2015 April 21, 16:00 CEST

Gothenburg, 21 April, 2015: SKF has recently received the Best Supplier Award from SAGW, one of the leading automotive transmission system manufacturers in China. SKF has been recognized for delivering outstanding performance of products and services offered in 2014.

Ulrich Selig, Director Sales Asia, Automotive Market says, "The Best Supplier Award is the highest award SAGW presents to its suppliers. This is great recognition of the successful co-operation that has been established in a very short time. Our strong dedication and attention to the needs of SAGW has truly been recognized and we look forward to the continuation of a successful partnership."

Hong Gao, Executive Director, SAGW, says: "To maintain the industry's leading position and realize the strategic target for business development, every step in procurement and manufacturing must be the best. SKF's outstanding performance is helping us in reaching this target steadily."

SKF has been a customer of SAGW since 2011. This fast growing engineering partnership led to a Strategic Partnership Agreement in 2014, and several new business agreements. Recent ones include supplying transmission bearings and seals for several new gearbox models to equip car models from SGM, SGMW, Haima Motor.

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For further information, please contact:
Press Relations: Monique Turner, +1 267 436 6836; +1 215 801 8722, monique.turner@skf.com

SKF is a leading global supplier of bearings, seals, mechatronics, lubrication systems, and services which include technical support, maintenance and reliability services, engineering consulting and training. SKF is represented in more than 130 countries and has around 15,000 distributor locations worldwide. Annual sales in 2014 were SEK 70,975 million and the number of employees was 48,593. www.skf.com


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