Tipping point

摘要

Terex AWP, better known by its brand name Genie, has had a presence in China since the mid-1990s. It started out selling big telescopic boom platforms to Chinese shipyards, building its business up to a point in 2010 when it opened a dedicated access platform factory in Changzhou. It is a mark of how far the business has come that today the Changzhou factory is Genie's global production centre for shipyard booms. On the regional level, it also builds numerous other models for sale throughout Asia-Pacific and of course has a big focus on the potentially huge Chinese market. Despite a continued slow-down in the Chinese construction market, the ramping-up of production for the wider region has seen big changes over the last year at the 278,000 ft~2 (26,000 m~2) facility, as general manager Clint Weber explained.