São Paulo – Randon, a Brazilian road implement manufacturing company, is going to showcase its products at the 44th Algiers International Fair (FIA, in the French acronym), due June 1st to 6th in the Algerian capital. The company assembles and distributes its equipment in the Arab country and will be represented, at the fair by the Associated Car & Truck Specialist Sarl (ACTS), its partner in the operation. The perspectives for the company, in the region, are good.
“Algeria is a very strategic market for North Africa, we have been working in the region since the 1970s. In 2011, the government is expected to invest in new houses, water desalination plants, power plants, 4,500 kilometres of new roads, and expansion of the Port of Oran. The investment in infrastructure, coupled with the country’s political stability, translates into a promise of good business in Algeria in coming years,” claims the director of technology and export at Randon, Cesar Pissetti.
At the fair, the company will showcase a three-axle platform weighing 32 tonnes, a two-axle, 20 cubic-metre dump trailer, a two-axle, 27 cubic-metre tank trailer for fuel transport, and a carry-all, multipurpose, three axle, 40-tonne trailer, a two-axle, 27 cubic-metre silo for cement and lime transport.
According to information supplied by Randon, last year, the company sold 584 units in Algeria. The products are shipped knocked-down from Brazil and assembled in the Arab country. According to the company, the equipment includes dry cargo, dumpers, tanks, carry-all, siders and road silos. Randon has been operating in Algeria since 1977, when it won a tender and supplied 1,005 semitrailers to the state-owned Société Nationale des Transports Routiers (SNTR).
According to information supplied by Randon, Algeria is implementing its five-year economic growth support plan, launched by the government for the 2010-to-2014 period, during which US$ 286 billion will be invested, mainly in infrastructure. Good perspectives in this sector usually have a good influence on business for Randon.
The Randon group comprises nine companies, active in the segments of trailers, railway wagons and special vehicles, auto parts, automobile systems and services. The company is headquartered in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, but maintains operations in other Brazilian states and overseas. Randon is the leading manufacturer of trailers and semitrailers in Latin America, and ranks among the world’s largest.
The FIA, a multisector fair, is held at the Palais des Expositions de Argel, which covers a 68-hectare area. In 2010, the event featured 835 foreign exhibitors from 43 different countries, six of which were in the Americas: the United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Cuba and Chile.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum