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Tanzania: Sweden's Atlas Copco Sets Up in Country
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East African Business Week (Kampala)
28 April 2008
Posted to the web 28 April 2008
Daniel Said
Dar es Salaam
A world leading provider of industrial productivity solutions, Atlas Copco will open its doors in Tanzania this week.
Based in Stockholm, Sweden, Atlas Copco would effective April 28, 2008 open its branch office in Dar es Salaam along Nyerere Road.
Atlas Copco's products and services range from compressed air and gas equipment, generators, construction and mining equipment, industrial tools and assembly statements to related aftermarket and rental and its customers are located almost everywhere on the globe.
The group's global reach spans more than 160 markets, with its own sales operations in about 80 countries. In other countries, the products are marketed through distributors and service networks.
Atlas Copco has 68 production facilities in about 20 countries. Manufacturing is mainly concentrated in Belgium, Sweden, the USA, Germany, France and China.
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Mr. Raphael Kiandiko, Atlas Copco branch manager told East African Business Week in Dar es Salaam last week that the Nairobi office caters for Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Tanzania, Mauritius and Uganda.
According to Kiandiko, the opening of Dar office, apart from creating employment would ease sourcing of construction and mining equipment. Tanzania is leading in region for gold, diamond and Tanzanite mining.
On construction and mining equipment, the group deals in demolition equipment, rock drills, blast hole drilling rigs, large rotary, exploration drilling, underground vehicles, engineering and raise boring equipment.
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