Although one of Asia’s biggest crane businessmen is now working for Morris, he has spent 20 years working at the forefront of KCI Konecranes in Asia.
In fact, after getting an engineering degree in Canada, Chai Chon Kim started his career in the crane industry working for MHE Demag in Singapore. He switched to Konecranes after three years, and soon was running the business, at the time the company’s primary outpost in Asia.
Then, after moving continents to spend four years working in Australia, he moved to China in 1999, where as managing director of KCI Konecranes (Shanghai) he helped start up the company’s new Shanghai manufacturing facility until 2002.
