Nimr automotive is here in Bangkok, exhibiting at the defense and security exhibition
Nimr Auto Motive has for some time now been expanding into the international markets with a continued expansion into Eastern Europe
with our partnerships with in the Czech Republic is pursuing several tenders in Eastern Europe
And here in Bangkok in Thailand shows Nimr's expansion into the South East Asian market where we have two of our vehicles in our range
Theban 448 and long range special operations vehicle on display uh just as a sample of Nimr's capability and products where we look to find
local partners within the Southeast Asian market to expand our market presence
Recently NDA Motive has had its first success outside of the mena region with exports to uh a country in Central Asia uh recently
participating in their Independence Day celebrations. And uh beyond this, uh this is testament to Nimr's capability
in terms of its ruggedness and performance, as well as the combat experience of Nimr products uh that has seen the interest grow
not just within the mena region but abroad. Nimer automotive uh is now ranked as the fifth largest producer of uh wheeled military vehicles
in the world producing between 4 to 8 vehicles per day. Uh These products have all been tested to international certification standards such as NATO
Mill standards de stand, ensuring that these are all verified by independent test bodies
thereby making these vehicles uh internationally accredited as vehicles from our major competitors such as the likes of Oshkosh Veco
Renault, really placing Nimr within the league of these major O EMS and uh where Nimr is now pursuing many of the same programs
that these traditional are pursuing. Nimr has been engaged with the government of Turkmenistan for the supply of a number of
vehicles which some of these vehicles participated in their 26th Independence Day parade held on the 27th of October
Some of these vehicles will go into service after which they will be thoroughly evaluated and tested by the Turkmenistan Armed Forces
which n will hopefully see into 2018 additional sales into the market
Obviously, Nimr has now for some time been engaged with pursuing some R for land rover and
Z replacement programs specifically for the Czech Republic. But additionally, we have seen requirements from markets such as Slovakia has recently announced
an intention to acquire up to 404 armored vehicles which Nimr is certainly going to be participating in together with
And similarly, we see other requirements coming up from markets such as Lithuania
Latvia Hungary, all of which will become an important target for numer And of course
with this volume that we start to see within Eastern Europe numer would look at localizing our manufacturing together with our strategic partner for this
region, with more than 2500 vehicles in service and zero fatalities in these vehicles being actively deployed in combat environments
Nimr saves lives. We have a proven reliability and ruggedness in really diverse terrains and it's a proven platform and proven technologies