The 10th Anniversary Celebration of Weichai and KION Group

2022-10-25 14:36:37

On Oct 12th, the 10th Anniversary Celebration of Weichai and KION Group was held in KION Jinan Laiwu plant. Jinan Municipal government, KION Group, Weichai Power, Shandong Heavy Industry and many well-known media witnessed KION and Weichai’s ten-year partnership and fruitful highlight moment together. The Deputy Secretary of the Jinan Municipal Party Committee and Mayor Yu Haitian, Shandong Heavy Industry and Weichai Power Chairman Tan Xuguang, KION Group CEO Rob Smith, Member of KION Executive Board and President & CEO KION ITS Asia Pacific & Americas Chingpong Quek, and other leaders and guests attended the event.

At the event, a wonderful video vividly showed the glorious mark of KION and Weichai cooperation for 10 years. Rob Smith, CEO of KION Group, deeply summarized that “KION is growing up in China”. From the listed in Germany, to the integration of Dematic, to the KION Jinan Intelligent Experience Center, KION Group established global value product technology research and development center in China to provide more and more flexible products and material handling solutions for the Chinese market, also provide a powerful engine for KION’s sustainable development on a global scale.

As an important strategic partner of KION Group, Tan Xuguang, Chairman of Shandong Heavy Industry Group and Weichai Power, said that “the strategic hand in hand between KION and Weichai has created a model of cooperation between Chinese and German enterprises. In the past ten years, the two sides, adhering to the concept of openness and win-win, have given full play to each other’s professional and resource advantages, and made great progress in mutual integration and promotion.”

Yu Haitian, Deputy Secretary of the Jinan Municipal Party Committee and Mayor of Jinan, said in his speech: “The sincere cooperation between Weichai and KION has not only won extraordinary development performance for both parties, but also established a firm friendship between us, sharing weal and woe, and working side by side, making Jinan a true ‘second hometown’ of KION.”

In Shandong, the focus of the domestic market of KION and Weichai, the KION Jinan intelligent plant that has been put into operation and the KION Jinan Dematic modern plant and technology center that will be launched soon will fully meet the needs of Chinese customers and empower the development of the industry with smart logistics. Chingpong Quek, Member of KION Executive Board and President & CEO KION ITS Asia Pacific & Americas, mentioned in his speech: “As the green wisdom industry city of Shandong Heavy Industry (Jinan Laiwu), an important part of the whole industry chain, KION Jinan develops ‚technology engine‘ with 100 years of German research and development experience. Together with Weichai, we help Jinan replance its old drivers with new ones, jointly promote the domestic and international double circulation to enable the upgrading of China’s logistics.”

During the celebration, KION Group and Weichai Power jointly lit KION China Forklift Landscape Tower, which represents the strength of cooperation between the two parties. This 24-meter-high, 6-floor tower stands in the KION Jinan plant. It fully testifies to the strong strength and determination of both KION Group and Weichai Power to explore the Chinese market, and jointly pushes the construction of modern intelligent logistics in China from blueprint to reality.

The 10th Anniversary Celebration of Weichai and KION Group
On Oct 12th, the 10th Anniversary Celebration of Weichai and KION Group was held in KION Jinan Laiwu plant. Jinan Municipal government, KION Group, Weichai Power, Shandong Heavy Industry and many well-known media witnessed KION and Weichai’s ten-year partnership and fruitful highlight moment together. The Deputy Secretary of the Jinan Municipal Party Committee and Mayor Yu Haitian, Shandong Heavy Industry and Weichai Power Chairman Tan Xuguang, KION Group CEO Rob Smith, Member of KION Executive Board and President & CEO KION ITS Asia Pacific & Americas Chingpong Quek, and other leaders and guests attended the event.