Cat plans new manufacturing facility in China.
Caterpillar caterpillar (kăt`əpĭl'ər, kăt`ər–), common name for the larva of a moth or butterfly. Caterpillars have distinct heads and are segmented and wormlike. Inc., Peoria, Ill., has announced plans to build a new wheel loader A program routine that copies a program into memory for execution. manufacturing facility in the Suzhou Industrial Park The China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park (中国——新加坡苏州工业园区, SIP) is an industrial park built in Suzhou, China with significant Singaporean input. in Chinas Jiangsu province.
The proposed facility will be located on 57 acres of land in the Suzhou Industrial Park. Caterpillar intends to begin construction of the 350,000-square-foot building in early 2007 pending appropriate government approvals, according to according to
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In total, Caterpillar operates 13 China-based facilities--both joint venture and wholly owned businesses. The company sold its first products in China in 1975 and opened an office in Beijing in 1978.
More information is available at www.cat.com.
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