World's largest Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) main bearing in Changsha, central China's Hunan Province.
Diameter is 8.61 meter. It has power to drive a TBM of diameter 18 meter.
It has high precision. A flatness of less than 20 micrometers within an 8 meter pipe.
In past west tried China stop to make large TBM. West did not sell large main bearings.
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