ZF has completed today the official take over of the industrial gears and wind turbine gearbox business from Bosch Rexroth, following approval from antitrust authorities.
A total of 1200 employees in total at locations in Witten, Beijing, and Lake Zurich in the USA have now joined technology company ZF.
The various product lines will be brought together in the new ZF Industrial Gears business unit based in Witten in Germany.
The company also plans to strengthen its wind turbine gearbox business.
Two newly founded companies will be added to ZF’s industrial gears business unit -ZF Industrieantriebe Witten and the ZF Powertrain Systems (Beijing).
Witten is also the production location of ZF’s existing Wind Power Technology business unit which is headquartered in Lommel, Belgium.
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In Beijing, gearboxes for ZF’s wind power segment are also being produced.
Christoph Kainzbauer has been appointed to head up the industrial gears business unit.
He was previously responsible for global sales of Bosch Rexroth’s large gearbox segment.
ZF chief executive officer Stefan Sommer said: “With the newly created industrial gears business unit we literally intend to get things moving on a large scale.
“We are extending our portfolio with large transmissions for industrial applications and mobile machinery through to tunnel drilling machines, and 600-ton mining excavators.
“The product range will also be extended in the Wind Power Technology business unit with gearboxes for turbines generating up to 8MW.”
