16 Road Rollers from SINOMACH-HI (Luoyang) to Leave for Zambia
Yesterday afternoon, in the yard of China SINOMACH-HI Building Industry (Luoyang) Co., Ltd (Hereinafter referred to as Luojian), 16 road rollers coated in jasper were decorated with big red flowers. After several hours, they would leave Luoyang to be shipped to the faraway Zambia. It was said that these machines were just a part of the export project to Zambia (First stage) of SINOMACH-HI (Luoyang).
A technician in his seventies: Touching the wheels with reluctance
Yesterday afternoon, on the square in front of the office building of SINOMACH-HI (Luoyang), 16 road roller coated in jasper were ready to leave. The words of "LUOYANG" in the front of the vehicles were striking and attracted quite a lot of people to surround for watching.
"This order is from Zambia of 22 road rollers in total and the first delivery is 16.”Li Wei, the manager of the key account department, told the correspondent that the 16 road rollers for export this time were mainly three types, single drum, double drum and rubber drum, which could be used for different pavement construction.
Before the departure ceremony, many workers in work clothes passing by took out their phones to take photos with these vehicles one after another as mementos. Xu Musheng is 73 years' old, who is an old technician re-employed after his retirement of the institute of stone pressing machinery which is belonged to the company. He said that he had been working in Luojian for all his life and never left the production and his daily routine was to trial-produce various types of machines based on drawing, who could be regarded as the founder of this batch of products.
"Watching them is just like watching the food harvested by a year's hardship as a farmer,” said Mr. Xu touching the wheels.
Painter: More decorations for vehicles just like providing a wedding for the daughter
At 17:20, the departure ceremony began formally when tens of workers gathered around the square took out their phones to record this moment one by another.
At the moment, in a relatively quiet corner of the place, Ning Xianna, the chairman of the labor union of spray painting workshop who had been working as a painter for 21 years, was holding two bottles of oil paint and repairing painting of the vehicles to be exported. She painted them evenly even a gap of a screw.
"It will departure. Our girls shall be beautiful. "Ning said that because the caliber of the spray gun was relative bigger so some small areas were coated unevenly, where painting repairing was needed.
Significance
"Inspirational Order" during the "winter" of the Industry
"This order, for us, not only stands for benefits, but also hopes." At the scene of the departure ceremony, Feng Ziling, the general manager of Luojian, told the correspondent that the 16 road rollers in front of them would depart for Africa after a few hours. What beyond this batch of road rollers produced and finished in 25 days was the endeavor of Luojian people for as long as a year.
According to the introduction of Feng Ziling, since 2011, the engineering machinery has stepped into a "winter" period, when Luojian, a century-old plant founded in 1904, was also affected. However, from establishing a key account department aimed at key clients to build a system of project responsibility throughout the whole process of marketing, production, and sales, Luojian has come to today step by step. With the joint efforts of all people, Luo finally got several oversea orders. "Only in August we should deliver 46 vehicles to oversea clients.”Feng said that this allow Luojian people who had been in the overall environment of the industry in worse times to see hope.
"Last year, the sales volume of our plant was about 1,200. This year we are confident to keep this performance. "Feng said to the correspondent that, after integration, the company was merged into SINOMACH Group. Luojian will exploit the group superiorities and fully utilize the technology and channel resources of SINOMACH Group as well as trying to maintain previous marketing channel, in order to find its breakthrough of "industrial winter".