If Chen is right, excavators may soon go the way of wheel loaders in China.
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During this same period, sales of 105, 918 excavators represented an 84% increase over the year before.
FORBES: The Battle For China's Construction-Machinery Market
Chinese manufacturers of excavators have a 40% market share today, versus 9% in 2004.
We reached a plateau, with excavators and bulldozers, and parked outside a tunnel into the hillside.
In August, it said would open to plant in Jiangsu Province to produce components for excavators.
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"There is no product overlap today, they make large hydraulic shovels, we make hydraulic excavators, " said Oberhelman.
Even at China prices, the China market for wheel loaders and excavators is definitely worth the fight.
FORBES: The Battle For China's Construction-Machinery Market
Caterpillar is opening a new plant to build excavators in Texas that used to be shipped from Japan.
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Since China is a newcomer to this field, foreign companies have historically dominated the China market for excavators.
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Only a few hundred Sany excavators have been sold in the American market so far, company officials say.
China buys a fifth of its excavators from Komatsu, only 15% from Caterpillar.
Sany officials said the plant can build 20, 000 excavators annually but recently has been working at half that rate.
In 1995 he did a two-year stint managing Komatsu America's Chattanooga, Tennessee plant, building excavators designed to steal business away.
These companies would probably be expanding and building new plants as fast as they could gather up land and excavators.
To put these numbers into perspective, only 2, 349 excavators were sold in 1993, the year I began traveling around the country.
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More starkly, there were sharp declines in the production of steel pipes (15.5%), gas turbines (36.8%), excavators (13.7%), and electric motors.
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Its construction equipment business manufactures excavators, wheel loaders, forklifts and skid loaders.
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.
Two staples for any construction project are wheel loaders and excavators.
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Introduced to tackle machine theft, it has helped turn Komatsu into the biggest foreign supplier of excavators and dump trucks to China's booming construction and mining companies.
As in most natural disasters, the government mobilized thousands of soldiers and others, sending excavators and other heavy machinery as well as tents, blankets and other emergency supplies.
The project involved removing the silt and sand with excavators then dumping it out to sea as well as replacing all the chains that were holding buoys in place.
Brad Hutchinson, owner of Company Wrench, a Carroll, Ohio-based dealer for demolition equipment, has bought about a dozen Sany excavators for his rental fleet and also offers excavators for sale.
But head inland into Queensland and into the outback and the contrast cannot get sharper: Giant excavators, three stories high and weighing hundreds of tonnes, work at mines of Brobdingnagian proportions.
The story in excavators is a bit more complicated.
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The excavators also discovered wooden fragments bearing Latin handwriting.
In the town of Lushan, seat of the county government, the damage was less widespread, and streets were filled with excavators and vehicles carrying paramilitary police to help with the rescue efforts.
These forces are undercutting the coal industry argument that mountaintop mining is an unalloyed good because of the jobs it creates, and bring more companies to the table to talk about reining in their excavators.
Here, a squat New Zealander named Ed Mumm keeps a fleet of construction-grade excavators and bulldozers and, in defiance of all common sense, allows pretty much anyone (for a fee, naturally) to play with them after only a few minutes of training.
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