Angola’s economy has been expanding rapidly since 2002, and FDI has grown at a rate of 23%.
Since its establishment in 1967, NIKKEN CORPORATION has been one of Japan’s leading construction equipment rental businesses, today renting more than a million units of industrial machinery across the country to clients in the civil engineering and construction sectors. With its commitment to putting “safety and compliance first”, the company operates its business through a network of approximately 250 sales offices throughout Japan as well as facilities where it develops, manufactures, and sells its own products to adapt to the changing needs of customers. In this interview, Seigo Minamioka, President and CEO, explains how NIKKEN CORPORATION looks to promote the reuse and sharing of industrial machinery in line with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Since their formal establishment in 1939 as Japan’s first commercialization of optical interferometric combustible gas indicators dedicated to preventing oil tanker explosion accidents, independent from Japan’s academic research institute, RIKEN KEIKI has grown into a world class developer of industrial gas detection and alarm equipment to prevent gas related disasters. We sat down with president Junichi Koyano to discuss the recent Covid pandemic’s impact on their business, and the firms latest technological innovations.