Sany Group, one of the world's
biggest concrete machinery
manufacturers, plans to set up
10 exclusive showrooms for
selling its construction and material
handling equipment. These showrooms
will be set up in all large
cities across India over the next two to
three years.
Revealing his company's plans, Liang
Dong, Managing Director, Sany India
Pvt. Ltd, told Projectmonitor that Sany
aimed to reach a turnover of around
$1.5 billion from its India operations
alone by 2015. Sany has already sold
more than 2,000 pieces of concrete
machinery in India.
The company, headquartered in
China, has inaugurated its new $70-
million manufacturing facility at
Chakan near Pune-its first overseas
plant. The facility is spread across a
3,30,000-sq metre area and has a builtup
area of 37,000 sq. metres. It
includes a comprehensive manufacturing
set-up, product design and customisation
centre, sales, renting, service,
storage, logistics and a full-fledged
R&D centre. The facility will manufacture
trailer-mounted concrete pumps,
truck-mounted concrete pumps, concrete
mixer trucks, concrete batching
plants, and motor graders and cranes.
The new plant is designed to supply
equipment, components, design and
R&D to the Indian marketplace as well
as to other markets in Asia, Africa and
the Middle East.
Liang Dong disclosed that the company
was keen to set up a spare parts
facility near Mumbai. Around 165 local
vendors have already been identified
to ensure as much as 90 per cent of
local components.
Sany India also has plans to set up a
state-of-the-art in-house training institute
by December 2010, Sachin Joshi, a
company spokesperson, said. The
institute will include housing facilities
for the trainees.
Sany first entered India in 2003 and
since then has been involved in the
supply of construction machinery to
large-scale infrastructure projects
such as a residential tower, a power
plant, airport expansion, a rail bridge
project, and a metro project.