There are few chances for normal folk to get behind the controls of heavy construction machinery.
The storm probably means an uptick in demand for construction machinery and power-generation equipment for such companies as Caterpillar Inc.
During the commodities boom, exports of farm equipment and construction machinery from companies such as Caterpillar and John Deere helped boost the state's economy.
The engineering and leasing of construction machinery is involved in provision of construction related services, such as scaffolding, electrical installations and leasing of metal formworks.
Hitachi Construction Machinery jumped 4.1% after the Nikkei business daily reported the company's consolidated operating profit for the fiscal year is expected to be up 40%.
The company initially sold imported construction machinery spare parts.
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In construction machinery, for example, sales of wheel loaders in April were down 28 percent, and excavator sales were down 40 percent, from the sales levels achieved in March, reflecting a slowdown in fixed asset investment.
In fact, Chen Zhengli, Secretary General of the Mining Machinery Branch of the Construction Machinery Industry Association, predicts that the local companies will account for 50% of the excavator market in China within five years.
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" Caterpillar, the giant Peoria-based maker of heavy construction machinery, made the same point more vividly when it declined in February to locate a new factory in Illinois, specifically citing concern about the state's "business climate and overall fiscal health.
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Key industries in the region that are expected to benefit the most include: construction, machinery manufacturing, fabricated metal manufacturing, water transportation, professional and technical services, electrical equipment manufacturing, plastics products manufacturing and primary metals manufacturing.
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Construction and farm machinery sales are closely correlated to the health of economy.
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These infrastructure projects augur well for Caterpillar as they will increase the demand for construction equipment and machinery manufactured by the company.
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More recently, measures from the Chinese government to control rising real estate prices will further suppress sales of construction equipment and machinery in the country, and thereby impact Caterpillar.
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Therefore, in Q2 2011, while construction and other machinery sales will continue growing along with the global GDP, its rate of growth will likely moderate due to the many global economic challenges.
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There is clearly a demonstrated global market for Boeing airplanes and Caterpillar construction and agricultural machinery, as well as a host of high-tech and fashion-related products now being churned out in factories scattered across the country.
Thursday's report showed weakening demand across a broad range of categories in June, including machinery, construction materials and computers.
Its products are used in the automotive, construction, commercial, transportation and industrial-machinery markets.
It is pushing for greater imports of high-tech machinery to improve manufacturing and more construction in the interior for urbanization.
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The company manufacturers the production of highway construction materials, synthetic fuels, and environmental control machinery.
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After establishing its expertise as a global provider of logistics services involving vehicle shipments, the company has reached into other industries: steel, machinery, heavy chemicals, energy, construction and consumer goods.
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It also does big business there in machinery, cars, steel, railways, mining, construction and banking.
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It sells hot- and cold-rolled carbon steel to construction companies, steel distributors and service centers and automotive and industrial machinery producers.
Londoner Slater said she had been lucky enough to see the park during its construction phase: "The transformation from all the mud and machinery back then is amazing, " she told CNN.
The professions where people drink the most include construction, agriculture and manufacturing--all fields that involve a lot of dangerous, heavy machinery.
He points to evidence that construction is picking up again after a long slump, and to a surge in imports of machinery.
But even with blasting and machinery grinding through the rock day and night, most New Yorkers are blithely unaware of the construction or the eerie underworld that includes a massive, eight-story cavern, miles of tunnels and watery, gravel-filled pits.
And execs see opportunity in making machinery that's fuel efficient or helps increase fuel efficiency: turbo chargers for cars, engines for construction equipment and liquid chilling equipment.
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