Derbyshire Engineers Street Crane Expand into China

Chapel-en-le-Frith based Street Crane Company, the UK’s largest industrial crane maker, has agreed a licensing deal with Nanjing Hoisting Machinery General Works Company Limited (NHM).   Under the agreement NHM will produce equipment to Street specifications for supply to any part of the Peoples Republic of China.

Street managing director, Andrew Pimblett explained, “This is a win-win deal that gives Street Crane access to China’s booming economy.  The deal comes as leading manufacturers from around the world set up plants and joint ventures in China, often requiring cranes of western specification.  NHM will benefit from Street Crane’s experience and technology while our broader distribution will underpin our already strong UK operations.”

Under the agreement Street Crane are providing technical assistance, training and design software to NHM.  A team of Street Crane engineers will be working in China over the next 12 months to help the skilled NHM team to familiarise themselves with western design techniques and quality standards.  Once production commences in June 2007, Street Crane will directly employ Chinese nationals at the NHM plant for quality assurance certification.

NHM will offer a complete Street Crane line of overhead travelling cranes from the 2 – 25 tonnes, extending to 50 tonnes in 2008/9.  They will have access to Street Cranes expertise and software to meet the handling needs of all branches of industry from foundries to aerospace. 

In addition to being at the centre of one of China’s growth hot spots, NHM have sales offices in all major industrial areas allowing them to easily service demands for Street Crane equipment.  A new 145,000 square metre factory is under construction that will provide first class working conditions and will be located in a new sustainable industrial town beside the Yangtze River designed on the highest environmental standards.

Street Crane already works successfully with partners in North America, Australia, and The Gulf and other developing areas.   These arrangements, and production at their Derbyshire factory, are unaffected by the Chinese agreement.  “The rate of industrialisation and economic development in China over the last decade has been staggering.  We are happy to be part of this development and confident that our new partners at NHM will strengthen the Street Crane brand further,” concluded Andrew Pimblett.
	   

More information: 
Gus Zona, Street Crane Company, Tel. 00 44 1298 812456 Fax. 00 44 1298 814 945
E-Mail: admin@streetcrane.co.uk Web: www.streetcrane.co.uk

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July 17, 2006