In the morning of Feb. 9th, mayor of Bad Mergentheim, executive vice-president of Würth, senior vice president of Würth and minister of Construction Coordinating Ministry came to Haiyan County, Jiangsu Province, China. Cuishe Wang, vice secretary of Haiyan County and other leaders of the county welcomed the Germany Guests with open arms. The officials of the county introduced Haiyan to the guests and they had a friendly talk.
After that, Mr. Suishe Wang signed a Memorandum of Friendship Cities with the mayor. Haiyan County successfully builds cooperation relationship with the Germany city.
When the signing ceremony ended, the two parties came to the project sport of Wurth and the Foundation Stone Laying Ceremony of Würth Group Greater China Central Distribution Center Phase 2 Project began. Mr. Sheng Quasnsheng, vice-president of Jiaxing City and other leaders were presented at the ceremony. The event was hosted by Wang Jian, vice county chief of Haiyan County. Mr. Jiahua Shen, president of Zhejiang Fastener Industry Association was invited to the event.

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The leader of Würth led the group of people to visit the Phase 1 project.
Würth Group was founded in 1945, with more than 400 subsidiaries and 71000 staffs in more than 80 countries around the word. In 2016, its global sales reached more than €11.8 billion. It’s a leader in fixing tools and fastener industry. In 1994, the company started its Chinese market development and now its footpath has covered China.
On Dec. 30 2015, the government of Haiyan County signed a project investment memorandum with Würth group witnessed by Premier Li Keqiang and Chancellor Merkel. On Jan. 11 2016, Haiyan Economic Development Zone signed an investment agreement with Würth to set a supply train centre in China of Würth. It aimed to build a modern, solid and fully automated storage, logistic and trading centre. The project was going to be build with €50,000,000 investment by 3 phases, covering an area of 130,000 sq.m.
On Nov. 22, 2016, Phase 1 Project was started covering an area of 11,000 sq.m. It includes storage, logistic, trading and other businesses. Phase 2 Project is a high-standard intelligent solid storage covering an area of 35,000 sq.m. The projects will be build by the Zone based on the requirement of Wurth. It will be started on March and it’s expected to come into service in 2018. Phase 3 Project is planned to be build in 2019. When all projects are put into operation, it’s expected that the annual output value will be more than 3 billion Yuan.
According to the introduction, when Phase 2 Project completed, the company will be able to provide fastener service to all Asian area and European and North America.
Source: Zhejiang Fastener Industry Association