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ZW Drive

Chinese manufacturing company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ110313340 ↗
Source-derived summary

Shenzhen Zhaowei, commonly known as ZW Drive, is a Shenzhen-based manufacturer of power transmission systems and gearboxes, including micro planetary gearboxes, precision reduction gear boxes, plastic and metal powder-based injection parts and its assemblies. The company also operates five fully owned subsidiaries.

Company history

The company was incorporated in 2001. It is active in micro drive systems, gearboxes, gear motor, encoders, and controls. It reported a net profit of 244.7 million yuan in 2020. Zhaowei is listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, completed its successful initial public offering (IPO) in December 2020.

Precision gear mold design and development

In terms of gear mold design, after years of technology accumulation, the company has mastered the core key technologies of gear mold cavity design methods and tooth shape correction.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “ZW Drive” as chinese manufacturing company. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Drive, Chinese and manufacturing.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Drive, Chinese and manufacturing providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “ZW Drive”, the useful work is to connect “chinese manufacturing company” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 15, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q110313340. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2001 and 2020.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “ZW Drive” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.