- A Special Interview to KDS President & General Manager Zhao Guangzhong

Kinetek Desheng Motor Co., Ltd. (KDS), located in Shunde in Guangdong Province, China, is a Sino-foreign cooperative company, co-funded by America Kinetek Group and Shunde Desheng Motor Co., Ltd. As the parent company of Shunde Kinetek Desheng Motor Co., Ltd., Kinetek Group is specialized in manufacturing motors, gear motors, driving axles, machinery transmission drive and motion control systems, which has built up a number of world famous brands including Advanced DC, Imperial Electric, FIR, Merkle-Korff Industries, Motion Control Engineering and Electrical Design & Control.

Kinetek is engaged in providing equipments and solutions for the specialized fields such as elevators, material handling vehicles, commercial ground maintenance devices, logistics, electrical appliances and vending machines, and the motors from Kinetek are widely used in the industries such as elevators, battery power vehicles, hoisting machines, air conditioners, blowers, metallurgical machineries and other general industrial fields. Shunde Kinetek Desheng Motor Co., Ltd. has been established for a decade, acting as the platform for Kinetek Group to produce and sell specialty motors and finished products to the markets in North America and Asia. In recent years, KDS began to enter the field of AC motors that will be used for electric forklifts in China, of which the products were widely used by the manufacturers of electric forklifts. At the annual meeting of Industrial Truck Institution of China Construction Machinery Association (CITA), KDS was elected to be one of China Excellent Suppliers for Industrial Trucks.

Recently, Chinaforklift.com (www.chinaforklift.com, English version: www.forkliftnet.com) conducted an interview to the President and General Manager of KDS, Mr. Zhao Guangzhong(Mr. Zhao for short).

Chinaforklift.com: Thank you for receiving our interview, Mr. Zhao. As the parent company of KDS, Kinetek Group has a long history lasting for 103 years and now is the largest manufacturer of driving equipment in the world. Can you introduce some information about Kinetek Group, Mr. Zhao?

Mr. Zhao: Kinetek Group started to produce motors 103 years before, and the main products of the Group kept being motors till the middle of last century. But in the end of last century, Kinetek Group also provided the parts matched with the motors besides manufacturing motors. Generally, the motors are used for the driving systems, such as the driving gear box, rear axle, and pump. When the motor is mentioned, the motor for general use will reflect in people’s mind. However, we don’t make general motors in KDS but providing motors to specialized industries. Meanwhile, we also provide the customers with gear boxes, rear axles and motor controllers, with an aim to offer integrated and professional solutions.
　　
At present, our products are mainly provided to the following industries: forklifts, elevators, ground maintenance equipments and wind power equipments. We pay more attention on the requirements of the customers from different industries, and we emphasize the application of our products in various fields. Due to high technological feature, the motors from KDS are specialized in the design and manufacturing, and this also has reflected the changes of Kinetek from the establishment till now. 

Chinaforklift.com: KDS acquired Shunde Motor Factory after entering Chinese market, and it had already been ten years. What achievements had KDS gained in the industries including elevators, battery driving systems, hoisting machinery and metallurgical equipments, especially in the forklift field?

Mr. Zhao: General speaking, the AC motors used in the forklift industry were mainly imported from foreign countries, and the DC motors were manufactured by domestic enterprises. Nowadays, Kinetek has steadily established its brand and fame on domestic market in China in terms of their AC motors that are specialized to be used on forklifts., Kinetek motors have been well received by the customers not only in the forklift industry, but also are highly praised as excellent products in all the industries we are engaged in. KDS is now a high-end brand, acting as a leading motor brand on the market. Numbers of forklift manufacturers are our customers, such as Linde, Crown, Toyota, Raymond, Mitsubishi-CAT, HELI and Hangcha.