LMD TRADING HOUSE

Building Materials

Lilongwe, Malawi

Lilongwe Mechanical Development Ltd is a private Limited company and was incorporated in 1969. At that time was operating as a Mechanical and machinery shop, specializing in precision, engineering, re-boring blocks, regrinding crankshaft and lathe machines. The company was also running a sales department specialized in engine parts, mechanical tools and other motor vehicle spares.

In 1992 we sold off the engineering division and concentrated on all sort of tools, such as engineering tools, mechanical tools and machinery.

After a few years with our expansion scheme we extended our business to Hardware and Building materials which proved to be promising as the building industry was developing tremendously. We also ventured into motor vehicle tyres, batteries of which we are sole distributors of Ling Long brand tyres and Visca Power batteries. We gradually kept on expanding our business importing various types of goods.

Suppliers of Building Materials in Africa

Lilongwe Mechanical Development Limited started trading as LMD Trading House as we stocked more variety of merchandise rather than of mechanical. We also have a branch in Limbe, Blantyre to facilitate and getting closer to all our customers who are in southern region. We are one of the largest importers of various goods and have been honored by popular franchises of distributorship in Malawi such as Black & Decker, Dewalt power tools, Lasher tools and Gedore Tools from South Africa, Ariston Water Geysers from Italy, sun gold, sanitary ware from India, Ingco tools and Ling Long motor vehicle tyres from China just to mention some.

Besides this we import a lot of goods from China, India, South Africa, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden and Pakistan. We employed qualified personnel to deal with different types of merchandise. We    also do distributing and wholesaling to various clients in Blantyre, Lilongwe, Mzuzu, Zomba and Kasungu.

Our Customers are from all sorts of Trade such as Construction Industry, Civil Engineering, Transporters, Agricultural Industry, Government department, Mechanical workshops, Non- Governmental organizations, Embassies, Technical Colleges and of course the local consumers.

The company’s main office functions are in Lilongwe, the capital city of Malawi with a very big showroom and having two branches, one in Limbe, Blantyre to facilitate and getting closer to all our customers who are in the southern region, the second branch in Mzuzu to facilitate our customers in the northern region. The company has expanded its business activities by using its fleet of trucks; pick ups that can be used for transportation of goods for special delivery arrangements to all parts of Malawi. The property where we operates and conduct all our business from belongs to the company and that we have got seven (7) big Warehouses and a show room, all filled up with various hardware items. Opposite the headquarters is the plumbing and electrical department with a big show room and one big warehouse.