09.11.2010

Snorkel confirms Thang Uy

Aerial lift producer Snorkel has confirmed the appointment of Thang Uy Trading & Service as its distributor in Vietnam.

Tanfield has been working with Thang Uy since 2008, but with demand for aerial lifts beginning to grow, the two companies agreed to formalise their partnership. Sales in 2010 have already included an A38E electric articulated boom lift for aircraft maintenance, an S3246E electric scissor lift for lighting repairs, plus the UL40AC and PAM 26DC push-around mast lifts.

Thang Uy was founded in 1999 and supplies Hitachi air compressors and chillers, to industrial sectors including shipyards and steel plants. Elevators and escalators to commercial buildings, hotels and apartment blocks alongside Snorkel self-propelled lifts and Novas truck mounted lifts from Korea.
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The Thang Uy team

Thang Uy offers national coverage from its Northern office in Ha Noi city, Central office in Da Nang city and Southern office in Ho Chi Minh city (Saigon).

Thang Uy’s chief executive Nguyen Quang Hien said: "We are proud to work together with Snorkel, which is a great fit with our existing business. We have strong customer relationships built over 10 years in industrial machine supply and maintenance service business. By combining our capabilities with Snorkel's range, we will develop the Vietnam market and target a leading market share in aerial lifts.”

"Vietnam is a young market for aerial lifts and it share's Snorkel's philosophy of producing machines that are low cost to run and very simple to maintain."

Nick Sowden, vice president of Snorkel's Asia-Pacific operations added: "Thang Uy has everything that we look for in a distributor; a reputation for superb customer care and a blue chip client base.