Jaidah Heavy Equipment, a subsidiary of the Jaidah Group, organised a four-day sales and service seminar in Doha, in conjunction with one of its closest trading partners, Palfinger, which hosted the event.Palfinger, founded in 1932 in Austria, and now headquartered in Salzburg, has among its primary products hydraulic loading cranes, container handling systems, forestry and recycling cranes, forklifts, aerial work platforms, lift gates, marine and offshore solutions, and railway applications.The company exports over 90% of its products, with the Middle East region one of its primary markets. Jaidah Heavy Equipment is the exclusive distributor for Palfinger in Qatar.Sales and service managers from Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, and attended the event. The companies represented were Al Shawaf, AES, Almoayyed, Al Masaood, DEERA, Guima, MBB, Jaidah and Palfinger.The discussions were focused on a number of industry-related topics, including heavy plant products such as cranes, skip loaders, aerial platforms and accessories.Sales and service training, service management, warranty handling, and spare-parts centres were also discussed.Thomas Schwaiger, area sales manager Palfinger, expressed his gratitude to Jaidah Heavy Equipment for extending the use of their training facility for the very productive event.Mohamed Jaidah, chief development officer of Jaidah Group, stated that Jaidah has enjoyed a long and mutually prosperous business relationship with Palfinger and expressed his delight in hosting the seminar on their behalf in Doha. “Palfinger is an expert in its field – as evidenced by its world-class products – so the delegates have learned a lot about some really cutting edge-developments in the plant industry at the event last week,” he said.For more than 30 years, Jaidah Group’s Heavy Equipment division has prided itself on its ability to provide up to date products, parts and service solutions covering transportation, construction machinery and material handling equipment needs in numerous major projects around Qatar.