CAT To Expand In Brazil

Caterpillar Inc. announced it’s expanding its manufacturing presence in Brazil with a new facility that will produce backhoe loaders and small wheel loaders, products currently made at Caterpillar’s Piracicaba, Brazil, operations, Diesel Progress reports.

Once the new manufacturing facility begins production, it will allow Caterpillar to increase capacity for the other machines produced in the country. The Piracicaba facility currently produces wheel loaders, motor graders, backhoe loaders, track-type tractors, excavators, compactors, underground mining loaders, generator sets and a variety of components.

The company’s latest facility expansion news in Brazil follows recent announcements of two new excavator plants in China and the search for a large new manufacturing plant in the southern U.S.