SKF has broken ground for a new regional distribution centre located in the WaiGaoQiao Free Trade Zone in the northeast part of Shanghai.
The new centre will support the entire NE Asia Pacific region and joins a global network in North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia.
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“This new centre will enable us to even better support our distributors and customers in NE Asia,” said president and CEO Tom Johnstone.
The distribution centre is a fully automated warehouse with a 30-metre high automatic storing and retrieval system (ASRS) and will be fully operational in 2013. The total cost will be around SEK100m (US$15.25m).
