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Caterpillar excavator coming home from China

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Cas

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Caterpillar announced that it is going to build
a plant and build all excavators for USA use
in a new plant somewhere to be announced. Drop
in dollar and technical problems in China are
making the move a done deal. It will not solve
our problems. But it is a start.
To get unemployment down we would have to create
125,000 jobs a month for 6 years.
 
It won't be Michigan.

Michigan and organized labor is much too hostile to business.

Expect it to go south.

Dean
 
Cat bought some ground near dayton ohio a couple months ago,think it was for a distribution center or something of the like.
 
they were talking about that on the radio today. we are near the caterpillar plant in montgomery il (aurora) from what they said they are closing a plant in either china or japan and shifting excavator operations to a new plant in the U.S.
the aurora plant produces about 40% excavators, along with wheel loaders , dozers, packers ect. they are taking the excavator production from the aurora plant and shifting it also to the new plant. they were concerned about layoffs then at the aurora plant. who knows???
 
I don't think Michigan is any more union than most other states these days. The UAW's biggest local is state workers.
 
Beleive me they come in handy most every day! Need a fence line cleaned out, easy and fast. Need to dig a big hole to burn brush or concrete, easy and fast. Need to lift the cab off a tractor, easy and well not so fast but really easy! Got a neighbor you dont like and need to smash his car, easy and fast and probably real fun!
 
glennster:
Hate to say it but my "guess" is if/when they build the new plant, it won't be in the Midwest.
Already building a new plant in Texas and southeast. UAW labor has forced this.
 
Things come full circle, people get rich, fat, lazy and demand more than their worth and business moves where folks work harder for less.
It happened in England, the US, Mexico, Japan, Korea, India and now China.
If we don't poke a sharp stick in their eye, many jobs will come back home.
 
yup, if cat wants the plant to survive, they will need to pick a state that actually apprecates a businees there with a large workforce. unfortunately for illinois, they tax the living snot out a business, at the end of the day, it makes you wonder if its even worth it.
 
There are plenty of empty plants that could be filled back up I'd think ? But everyone builds another new one. At least tear the old ones down and build on the same site as to not ruin anymore good land.
 
Gotta be a mistake. With all the high-priced labor and oppressive taxation in the US, no company with a board of directors in their right minds would build anything here--or at least that's what I was told earlier in the week on these forum pages.
 
Don't forget it's phenomenally expensive to ship heavy equipment overseas. My guess is they will rely heavily on components (such as cylinders, pumps, electrical components) manufactured offshore, with final assembly in the US.

It's well known that China holds the exchange rate of the Yuan artificially low. In fact, the value of the Yuan is tied to the dollar. With the huge trade deficit, it's just a matter of time before they have to let it rise; when it does, it's going to make Chinese products much more expensive.
 
Over the years saw many Cat power units at ORD ready to be cargo in 747's going foreign.
 
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