New cutting tool supplier development in China

BOOSTER Taicang is exploring more and more business opportunities with major fuel cell and clean energy technology manufacturers in China. To reduce the early development and prototyping phases it is imperative that we develop also local cutting tools suppliers who can support us on our path to shorten these early project stages.



As precise machining is at the core of BOOSTER competence, and there is no machining without high quality precision tools, we have invested lot of effort in the recent months to build up a solid and highly reactive cutting tool supplier base in China. Since July of this year we are performing long-term tests of reaming and milling  tools which show very promising results and are at par with the traditional premium European tool manufacturers and still maintain cost benefit resulting from production on local market. Apart from above benefits these suppliers also provide us with much needed delivery flexibility, reactivity and on-site support and troubleshooting.

We are also convinced that after rigorous serial testing we can potentially roll out some of their products and technical solutions also to other locations and thus maintain our competitive edge in machining on the group level.

These newly established partnership and cooperations and the gained experience on supplier development in Asia are an important pillar on BOOSTER next step development in China.