In the early 20th century, our mother companies began business relations with China for the purchasing of raw materials.
NOK-FREUDENBERG (CHINA) has a long tradition in China
NOK Corporation, also known as Nippon Oil Seal Industry Company and Freudenberg of Germany began their successful and long-running partnership.
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*Conclusion of the contract in 1960 between Freudenberg and NOK Corporation. From left to right: Richard Freudenberg, Shogo Tsuru. |
Just three years later a further production plant for oil seals was opened in Wuxi. In less than ten years approx. 1,600 employees are working today at Wuxi NOK-Freudenberg Oil Seal Co. Ltd (WNF) | ![]() |
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The first sales office, NOK-Freudenberg Hong Kong Ltd., was established in Hong Kong to accommodate the General Industry business development in China, Hong Kong and Macao. |
15 years ago 337 employees worked for our company (Production and sales). Today we have around 2,500 employees (8-times higher).
The Shanghai sales office was established with only 5 employees. Nowadays NFC has 10 sales offices in China with more than 200 sales people.
Taicang NOK-Freudenberg Sealing Products Co., Ltd. (TNF) was established in Taicang for manufacturing hydraulic seals for the heavy industry. | ![]() |
Based on rapidly growing market demands, NOK-FREUDENBERG (CHINA) focused their sales channels and established NOK-Freudenberg Group Sales (China) Co., Ltd. to serve automobile customers in China and established NOK-Freudenberg Group Trading (China) Co., Ltd. to serve industrial markets in China.
Following the founding of the sales and trading channels, NOK-FREUDENBERG (CHINA) sales exceeded 1 billion RMB, marking an important milestone.
NOK-FREUDENBERG (CHINA) integrated the NSP O-Ring plant into Wuxi NOK-FREUDENBERG plant.
Within 4 years of reaching 1 billion RMB in sales, NFC doubled the sales turnover.
Additional factories were opened in both CNF and WNF, expanding to 35,000m² and 38,000m² respectively. Wuxi became the largest sealing plant within our worldwide company. Furthermore we followed the localization strategies of our customers and started the production lines in China with accumulators and bonded piston seals (BPS).
NOK and FST (Freudenberg Sealing Technologies) became partnership with each other for NOK-FREUDENBERG (CHINA) which marks for a new milestone for the development of the company.