2011
  • Voith Corporate Management (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. was established
2014
  • Voith China Training Center, jointly funded by Voith and Kunshan Municipal Government, officially opened, introducing the German dual education system.
2015
  • Voith and Huatai Paper formed a strategic partnership
2016
  • Voith Turbo moved to Lotus plant, a brand-new production base in Shanghai, China, with more advanced manufacturing and R&D capabilities.
2017
  • The new digital venture division set up a branch in China.
  • Voith celebrated its 150th anniversary worldwide
2018
  • Voith and Bohui Paper built the ivory board machine BM4 with the largest untrimmed web width in the world.
2019
  • Voith signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with CRRC on cooperation in the field of electric drive systems.
  • Bohui PM5, the plasterboard machine with the largest single capacity in the world, started successfully.
2020
  • The first turbines and generators of Wudongde Hydropower Station, the world’s seventh and China's fourth largest hydropower station, were connected to the grid. The No. 6 unit designed and manufactured by Voith was one of them.
2021
  • Sun Paper Laos PM2 started successfully. It only took one hour and 46 minutes from fiber to paper, setting a new record.
  • Voith has delivered nearly 300,000 hydraulic retarders to the Chinese market in total, safeguarding the life and property of logistics enterprises and truck drivers.
2022
  • Sun Paper Beihai PM2 started successfully, setting a world record for the fastest project execution of high-speed ivory board machine.
  • The first batch of Voith electric drive systems (VEDS) manufactured in China were successfully delivered to clients in Singapore and Australia.
  • Voith empowered full commercial operation of the Changlongshan Pumped Storage Power Station.
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