07.06.2022

LGMG expands European support team

Chinese aerial lift manufacturer LGMG has added three new recruits to its European support team.

The move follows the appointment of Wim de Jong as operations director in April and Carsten Sacher as sales manager for Germany in February of this year

The latest appointments include: Roland Faber as head of the European service department, Harold van der Made, as training manager for Europe and Christian Fuchs as service manager Germany, Austria , Switzerland and the Czech Republic.

Roland Faber joins the company after a total of more than 26 years with Dutch international sales and rental group Riwal, where his most recent role was technical manager. He began his career with Riwal in 1991 as a field service engineer, leaving at the end of 1998 for a similar role at rental company Gjaltema Verhuur. Around two years later he move to Niftylift distributor Eurosupply, finally re-joining Riwal in 2004 as a product specialist. And was promoted to international technical specialist in 2015.
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Roland Faber

Harold van der Made joins the team after almost nine years with Genie, where he was product & technical trainer. van der Made began his career in 1997 with van den Maagdenberg as a fitter-turner, leaving after six years for HVAC specialist van Alphen en Roest where he was an installer. At the end of 2004 he switched to the fork lift industry, joining Bresam-Heftrucks. In 2007 he entered the aerial lift market as a field service engineer with Haulotte. At the end of 2012 he switched back to the fork lift market as workshop manager for Van Geel Heftrucks, but just a year later returned to the access market with Genie.
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Harold van der Made

Christian Fuchs joins LGMG from Skyjack where he has been a product support engineer for the past three years. He began his access career in 2016 as a service manager with Ahern Deutschland, leaving for Skyjack three years later.
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Christian Fuchs

European region sales director Kevin Liu said: “LGMG Europe has, and continues to grow very quickly, and therefore we need to support our customers with the right people in the company. I am delighted to be able to welcome all our new colleagues to the team. We look forward to continuing this growth with their ongoing support.”

Vertikal Comment

It is interesting to see what appears to be a steady shift, particularly in Europe, of some highly experienced, long serving and knowledgeable individuals from the major western manufacturers to the top three Chinese manufacturers.

In some earlier cases the transfers followed headcount reductions at major manufacturers that occurred during the early days of the pandemic, while others are less obvious. What it does appear to be doing is providing the new market entrants with a solid talent pool from which to build on. At the other end of the equation some manufacturers have clearly lost a significant slice of their knowledge and experience base.