You look at Sany at the moment: it's a very promising long-term competitor to Caterpillar.
Liang said Sany plans to increase its total sales to 300 billion yuan within a decade.
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The chances that Sany will win any court cases in this dispute are slim.
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Sany, Yuchai, Liugong and Lonking, the major local players, accounted for most of the balance.
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Sany machines cost about 10% to 20% less than the top U.S. brands, Mr. Hutchinson said.
Sany's Mr. Frank said it would be expensive to acquire a large, well-run rental operation.
Sany also has established sales and marketing operations in Europe, Latin America, India and other places.
Well-known businesses there include construction equipment makers Sany Heavy Industry and Zoomlion, local rivals of Caterpillar.
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Ralls Corp, which had been installing wind turbine generators made in China by Sany Heavy Industry Co.
Sany said it would challenge the ruling in court, effectively accusing President Obama of acting unlawfully.
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Sany in December moved its headquarters from Changsha to Beijing in a step to facilitate its international growth.
Xiang Wenbo is frequently the public voice among the quartet of billionaires who run equipment manufacturer Sany Group.
Only a few hundred Sany excavators have been sold in the American market so far, company officials say.
The order also targeted Sany Group, the company that makes the turbine generators.
When it comes to wind farms, Sany two year old subsidiary Ralls Corp.
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Sany officials said the plant can build 20, 000 excavators annually but recently has been working at half that rate.
In addition, seven of the 11 members of the Sany board of directors are party members, the company says.
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The feeling of surplus space is similar at a new Sany plant, in Lingang, about 40 miles southeast of Shanghai.
This impacted Caterpillar and other companies such as Komatsu and Sany Heavy that operate in the Chinese construction industry.
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After Ralls completed the purchase, it prepared to install wind turbine generators made in China by a company called Sany Electric.
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Sany executives say they are scouting for acquisitions and joint ventures to gain a broader product line, more sales and rental outlets.
Equipment buyers often are wary of little-known brands like Sany because they lack an established secondhand market, which makes resale value unpredictable.
In the U.S., Sany has signed up 12 dealers for excavators, mostly in the Northeast, and sold a negligible number of earth-moving machines.
Sany and Zoomlion, both heavy industry equipment makers, have become the sixth and seventh largest in their field in a short period of time.
"A lot of our customers come from North Africa, " Sany Naufal, founder of bookstore Antoine Online, told the recent ArabNet conference here in Beirut.
This is an embarrassing setback for Caterpillar, which has expanded aggressively in China and competes with domestic heavy-machinery manufacturers like Zoomlion and Sany.
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One way for Sany to gain more exposure in the U.S. would be to buy all or part of an equipment-rental company, industry executives say.
Sany is No. 6 on the latest ranking of the world's biggest makers of construction equipment compiled by KHL Group, a publisher of construction magazines.
In a dusty bit of Maharashtra state sits one of the first Chinese factories in India, run by Sany, which makes diggers and other construction machines.
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