28.08.2012

New equipment business in Belgium

Philippe Parmentier and Hervé Missiaen have teamed up to found a new powered access and used equipment distributor HM&P International.

Based in Wargem near Gent, the new company incorporates Missiaen’s HM International an importer and exporter of telehandlers and rough terrain fork trucks since 2002 and combines it with Parmentier’s knowledge of the access market.
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Philippe Parmentier and Hervé Missiaen

The two partners plan to offer customers an easy to deal with multilingual service providing new and used aerial lifts, fork trucks and telehandlers. The two believe that their knowledge and experience will help them assist buyers with finding the right equipment at the right price and then making sure that it is well supported.

Parmentier has spent over 15 years in the access industry working with TVH, the replacement parts business, in rental and used equipment sales with DK Rental and with Genie as used equipment sales manager.

Missiaen has owned and managed a number of businesses since the early 1990’s most of which have been involved with new and used fork truck sales and service.