Chinese Sany Group ventures into Kenya by inaugurating showroom

China's renowned heavy equipment manufacturer, Sany Group has inaugurated a modern showroom in Kenya's capital, Nairobi on March 26. The showroom is the first of its kind in East Africa.

In September last year, Sany Group signed a dealership agreement with Rhombus Construction, the powerful ready-mix and bulk cement supplier in Kenya. During the time of agreement, it was said that Rhombus would sell 650 dump trucks and 200 concrete machines in Kenya in the next three years that would make Sany's concrete machinery rank No. 1 and dump trucks list No. 2 in the local market.

According to Xinhua, the newly launched showroom displays various equipment on offer, including concrete machinery, road machinery, excavators, mixer trucks, tipper trucks and firefighting machinery among others. Both the companies now intend to take a share of USD 95 billion construction market in Kenya.

This is likely to create more jobs, train engineering students and the acquisition of affordable equipment, head of sales and marketing at Rhombus Construction, Victor Marangu said. Sany will offer professional assistance to Rhombus in marketing system construction, service policy making and parts warehouse planning. Irootech, a high-tech enterprise incubated by Sany Group, signed its first cooperative agreement in Africa.

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