Belgium’s official Hitachi dealer, Luyckx, celebrated its 60th anniversary with its largest ever open house event, which attracted more than 15,000 visitors. A total of 100 machines were on display at the two-day gathering in September, which also marked Luyckx’s 30th year as a Hitachi dealer. These included several new Zaxis-5 models for customers to test drive, as well as the ZH200 hybrid and EX1900-6 mining excavators.
Managing director Jos Luyckx was delighted with the success of the occasion:“Our focus was on the operators, the engineers and their families — everyone was welcome. The theme was ‘See the difference, feel the experience’. It was a good opportunity for our customers to try new machines, including the new ZX250-5, ZX290-5 and ZX350-5, and feel the difference — particularly between the Zaxis-3 and Zaxis-5 models.”
Senior representatives of Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. and Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe) NV also attended the celebrations, along with representatives from other national Hitachi dealers, including the UK, Finland and The Netherlands.
Since 1985, Luyckx has helped the Hitachi brand to establish itself and remain as market leader in the Belgian market for crawler excavators. It recently sold the first EX1900-6 in Belgium, which will be the largest Hitachi machine in the country when it is delivered to Heidelberg Cement next year.
The family-run company, based in Brecht, also prides itself in providing customized solutions and is capable of modifying machines to suit customer requirements at its state-of-the- art 17,000m
2 workshop. “Making the impossible possible is the strength of our company,” says Luyckx.
Luyckx also has locations in Antwerp, Izegem and two mobile product support units based in Dinant. Earlier this year, it opened a branch in Abu Dhabi to support its growing number of customers operating in the oil and gas industry in the Middle East.