Exports are crucial to XCMG’s growth and its aim to becoming a dominant player in the worldwide construction machinery market – Mike Woof writes
One of China’s biggest construction equipment manufacturers, XCMG has a high profile, and particularly in the country’s home market. XCMG is a leader in key equipment categories such as concrete pumping and lifting technologies.
The firm’s 4,000tonne crawler crane introduced two years ago has already proven its worth in a massive industrial construction appl
The acquisition of the HSW firm making the Dressta bulldozers has been strategically important for LiuGong. This facility is its first factory in Europe and has brought with it a very well-proven product line. The factory has benefited from a number of changes and David Beatenbough, vice president of LiuGong research and development said, “What we’ve found is that every machine tool is old but the maintenance has been tremendous. We’ve only had to replace one or two machine tools. So for this year we’ve bee
The acquisition of the HSW firm making the Dressta bulldozers has been strategically important for LiuGong. This facility is its first factory in Europe and has brought with it a very well-proven product line. The factory has benefited from a number of changes and David Beatenbough, vice president of LiuGong research and development said, “What we’ve found is that every machine tool is old but the maintenance has been tremendous. We’ve only had to replace one or two machine tools. So for this year we’ve bee
The Wirtgen Group is developing its manufacturing facilities outside of Germany. The company has extensive operations in Brazil and China and has now opened a new plant in India, which has started production already.
Joint president Stefan Wirtgen said, “The first machine we made was a Hamm compactor. It is specially developed for the Indian market.”
