Zoomlion New Rough Terrain Crane

The new range of Rough Terrain cranes has to be by far the most exciting new range that has come out of Zoomlion recently.  This market segment has in the past being dominated by the Japanese and American brands and now the Chinese have entered this market.

The Japanese brands being Tadano Kato and Kobelco with only Tadano being exported new from Japan.  The American RT’s being Grove and Terrex in real terms have being the newer entrants into Southern Africa market and have being extremely successful due to shorter delivery lead time and competitive prices.

The rough Terrain market in Southern Africa has always seen a very large percentage of new cranes imported into South Africa and therefore as a new entrant that can supply a high quality product at the lowest price in the market, I believe will have a similar success as the Truck cranes did as they took up as much as 25% of the entire crane industry sales.

The Zoomlion American agent has just placed an order for 40 units and the first shipment of RT cranes is already on the way to America. The range at present is 55 ton with 35 ton, 75 ton and at a later stage 25 ton and 100 ton will be launched for international sales shortly.

ANE to date has being highly successful in the sale of Rough Terrain Cranes but these have being used Kobelco units from Japan, as Kobelco Japan do not export new cranes. ANE will therefore now import and sell new Zoomlion RT cranes.

BOTASIA

BOTSWANA takes delivery of new  Zoomlion QY20H

Botasia, a Chinese construction company, recently took delivery of a new QY20H 20 TON mobile crane. The construction demand in Botswana is extremely high and Botasia who have had Zoomlion cranes in China were happy to extend the fleet with another Zoomlion crane.

Chinese Delegation Visit South Africa

ANE Equipment Rental & Sales recently had the pleasure of hosting a delegation of HUNAN Province Government Officials and ZOOMLION Senior Management in Durban.

A meeting was arranged at the Hilton Hotel, Durban with members of the Chinese Delegation together with members of the MEC’s Office (KZN), Trade & Industry KZN and Durban Chamber of Commerce & Industry.

An afternoon of positive discussions was had with strong links made for future developments between the two countries provinces. The Hunan province wishes to encourage co operation between Zoomlion and ANE to develop in South Africa and will be looking at opportunities of funding projects in South Africa for mutual benefit.

Once all formalities and business discussions were over, dinner was enjoyed by all in the evening.

The next morning the Delegation went on to visit Cape Town and Sun City and thereafter moved North to visit various other African countries.

Zoomlion Arrive In SA

April month has being filled with the staff from Zoomlion China arriving in South Africa.
They are busy finding residential place to stay and offices to work from.  It would appear that they have found office space in Sandton and have decided to use ANE JHB premises for the new spare parts warehouse; they have requested that we build a separate parts warehouse for them.

This parts warehouse we plan to have ready for when the shipment of spare parts arrives in SA.
The team have being out visiting some existing clients and will be visiting every Zoomlion client in SA to introduce themselves and to inform you of the new products lines coming into SA from Zoomlion Group.

The ZOOMLION Product range is very large and diverse.  The product lines that ZOOMLION will introduce to the SA market are:

• ZOOMLION Tower Cranes
• ZOOMLION Bulldozers
• ZOOMLION Asphalt road construction equipment
• ZOOMLION Sanitation range
• ZOOMLION Earth moving equipment
• ZOOMLION Specialized equipment
• ZOOMLION Concrete Range

ANE Equipment Rental & Sales will continue to be the sole agents for Mobile and Crawler cranes.

(from left to right)  

Mr Tan Zhengquan - Crawler crane technician, Mr Mike Yang - Service Manager South Africa, Ms Carolyn Chen - Administration South Africa, Mr Jacob Wang - Sales Manager South Africa, Mr Chaucer Chen - President ZOOMLION International, Mr Felix He Yong - General Manager South Africa, Mr Buster Xin Zhang - Mobile crane technician