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10,000th CAT Large Mining Truck by Caterpillar.
In 2011, Caterpillar celebrated another milestone, a big one:
the 10,000th large mining truck.
CAT plant, Decatur, rolls out 10,000th mining truck
January 7, 2001. Caterpillar
Inc.'s Decatur plant has reached a major
milestone with the production of its
10,000th mining truck. Ed McCord,
Caterpillar’s worldwide product manager
for mining trucks and shovels, spoke to
more than 100 Caterpillar employees
Thursday in central Illinois as they
marked the production of the 10,000th
250-ton capacity 793F truck model made
in Decatur since large mining truck
production began in 1984.
The 10,000th 793F has been bought by Australian mining customer, BHP Billiton.
Caterpillar Inc.
Caterpillar Inc. is a United
States-based corporation headquartered
in Peoria, Illinois. Caterpillar is,
according to their corporate website,
"the world's largest manufacturer of
construction and mining equipment,
diesel and natural gas engines, and
industrial gas turbines." Caterpillar
produces a wide range of heavy
equipment, including the range of
Caterpillar bulldozers. Caterpillar's
line of vehicles range from tracked
tractors to hydraulic excavators,
backhoe loaders, motor graders,
off-highway trucks, wheel loaders, and
agricultural tractors. They are used in
construction, road-building, mining,
forestry, energy, transportation and
material-handling industries.
Caterpillar is one of the thirty
companies whose stock is tracked in the
Dow Jones Industrial Average. It is a
Fortune 500 company, ranked number 50 in
2008, and first in its industry, with
more than $30 billion in assets. Source:
Wikipedia, Caterpillar.
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