The top three luxury brands (Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz) have entered the fast lane of development since the establishment of the joint venture company in China. It took 22 years for FAW Audi to achieve its first sales of 1 million vehicles in China. The entrant, BMW Brilliance, achieved sales of 1 million units in only 11 years. At this time, Beijing Benz was only set up two hundred years later than the establishment of BMW Brilliance to 100,000 units this year. Socket-Weld Flanges has a female socket in which pipe is fitted. Fillet welding is done from outside on the pipe. The socket welding flange is similar to a slip-on flange except it has a bore and a counterbore dimension. Weld Flanges,Socket Weld Flanges,ANSI Socket Weld Flanges,Steel Socket Weld Flanges Shandong Zhongnuo Heavy Industry Co.,Ltd. , https://www.zhongnuoflange.com
The huge success of BMW in China has made management ecstatic. Kang Siyuan, President and CEO of BMW Brilliance, even told reporters that nearly 500,000 of the first 1 million joint venture companies in China were completed in the past two years. The next one will be realized as soon as possible. The number of domestically produced models will be in the future. It has doubled from the current three models to six models and has increased the existing 300,000 units to 400,000 units.
With more BMW models entering the localization series, BMW has a growing sense of crisis. In recent years, Audi has been relying on the Chinese market to get closer to BMW in terms of global sales. In 2013, the gap between the two was even less than 80,000. The reason is that the key factor for Audi's long-term sales in China is that its localization of products has always been at the forefront. In order to maintain the position of the luxury car market leader, BMW must adjust the proportion of imported cars and domestic cars in China.
An insider close to BMW told the "Securities Daily" reporter that the current BMW imported car and domestic car sales share is 4:6, the future proportion will be adjusted to 3:7. With the expansion of production capacity and the production of more new models, it is foreseeable that the process of BMW Brilliance's next 1 million vehicles will be further accelerated.
How many domestic cars decided to win or lose On May 17, 1988, FAW and Audi signed the "Technology Transfer License Contract for the Production of Audi in FAW" in Changchun, producing the first domestically produced Audi 100, and FAW Audi completed in 22 years. Audi 100, Audi A6, Audi 200, Audi A4, Audi Q5 five domestic products, as well as A6L, A4L models to meet the special needs of the Chinese market. Coupled with the gradual expansion of production capacity, FAW Audi ushered in the first luxury car brand to sell 1 million vehicles in China in 2010, and quickly achieved the second 1 million sales volume after two years and nine months.
In May 2003, Brilliance BMW, the second joint venture luxury car company in China, was established. It took 11 years since the first domestic BMW 325i (E46) went offline in October of that year to the 1 millionth vehicle on January 8. It is only half of FAW Audi. At this time, BMW Brilliance has three domestic models of BMW 3 Series, BMW 5 Series and BMW X1. Only these three models contributed 270,000 units of sales to BMW in 2014, accounting for more than 59% of BMW's sales in China. .
Looking at the sales of the top three luxury brands in 2013, BMW sold 1.655 million units in the global market, only less than 80,000 units more than Audi. Audi has already reached the throne of the global luxury car sales champion. The reporter noted that Audi sold 492,000 vehicles in China in 2013, accounting for more than 31% of its global sales. In the same period, BMW's sales in China accounted for less than 24% of global sales.
Correspondingly, the proportion of domestically produced vehicles produced by FAW Audi has exceeded 95%. In the first 11 months of 2014, the proportion of FAW Audi's domestically produced cars remained high. In contrast, the proportion of BMW domestic and imported car sales has been rising too slowly, and it is difficult to cross the 6:4 gravity line in the long run.
"Currently BMW Brilliance has only three domestic models. FAW Audi has upgraded its domestically produced models to five models and six product lines this year. Therefore, the sales gap between BMW and Audi in China in the first 11 months has increased to 101,147. It is also expected. "An expert in the industry told reporters.
In the next two years, the expansion of production and the addition of three domestically produced models will face the aggressiveness of Audi in the Chinese market through localization. BMW has reached a moment of change. At the 2014 Guangzhou Auto Show, Kang Siyuan said that this year's BMW Brilliance model sales will account for two-thirds of the total sales, and will reach 70% in the future.
To this end, Kang Siyuan revealed to reporters that in the next two years, the production capacity of the BMW Brilliance plant will be increased from the existing 300,000 units to 400,000 units. The expansion projects of the Dadong Plant and the Tiexi Plant are in progress, and the number of domestically produced models of the company is in progress. Will double, from the current 3 series to 6 series.
He has previously revealed that in 2015, BMW will produce three models, namely a multi-functional family car, an entry-level sedan that is lower than the BMW 3 Series, and an SUV specially tailored for China.
Xu Changming, director of the Resource Development Department of the National Information Center, once said that with the rise of China's middle class, the demand for redemption is heating up, and many consumers who buy a second car are considering luxury brands. For this group of people, compact luxury cars may be the target of their purchase. Once the entry-level sedan is lower than the BMW 3 Series, BMW will make a big difference in the compact luxury car, and can effectively attack the Audi A3 to seize more market share.
In addition to increasing the production capacity of localized models and factories, BMW Brilliance's new joint venture engine plant, which will be put into production in 2016, will bring a new generation of BMW three-cylinder and four-cylinder turbocharged gasoline engines. “In addition to Munich, the BMW Group's second complete engine plant with a foundry production plant, all key components are produced here. After production in 2016, we will produce the most advanced three-cylinder and four-cylinder engines,†BMW Brilliance Technology and Hessen, senior vice president of production, told reporters.
As a result, BMW Brilliance will have both domestic and domestic engines in the future, and the products will be more competitive in the market after reducing costs.
The counterbore is slightly larger than the O.D. of the matching pipe, allowing the pipe to be inserted into the flange similar to a slip-on flange.
The diamter of the smaller bore is the same as the I.D. of the matchine pipe A restriction is built into the bottom of the bore which sets as a shoulder for the pipe to rest on.