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INTERACTION POST EXCON 2019

No one can stop the infrastructure progress of India

LiuGong India, recently completed 10 years of successful manufacturing in India. The continuous
strive to come up with robust and technologically advanced products has made LiuGong a name
to reckon with in CE industry. The company has come up with its material handling vertical recently.
NISCHAL MEHROTRA, DIRECTOR - SALES & SERVICE, LIUGONG INDIA PVT LTD in an exclusive interview
to CONSTRUCTION OPPORTUNITIES speaks about the products launched during EXCON 2019, market
scenario, entering into MHE, introducing new products for India and the path ahead.

Take us through the products launched and their features at of fuel, electric driven machinery will be the future. We are
EXCON 2019 waiting for the Indian market to mature in that direction and are
In this edition of EXCON, we have come up with 2 new range aiming to introduce the same for Indian market in the next 2-3
of excavators- 23 tonne and 26 tonne class. Both the machines years.
are equipped with the Cummins engines. The 26 tonne excavator We have also developed wheel loader that can be operated
is being promoted due to its long boom. It is especially used at without manual intervention. One can operate the machine from
mining sites and at stone quarry. The long boom has a reach of his office. This has been already carried out with the usage of 5G
50-60 ft and there are considerable amount of demands for the systems in China. Once the 5G internet bandwidth is available
same from the customers. We have already supplied some of our in India we could bring the same to the doorstep of the Indian
customers with the boom having range of 60 feet.
market. These machines can be used in hazardous conditions
Also, from this year, Liugong has planned to enter into the material where human presence can be risky. In a way we are ready with
handling vertical and that has brought us to launch our truck our solutions for the market. We are working on the pricing part as
mounted cranes. We have launched our 60 tonne crane and such machines come with a slightly higher price.
in future we are planning to come up with the 125 tonne crane.
What are the future plans of Liugong and how does the parent
How satisfied are you with the participation for EXCON 2019? company look at the Indian market?
There is a lot of hope and opportunities as the government is We have lot of hopes from the Indian market. Our parent company
planning to pump in more funds and have come up with some in China want’s to look at Liugong India as an export hub. As of
innovative ideas to bring the industry back on track. We are quite today, we are supplying our machines to Nepal and Bangladesh.
hopeful that within a shorter span the slump will phase out and In the coming years we plan to export our machines to some
things will have a positive change. However the organizers need parts of the South East Asia. Later in 2021, we plan to move to the
to take care of the basic facilities and traffic congestion issues that countries of Middle East and African countries.
have been going on for a while. If we claim to be an international We have currently 5 types of equipment that we have been selling
exhibition of huge stature then that should be seen from the in India of the total 16 that we can offer. As of now we are working
services provided to the OEM’s that are participating at the expo.
with the wheel loader, excavators, motor grader, compactor,
Telematics and technology have gone ahead in the recent times. forklifts, compactors and the dozers for the Indian market. In the
What is your take on this? last month we launched a new company- OVM as under this
We have launched electric wheel loaders and excavators in name we are globally placed in the second position for the cable
Beijing. India is paying tremendous amount of money on the fuel stay bridges. As India is going for series of bridges, we have come
that needs to be imported. With the aim to reduce the usage up with the same to cater to the Indian market.

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