The 19,000 square metre facility was first established in 2021 and currently has 120 employees. Such is the challenge to employ local skilled labour, more than 50% of the shopfloor employees are originally from outside of Poland from a range of countries, including China, Ukraine, Southeast Asia and Columbia.
The factory, which has received a €10 million investment so far, has an annual capacity of 5,000 scissor lifts and 3,750 boom lifts, once in full use.
Inside the Poznan plant.
Equipment for Europe
Sinoboom’s strategy there involves phasing in European products, combined with ongoing investment in the supply chain outside of China amounting to €60 million over three years. A European research and development team will also be established in Poznan to oversee localised products and final certification of CE equipment.
Components have already been sourced from a range of destinations, including drive motors and counterweights from India, batteries from Vietnam, basket assemblies and chassis from Poland, Deutz batteries from Germany, tyre assemblies from Belgium and a range of valves from Italy, to name a few.
The Poznan plant complement’s Sinoboom BV’s 12,000 square metre head office in Ridderkerk, Netherlands and the group’s head office in Changsha, China, as well as the company’s eight other locations globally and its 1,500 workers worldwide.
European and US-bound products.
In a further addition to the European footprint, the company will set up a base in the UK, which will be centrally located, possibly in Derby. The facility, to be launched in the fourth quarter of this year, will provide sales, service and local stock and take advantage of the UK being outside of the EU and therefore not subject to the tariffs. This means product can be imported directly from China, if required.
Speaking to Access Briefing, Butler added, “We want to have a world-class manufacturing facility here in Poznan, which we’re well on the way towards, with a full product portfolio.
“Then to be a clear leader in the European access industry with product support and innovation in the business.”
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