TH White joins Sany network: fleet support implications for UK plant owners
Reviewed by Joe Ashwell
First reported on The Construction Index
30 Second Briefing
TH White has been appointed authorised Sany Heavy Machinery UK dealer for construction machinery sales, service and parts across the West Midlands and parts of the southwest, replacing Worcester-based forklift specialist MSM DRH after five years. The move plugs Sany’s excavators and other construction machines into TH White’s existing portfolio of Manitou, Mecalac and New Holland equipment plus Palfinger cranes, giving contractors a single supplier for mixed fleets. For plant owners, the key change is access to Sany support through TH White’s established construction-focused sales and service teams.
Technical Brief
- Appointment covers Sany construction machinery sales, service and parts across West Midlands and parts of southwest.
- MSM DRH exits the role after a five‑year term as regional Sany dealer.
- MSM DRH’s core capability is forklift trucks rather than heavy construction plant support.
- TH White brings more than 40 years’ service history with construction-sector customers into the Sany network.
- Existing TH White portfolio already includes Manitou, Mecalac, New Holland construction kit and Palfinger cranes.
- Sany Heavy Machinery UK senior vice president Ming Xu and TH White chief executive Alexander Scott formally signed the agreement.
- TH White’s agriculture, construction, dairy and groundcare division will host the Sany franchise under director Adrian Lovegrove.
Our Take
Sany’s appointment of TH White in the United Kingdom comes as the OEM is also pushing battery-electric heavy trucks into mining haulage, as seen in the Solarh2e deployment in Australia, signalling that dealers with deep construction-sector experience may soon be expected to support more complex electrified fleets.
Within our Infrastructure coverage, Sany appears more frequently in relation to heavy equipment for energy and mining logistics than other Chinese OEMs, so a stronger UK dealer presence via TH White could position it to capture work on materials-handling and port projects tied to those sectors.
TH White’s four decades of construction-sector service in the West Midlands places it in a region with dense logistics and manufacturing activity, which typically generates steady demand for lift trucks and telehandlers on brownfield expansion and maintenance projects rather than only on large new-build sites.
Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.
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