VMI expands in China
Can making equipment supplier VMI has expanded its plant and offices in Yantai, China.
To celebrate the extension of the VMI Yantai China facilities, the company organised two seminars and an opening ceremony. One was for representatives of the can making industry and the other was for officials from the tyre industry.
Production in the VMI Yantai plant will be focused on these two markets. Both the seminars and the grand opening ceremony attracted a number of attendees from all over the world.
In both seminars speakers from VMI and various companies and organisations gave presentations about their particular products and services. More than 700 people including Chinese and Dutch officials, the Chinese and Dutch management of the VMI Group and the management of their holding company TKH attended the opening ceremony.
VMI Group started its business in China in the early 1980s. VMI Yantai, a fully owned entity of VMI Holland BV was set up in 1996 in anticipation of the increasing business growth in Asia, providing equipment and after sales service for the Asian market.
“The increasing recognition of VMI’s track record as a well reputed manufacturer of can washers, washer ovens and wash coaters combined with the company’s ability to offer cost effective solutions has increased sales to unprecedented levels,” says Johan Jonkman, international sales manager. “In order to continue serving the market to the high levels of excellence expected by VMI’s customers, the decision to further expand facilities in China was made. An assembly hall with a footprint of 7,200m2 was completed in August and increases the size of the VMI Yantai facilities to almost 30,000m2.”