CIMC launches UK-based engineering and customer support centre

CIMC Tank has launched an engineering and customer support centre “with a market focus on intermodal tanks for the bulk transport of dangerous goods and food grade products”, it announced in a statement.

The new UK-based centre will be jointly managed by Alex McGonagle (Engineering) and Mike Himbury (R&D), supported by Alex Edwards, Phil Brookfield and Martyn Wood, all of whom were formerly with UBH International Ltd. 

The statement said: “CIMC Tank has had close ties with UBH for twenty years and is pleased to be in a position to take this next step.”

Headquartered in Nantong, China, CIMC develops and delivers various tank containers for the safe transport of bulk liquid, gas and powder internationally. It serves all the major tank operators and leasing companies around the world, contributing nearly 50 per cent of the current global operation fleet.

CIMC Tank has also bought all UBH’s Intellectual Property (IP) as well as the trade name. It said:  “The core UBH technical team will bring together key global industry knowhow and experience accumulated over the last 30 years, which would certainly further enhance CIMC Tank’s leading position in the global tank market in multiple areas, including capacity, quality, flexibility, technical expertise and customer service etc.”

CIMC Tank’s General Manager Ji Guoxiang said he is “very pleased” to welcome the UBH technical team on board, and he believes that the CIMC Tank business platform “will provide the team with better support and opportunities for them grow and realise themselves.” 

Guoxiang added that the team will also reinforce CIMC Tank’s leading position, “and more importantly synergy will be generated to better serve the customers with more professional and timely services.”

For more information visit www.cimctank.com

10th February 2020