The African Business Journal: FEIL

FEIL
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admin on 16 June, 2010 02:38:00
 
For years, Kenyan-based Farm Engineering Industries Ltd (FEIL) have been an
important ally to farmers in the East and Central Africa farming, having made
significant contributions to both for since opening in 1984. The company is well
known in its region, having established itself as leading providers of reliable
products.
FEIL is a manufacturer and distributor of agricultural, forestry, mining,
construction and commercial transport for East and Central Africa region,
providing equipment for the hundreds of companies operation in the area who
depend on reliable, cost efficient and top-class equipment to for their
businesses to succeed. Bell equipment, Claas equipment, custom built trailers
for all applications, Hyundai equipment, and Sonalika tractors are the
company’s most popular products.
“We support whatever we manufacture or supply for the life of the product.
Our back-up service and parts supply make us dependable,” beams Jit
Bhurji, executive Chairman for FEIL. FEIL is an integral player in the Kenya
agricultural sector and, by introducing suitable and reliable products in the
market, has enabled its customers to compete in the international markets using
FEIL products and services.
Being familiar with the local market, FEIL’s success is founded on
identifying a need for high quality products at reasonable prices, a passion
that drives the company every day. “The company’s management team is
committed to quality and every product is rigorously inspected to ensure that it
meets with the company’s own stringent requirements and where appropriate
and with KBS and ISO standards,” says Bhurji.
Modern facilities
Clients can find FEIL products at the Kisumu headquarters or branches in Nairobi
and Kampala. The Kisumu office is an impressive, ultra-modern, 150,000 square
foot premise that houses the fabrication, machine shop, mechanical workshop,
store, showroom and offices. Abuzz with activity, the headquarters are designed
so that each division can work in tandem with each other, and clients’
needs can be met quickly and efficiently.
On seven sprawling acres, the Kisumu facility is the unarguably one of the
finest facilities in East Africa, and is designed and equipped to handle the
gamut of jobs and solutions charged to the company. The facility provides the
site for the company’s training centre, whereby employees receive
state-of-the-art career upgrading or initial training to work for the FEIL team.
FEIL strategically situated the Kampala facility so that it could benefit from
being in the heart of the industrial area. This facility also boasts a fully
equipped machine shop, fabrication facilities which have ten tons single lift
serving them, as well as CAD equipment and another training center.
The Nairobi branch is equipped to deal with any and all product and technical
support, up to and including the Mombasa and Central Kenyan region.
Beautiful atmosphere
FEIL is cognisant of their role in the environmental movement and strive to be
stewards of responsible business in Kenya, a mentality that is engrained in the
company’s policy to maintain large gardens at all the FEIL facilities. 
“We believe in keeping the environment clean and natural, and having
gardens in every facility contributes to our policy, of being close and
respectful to nature,” says Bhurji.
Quality and dependability
FEIL has grown its brand to be synonymous with quality and dependability. FEIL
has an intimate familiarity with the needs of its clients because it operates in
their regions, and is not simply shipping in equipment from overseas. Moreover,
every trailer and body produced by FEIL is custom built to the exact
requirements and specifications for the customer, so that it may be used to the
highest efficiency. Clients work closely with FEIL engineers to develop
equipment to their exact mechanical and financial specifications. It is this
close attention to detail that continues to make FEIL a trusted partner in the
farming, agricultural, forestry, mining and construction industries.
“We are making efforts to research and develop today in order to
consolidate our image for growth within the region,” says Bhurji. To do
so, FEIL assiduously maintains dedication to the most state-of-the-art
technologies because they know they must deliver the best to meet their
clients’ requirements.
“FEIL will make every effort to develop advance technologies and produce
high quality products through drastic investment in research and development.
For us at FEIL the first worry has always been that of giving our customers a
high quality product along with a prompt reliable service,” says Bhurji.
Service and after sales
FEIL has long recognized that a first class support service is vital to those
investing in our equipment. “We want to become a leading supplier of
Agricultural and Construction equipment, in the east African region, by
providing not only the equipment but complete solutions to the clients,”
say Bhurji. The company policy is to provide the client with the very best in
all aspects of customer support. As an East African company, FEIL is easy to
contact and their full range of expertise is available to help its clients
obtain maximum benefit from their machine without costly delays, and as such,
provide a vital service to the Kenyan business community at large.
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