For procurement professionals sourcing plain bearings and bushings, the challenge has never been finding suppliers. There are thousands of them. The challenge is finding a manufacturer that can genuinely deliver on quality, pricing, and consistency at scale. Zhejiang Myway Co., Ltd. is one of a small handful of manufacturers that has built the infrastructure to do exactly that.
Founded in 2005 in Zhejiang Province, China, MYWAY has grown over two decades into one of China’s top four bushing manufacturers by production volume and product scope. The company operates a 35,000-square-meter factory in Guangde, Anhui Province, employs more than 400 people, and posts annual output exceeding RMB 300 million. Its products ship to customers in more than 40 countries, including Germany, Japan, South Korea, the United States, and Canada.
What drives this global reach is a combination of vertical integration, a product portfolio that covers virtually every bushing category, and a direct-to-customer sales model that keeps prices competitive.
A Fully Integrated Manufacturing Operation
Most bushing suppliers occupy only one part of the supply chain. Some are trading houses that source from factories. Others handle machining but buy their castings from outside vendors. MYWAY does everything in-house, from raw material casting and sintering through precision machining, quality inspection, and warehousing.
The foundry operation alone reflects the scale of the company’s capabilities. MYWAY runs seven horizontal continuous casting lines, eight medium-frequency furnaces, and nine centrifuges for centrifugal casting. Annual casting capacity reaches 20,000 tons, and the facility can handle centrifugal casting up to three meters in diameter, placing MYWAY among a very small group of manufacturers capable of producing that scale of component.
From the foundry, material moves into sintering, where MYWAY operates three specialized sintering furnaces and eight chamber furnaces. The sintering process governs the performance of composite and self-lubricating bushings, and MYWAY’s multi-stage approach, covering powder spreading, high-temperature sintering, rolling, and precision leveling, is engineered for consistency across large production runs.
The precision machining department, established in 2013, handles copper bushing diameters from 1,200 mm up to 2,500 mm and employs more than 200 people. This department handles the final dimensional tolerances that determine whether a part performs in service.
Quality Infrastructure
MYWAY holds certifications under ISO 9001:2015, IATF 16949:2016, and ISO 14001:2015. IATF 16949 is the quality management standard used by automotive manufacturers and their supply chains, and it requires documented process control, defect prevention systems, and regular third-party audits. Achieving and maintaining this certification means MYWAY’s quality systems have been independently verified against one of the most demanding standards in manufacturing.
The company’s in-house testing laboratory supports these certifications with coordinate measuring machines, spectrometers for material composition analysis, tensile testing equipment, metallographic analyzers, hardness testers, and ultrasonic non-destructive testing. This equipment is used to inspect finished products before shipment, not as a random sampling exercise but as systematic verification that each component meets the stated specification.
A 5,000-square-meter digital warehouse holds 500 to 600 tons of finished goods inventory at any given time. A digital management system provides real-time inventory visibility, and select customers have direct access to check stock levels and order status.
Product Range: Covering the Full Spectrum
Where MYWAY differentiates most clearly from smaller competitors is product breadth. The company manufactures across twelve major bushing categories:
SF-1 self-lubricating bushings and SF-2 boundary lubricating bushings serve mechanical equipment, automation systems, and automotive applications. Bimetal bushings, using steel-backed bronze construction, are common in automotive and construction machinery. Wrapped bronze and wrapped steel bushings cover general industrial equipment and heavy-duty applications. Solid lubricating bushings, including the BR-500 and DB series, are used in high-wear, heavy-equipment environments. Bronze bushings, seamless steel bushings, powder metallurgy bushings, plastic compound bushings, and composite material bushings round out the catalog, along with ball retainer bearings for high-speed applications.
Supporting this range are more than 2,000 precision molds covering standard sizes across all categories. For non-standard requirements, MYWAY’s engineering team can develop custom configurations from customer drawings.
For procurement teams managing multiple bushing types, consolidating sourcing to a single qualified supplier reduces purchase order volume, simplifies quality auditing, and can improve pricing leverage.
Pricing and the Cost Structure Behind It
MYWAY states that its pricing typically runs 15 to 30 percent below comparable-quality manufacturers. The cost structure that supports this comes from several factors. Vertical integration removes the markup that accumulates when a trading company buys from a foundry, which buys from a material supplier, and resells to the end customer. Purchasing raw materials in bulk at production scale reduces per-unit material costs. Planned batch production reduces machine setup time and material waste. And selling directly to buyers without agents or distributors eliminates another margin layer.
For buyers purchasing tens of thousands of units annually, a consistent 15 to 20 percent reduction in per-unit cost has meaningful bottom-line impact, particularly when the underlying quality certifications remain the same.
Serving Diverse End Markets
MYWAY’s customer base spans a wide range of industries. Automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers use MYWAY bushings in both conventional vehicles and new energy vehicle platforms. Construction machinery, agricultural equipment, and industrial automation companies source from the company, as do customers in fluid power systems, solar and wind energy installations, steel and metallurgy operations, and food processing machinery.
Long-standing customer relationships in Germany and Japan, both markets with notably strict quality expectations, reflect the consistency of MYWAY’s output.
Getting Started with MYWAY
For industrial buyers looking to qualify a new bushing supplier or consolidate their current sourcing, MYWAY offers a direct path to a manufacturer with the scale, certification, and product range to support complex procurement requirements.
Visit mybushing.com or contact the MYWAY foreign trade team directly at [email protected] or by phone and WhatsApp at +86 136 4583 4002. The company’s foreign trade center is located at Building 10, Greenland Central Plaza, Gongshu District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.
