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INTERACTION CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT

We at CRCHI would like to be the

preferred partner for TBM’s

Founded in 2007, China Railway Construction Heavy Industry Corporation Ltd. (CRCHI)
is a large and professional equipment manufacturer specialized in developing and
producing smart tunnelling equipment and high-end rail transit system. In an exclusive
interview to CONSTRUCTION OPPORTUNITIES, DANIEL YANG, REGIONAL MANAGER- SOUTH ASIA,
CHINA RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION HEAVY INDUSTRY CORPORATION LTD (CRCHI), speaks about his
company’s journey, USP’s and a lot more.
Tell us about journey in the Indian market our local service team. Especially during the pandemic our Chinese
Actually since 2010 the Indian construction equipment market service team couldn’t travel to India during that time we started
has been booming on account of latest technologies and localizing our service team here. Now we have over 50 engineers
quality. Chinese equipment manufacturers entered the Indian to service our machines throughout India in Delhi, Mumbai, Patna,
market as the economy was improving and as huge infrastructure Bengaluru and Chennai. Apart from this we also have our spare
opportunities existed in India in terms of tunnelling, high speed rail, parts depots to ensure fast spare parts are made available in case
metro rail we also decided to enter the Indian market. Now we required.
are in touch with most of the companies and since 2018 have
penetrated the Indian market. Since the last 4 to 5 years we have What sort of initiatives do you undertake to train your engineers
done very well and sold 15 machines. We have in fact sold the First of all we employ experienced engineers. We also allow our
largest machine of 12 meter diameter for the Mumbai Coastal local experienced engineers to interact freely with our designers
Road project. so that they understand the features of our machines and the
latest technologies imbibed. This direct interaction helps in clear
Why do customers choose your products over your competitors communication and avoids any sort of confusion which helps our
We have huge advantages over our competitors, firstly CRCHI is a engineers in solving any issue during the projects.
group company of China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC)
which is one of the leading tunnelling company in the world. We Tell us about your new break throughs
have very deep association with CRCC in terms of testing our For Bengaluru metro, we did 3 new break troughs in the last 3
technology, quality, stability etc hence our machines are already months. Infact BMRCL had opined that no TBM will come out in
passed by world class tunnelling company. Secondly we built up one piece, but we did that thrice and one more machines will

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