HIMOINSA AND ITS DISTRIBUTORS IN ASIA PACIFIC ARE READY TO MEET THE GROWING DEMAND FOR GAS GENERATOR SETS

APAC REPRESENTS 50% OF THE GLOBAL DEMAND FOR GAS POWER GENERATION

According to the latest reports by Frost & Sullivan, the market for gas power generation will be worth nearly $9 billion in 2019, with 50% of this volume in the Asia Pacific market. In 2012 alone 8,000 units were sold and that figure is expected to rise to 21,000 in 2019.With an annual growth of over 13%, the market for gas power generation in Asia Pacific is mainly focused on the indus-trial, commercial and residential sectors with 70%, 20% and 10% respectively. With this in mind, HIMOINSA’s distri-butors operating in Indonesia, New Zealand, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar,

Laos, Philippines, Australia, Vietnam, Malaysia and Taiwan attended the technical seminar offered by HIMOINSA, through its sales subsidiary in Singapo-re, for detailed information on the exten-sive range of gas generators presented by the company and further analyse the energy needs of this market.

Some Asian countries such as Bangla-desh imported more than $200 million worth of gas generator sets in 2011, according to UM Comtrade Import Data. Manuel Aguilera, Gas Product Manager at HIMOINSA, is convinced that coun-tries like Singapore, China, Indonesia, Australia and Japan are leading the demand for gas generators, for which “HIMOINSA has developed an extensive range of generator sets with natural gas, LPG and biogas engines; with power output ranging from 20 kW to 3.5 MW, powered by environmentally friendly fuels, using engines manufactured by renowned brands to ensure lower noise, less vibration, lower emissions and redu-ced maintenance and operation costs”.Among the distributors attending the

Gas generatorset market in APAC.

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seminar, were major companies like PT Bach Multi Global, Power Plant Supplies, Gateway Intertrade, RMA Service, Energetix Power Technologies, Prime Power Energy System, Generator Power Pty, Commelins Machinery, PMG Joint

Stock Company, Ampmech Sdn Bhd, LLC SKA Motors and Yeh Huei Enterprise Co., Ltd. All of them showed great interest in the maintenance conditions of the equipment, replacement parts, delivery times, etc. Regarding these issues Ray Goh, Business Executive at HIMOINSA Far East, gave assurances, explaining that "there is a consolidated business structure to ensure a rapid response to the market”. The fact that HIMOINSA is a vertical manufacturer allows the company to incorporate within its range of gas-powered generators, generator sets

with components that are manufactured by HIMOINSA. Alternators, canopies, controllers, etc., designed according to the highest levels of quality demanded by the market. “Our gas generators are equipped with controllers allowing

stand-alone and parallel work. Any imaginable parallel configuration can be configured and managed. "Load balancing, peak shaving, load base, etc., everything is perfectly controlled to ensure synchronized running of multiple generator sets operating in parallel", added Manuel Aguilera. Marco Perillo, General Manager at HIMOINSA Far East, welcomed the guests to this technical seminar, taking them on a tour of the more than 30 years of history at the company. Beside him, Juan Ignacio Perona, Sales Area Manager, focused on presenting to the

Asia Pacific market, the range of APOLO lighting towers, which have a light output reaching 1,320,000 lumens. Some of the models in the range can illuminate up to 110,000 square feet and work up to 166 hours non-stop; 17 nights without refuelling. With the demand for lighting towers standing at 5,000 units annually in APAC, Australia, Indonesia and Singapore they have become major markets for HIMOINSA's lighting tower division.

ENERGY ENGINEERING FORUM

Manuel Aguilera, Gas Product Manager, took part in the round table organised at the Energy Engineering Forum, held in Madrid last November, where representatives of major international companies unveiled their energy solutions, primarily in the markets of Latin America and the Middle East. Aguilera, highlighted the solutions offered by HIMOINSA and referred to the major gas projects on which the company has worked in Latin America, where among others, it has supplied LPG generators to important salmon farms in Chile.