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TOKYO — Hitachi Construction Machinery<\/a> will downsize its plant in China that manufactures midsize\u00a0and large hydraulic shovels in order to improve the profitability of the operation.<\/p>\n

The Hitachi<\/a> group company Thursday announced plans to close the No. 2 factory at its Hefei plant in Anhui Province by March of 2017, reducing the plant’s annual capacity to 35,000 excavators from the current 50,000.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The second factory and the associated company dormitory sit on a 418,000-sq.-meter site that will be sold off. The equipment in this facility will be transferred to the remaining factory, with the workers reassigned. The company believes it can accommodate an increase in demand using just the one facility.<\/div>\n

Hitachi Construction built the second factory in 2011 in anticipation of a further expansion in China’s market for excavators. But the market soured instead and the factory was mothballed without ever being fired up.<\/p>\n

The Japanese\u00a0company revealed Thursday that its overall sales in China declined 6% in the April-September half compared with the same period last year, hurt by the currency-exchange rate. Nevertheless, it believes\u00a0demand has bottomed out and now projects sales to grow 15% for the full year, rather than fall 6% as previously forecast.<\/p>\n

(Nikkei)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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