Shaanxi Fast Auto Drive Group Company is the specialized production enterprise and exportation base in China, mainly for heavy-duty auto transmissions, auto gears, forgings and castings. It has seven subsidiary plants in Xi'an, Baoji and Xianyang, totally over ten wholly-owned and share stock companies. Fast Group ranks Top 30 in China automobile industry, Top 100 in China machinery industry and Top 500 in China manufacturing industry in realizing striding-up development.
With the high-speed development of Chinese automobile industry, Fast Group makes outstanding contributions to Chinese automobile industry and local economic and social development by virtue of its fruitful results of the scientific development. Each operation index of Fast Group ranks the first in the national gear industry for ten successive years and the annual output and sales of heavy-duty transmission has ranked the first in the world for seven successive years.
Fast Group also wins the title of "National May 1st Labor Award", "One of the National Top 10 Model State-Owned Enterprises", "National Model Home of Staff" and acquires the qualifications of "State-level Enterprise Technical Center" and "National Innovating-Type Trial Enterprises" and is listed as "Export Base of Auto Components" and "The 1st-batch National Auto Component Remanufacturing Trial Enterprises" by the State; Fast trademark is recognized as "China Well-known Trademark" and gear products of Fast Group have the honor to win "Inspection-Free Certificate" from the state. Fast Auto Drive Engineering Research Institute obtains “State-level Enterprise Technical Center" credential and is identified as "Academician and Experts Workstation" and Shaanxi "13115" Sci-tech Innovation Engineering Unit. With the establishment of State-level Enterprise Technical Center and Academician and Experts Workstation, Fast has built first-class system of sci-tech R&D and self-innovation in China, and started a new engine of sci-tech leading, innovation driving, technology supporting and rapid development. It has formed a new pattern of integration of production, education and research, and complementary development of domestic and overseas market advantage, and laid new and solid foundation for the company's independent innovation and sci-tech progress.
Relying on technology progress and independent innovation, Fast Group has formed a comprehensive production capacity of annual production of one million units of transmissions, gears of 50 million pieces and auto forgings of 100,000 tons. Our heavy-duty transmissions, covering the market fields from 4 to 24 speed, are widely matched with over one thousand types of vehicles from more than 150 domestic vehicle manufacturerswith input torque of 400-3000 Nm, such as, heavy-duty vehicle, bus, medium and light truck, engineering vehicle, low-speed vehicle, etc. and widely exported to over ten countries and regions, like USA, Australia, East Europe, South America, Southeast Asia, Middle East, etc.. Fast transmission has the market maintenance over 4 million units. The company’s strength of competitiveness and development has been growing continuously, and the quality of life and living standards of its employees have been significantly improved, which made more greater contribution to our country and society. It has become a modern enterprise group in Chinese gear industry with the fastest speed of development, the strongest strength of development, the highest level of development and the largest scale of development.
Fast Group has strong and solid R&D capability with more than 150 patents, and many types of its transmissions have the honor to win "Sci-tech Progress Award of Chinese Automobile Industry", "Special Award for Outstanding New Products" by the state gear industry and "Science and Technology Award of Shaanxi Province".The twin-countershaft heavy-duty transmissions, developed by its own intellectual property rights and with high-tech content, reach to more than thirty series with hundreds of types.
In the innovative development, Fast Group continues to accelerate the pace of international cooperation. The company has established good strategic cooperation relations with world famous-brand enterprises, such as, Caterpillar, WABCO and Shell. Also, Fast founded its first wholly-owned factory in Thailand, which opened the gates to the company's global development and created a new situation of globalization, diversity and high-end.
Fast Group has distinguished modernized facilities with international advanced forging production line, CNC machining line, heat treat line, assembly line as well as high-efficiency & high-precision measurement, inspection and testing equipments, which reliably guarantee the high quality of its products. It has successively acquired ISO 9001:2000, QS9000, ISO/TS16949:2002 Quality Management System Certification, ISO10012:2003 Measurement Management System Certification with AAA class, ISO14001:2004 Environment Management System Certification, ISO17025:1999 Lab Certification and OHSAS18001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System Certification.
In the voting for China star automobile service brand, Fast Group is awarded the top prize of "Five Star Automobile Service Brand" for successive years, being the only listed enterprise in China gear industry. In "China International Truck Fuel Saving Competition", Fast transmission is awarded "Achievement Award for Fuel Saving" and the "Most Fuel Saving Transmission Award” for five consecutive years respectively. In the voting of "China Automobile Self-Innovation Achievements Ceremony", four new types of transmissions of Fast Group are awarded "Original Innovation Award" and "Integration Innovation Award" respectively. The total number of awards ranks the first in the auto spares part and assembly industry.
The development of Fast Group receives high attention from the Party, State and local government. The party and state leaders, such as Xi Jinping, Hu Jintao, Li Keqiang,Zhang Dejiang, Zhang Gaoli, Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Li Changchun, Zhou Yongkang, etc., inspected Fast Group in succession. They fully affirmed and highly appraised the achievements that Fast has obtained through innovative development.