CCA Hosts 3RD Member Networking Party

• 31 December 2015
• Association Focus
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The Cambodia Constructors Association (CCA), a private-run constructors group, hosted its 3rd networking party on 29th September to strengthen the business relationships among its members.

Organised by the CCA and hosted by one of its most active members, SIKA (Cambodia) Ltd, the event was attended by over 250 key Cambodian and international CCA members as well as key customers and partners of Sika. The CCA organises these networking events at least three times per year to boost intra-business networking among its members and to encourage new companies to join the CCA.

“We know that you [CCA members] are very busy with your respective businesses which makes our relationship far apart and that is why the CCA proposed these member reunion events so as to strengthen our relationships,” said H.E. Charles Vann, CCA acting chairman, representing CCA chairman Neak Oknha Pung Kheav Se who was absent due to his urgent schedule.

Sika is a concrete admixtures and additives manufacturer headquartered in Switzerland with over 100 years of experience. SIKA opened its Cambodia subsidiary 14 years ago and joined CCA in 2012. Since then, it has been a very proud and active CCA member by helping expand the association’s membership while also contributing to the nation’s construction industry.

Opening the event, Mr. Antoine Danielli, managing director of SIKA, announced that, “Thanks to the booming construction sector in Cambodia, SIKA is proud to announce that we will set up a factory in Cambodia by end of this year that will primarily produce concrete admixture and additives to lead in the Cambodian market. It is our great pride to have our products having the stamp ‘made in Cambodia.”

The next CCA Member Gathering Party is scheduled for 4 December which is the second day of its flagship 4th Cambodia Constructors Association Summit and Cambodia Construction Industry Expo 2015 at Diamond Island Exhibition and Conventions Center.

The CCA was established on 9 October, 2011 and now has almost 110 member companies from the construction and property industries. While most of the members are locally-based firms, some international firms with headquarters in China, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Malaysia, Germany, France, and Vietnam with divisions in Cambodia are also members of this privately-run association.

Besides becoming a member of the ASEAN Constructors Federation (ACF) shortly after it was established, the association is also now a member of International Federation of Asian and Western Pacific Contractors’ Associations (IFAWPCA). Last year, it also became the member and was elected as the first ASEAN co-chair of the China-ASEAN Building Materials Industry Cooperation Committee (CAFTA) which was launched in June 2014.

In May this year, it enrolled on another China-ASEAN group called the China-ASEAN Construction Industry Cooperation Committee established in China, where Oknha Hann Khieng, CCA vice-chairman was elected as the co-chairman, representing ASEAN.

According to CCA chairman Neak Oknha Pung Kheav Se, the association has the long-term vision to expand its international networks to bring more investment as well as hi-tech products and technologies to the construction and property sectors to Cambodia.