LAAD 2013: ST steps up Latin American engagement
Singapore-based ST Kinetics is making a push for military business in South America and is searching for local partners to pursue acquisition programmes.
Speaking to Shephard at the LAAD exhibition in Rio de Janeiro, the chief marketing officer at the company, Patrick Choy, said that ST Kinetics is ‘shopping’ to invest in local companies or is ‘prepared to set up facilities’ itself to increase access to the region.
He believes that new capital equipment programmes in the land sector are few in the current economic climate but there is scope to get involved in the upgrade and maintenance, repair and
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