CAT To Open New Hydraulic Excavator Facility In TX

Caterpillar Inc. announced it has selected Victoria, TX, as the location for the company’s new hydraulic excavator manufacturing facility. Ground breaking for the 600,000-square-foot manufacturing operation is scheduled to take place in September 2010.

The facility is expected to begin production in mid-2012. Once fully operational, it will triple the current capacity of hydraulic excavators produced by the company in the U.S. and would double the number of Caterpillar employees in the U.S. making excavators.

The company said the decision to increase manufacturing capacity and employment in the U.S. is part of their long-term strategic initiative to develop the appropriate global footprint to competitively produce hydraulic excavators.