That is why the battle for the construction equipment market in China is so critically important.
Beyond trucks and construction equipment, there is a keen interest in importing Chinese cars.
Well-known businesses there include construction equipment makers Sany Heavy Industry and Zoomlion, local rivals of Caterpillar.
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Wang, 43, co-founded Yantai Jinri OMY Construction Equipment Co. with Sun Weijie and Liu Zhenfeng in 1997.
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Peoria-based construction equipment giant that has been nibbling into Deere's 44% share of the high-horsepower farm tractor market.
Komatsu (TSE: 6301) (ADR: KMTUY) is the second largest global construction equipment company, after Caterpillar.
The company is on a hiring spree, due mostly to run- away demand for construction equipment in emerging markets.
We can create new jobs by replacing heavy construction equipment with shovels and then replacing the shovels with spoons.
Team (TISI), a specialty construction equipment maker, reportedd second-quarter results that beat expectations and raised its full year outlook.
Heavy-construction equipment was on the way from nearby Nassau County and upstate counties to clear the most troublesome roads.
Both Caterpillar and Deere are investing in manufacturing operations in the country to better target its fast-growing construction equipment market.
There are exceptions, but I am willing to bet that the average construction equipment customer is thinking rather less long term.
Anguilla also required that construction equipment be leased from local companies, which Mr. Kanavos says added millions of dollars to costs.
David Wolf hits the proverbial nail on the head in his latest retort to my articles on the construction equipment industry.
Wheel loaders outsell all other construction equipment in China by far--130, 000 last year, or 60% of all construction machines sold in 2007.
This was partly offset by slowdown in construction equipment sales in China.
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Agriculture and construction equipment maker Deere reported its fiscal third-quarter earnings spiked 47% thanks to resurgent demand from American and Canadian farmers.
"Different" in that 30%of Deere's operating profits today come from construction equipment and consumer goods like riding lawn mowers and leaf blowers.
Its construction equipment business manufactures excavators, wheel loaders, forklifts and skid loaders.
The negative data hurt shares in Japan's construction equipment makers and sent the benchmark Nikkei 225 index down 1.44%, to close at 13, 017.24.
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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The company, which hauls agricultural and construction equipment as well as construction materials, still is hiring, Mr. Tennant said, despite the pause in business.
But it's the big reason why the Forest Service wouldn't simply hand Tombstone a permit to use heavy construction equipment to fix the pipeline.
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Any new electronic gadget had to be the best and newest, and he collected objects in multiples, regardless of price, from radios to construction equipment.
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Veteran industrial analyst David Bleustein of UBS notes that prices for buying new construction equipment, up 10% to 12% last year, should continue to rise.
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.
The company, which deals in agricultural and construction equipment, said late Thursday that weaker revenue will lead it to a wider quarterly loss than it had expected.
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.
As much as Pfizer helped lift stocks, fellow Dow component Caterpillar was weighing on the market, after the construction equipment maker's fourth-quarter results came up short of estimates.
Aircraft, construction equipment and even cellular networks are suspect, too.
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