Chinese heavy construction machine manufacturing company SANY says its investment into the Nigeria economy is now over $2.3 billion US dollars.
This was the revelation made by the company’s Service manager Mr. Afeez Salau while speaking with newsmen in Abuja.
He noted that through its operation in the country the company has deepened and expanded the arrays of construction equipment available in the Nigerian market.
“SANY is an established global brand with presence in all parts of the world., and as the second largest construction and mining machine manufacturer in the world, we have been in Nigeria for 17 years.
We have deepened the construction equipment market through our investment. In the past 3 years, we have had a year on year growth of 50% in the industry, and we took the biggest market share of excavator in Nigeria with the support of Nigerian government and construction industry.
With this growth, we are increasing our presence across the country, with plans to establish offices in Kano and Port Harcourt apart from the existing ones in Lagos and Abuja to further contribute to the development of Nigeria.
Speaking on its future development plan and technology transfer he stated that SANY was currently expanding its team of service engineers who would be only Nigerians, “our sales team is comprised by 4 Chinese and 4 Nigerians, our after-sales team is comprise by 4 Chinese and 5 Nigerians, and we are recruiting 10 technicians from the local college and 2 administrators with mandarin background.
We are going to keep improving the recruitment of Nigerians to develop with Nigeria together.
At present, there are over 2,000 units of SANY machines working in Nigeria. 23 excavators, 8 cranes, 8 pump trucks, 8 Rotary Drilling Rigs and 6 road machinery from Sany were working in CCECC Lagos-Ibadan Railway perfectly without any major failure.In Dangote refinery, more than 100 truck cranes and 78 crawler cranes are contributing to the future of Nigeria by their reliable performance.
He also went on to say that “The company contributes to capacity development in many ways. For instance; by assembling the parts of the machines on site, to teach the local staffs how to assemble the materials themselves”.
There is also a plan to setup a production plant in Nigeria, and employ Nigerian engineers so that the materials can be manufactured and distributed here.
