Cummins C&G Limited organized a training dubbed ‘Cummins Power Train Kenya Symposium’ on Friday, June 20, 2025.

The training, conducted by a team from Cummins Africa and Middle East PowerGen specialised technical leaders, was meant for engineers and consultants from the entire East African region.

The attendees included the Cummins C&G appropriate staff and key clients, including banks, data centres and oil companies, consulting engineers and service teams. 

The training offered valuable knowledge on how to handle the Cummins equipment from generator set settings and transient performance, genset paralleling, installation layout and design, data center power systems design considerations, alternator and generator acoustic closures.

The Power Train Kenya Symposium was also used to introduce BESS, Battery Energy Storage System that stores excess energy generated during periods of low demand and released during demand periods.

Speaking after the symposium, Erick Sangoro, the Cummins C&G Managing Director said, “This is very important to us. BESS, apart from enhancing energy efficiency, it also improves the stability and reliability of the grid.”

Car & General became a distributor of Cummins products in 2007. In 2017, Cummins C&G was formed as a 50:50 joint venture between C&G and Cummins Inc.

In 2023, Car & General bought back the Cummins Inc shares and fully acquired Cummins CG from the joint venture.

It is now owned 100% by C&G and is the Cummins distributor for generators, engines and power solutions in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and Somalia.

Car & General is a diversified distributor of Cummins generators, TVS motorcycles, Piaggio three wheelers, Kubota tractors, Toyota forklifts, Develon earthmovers among other equipment in East Africa.