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LiuGong celebrates 60th anniversary

Chinese construction, quarrying and roadbuilding equipment giant LiuGong was today celebrating its 60th anniversary year on the first day of a special two-day event attended by customers, dealers and the world’s trade media at the company’s global HQ in Liuzhou, southern China. The event’s first day was due to include the unveiling of a new machine model, a press conference involving LiuGong chairman Zeng Guang'an and other key senior company executives, a product history and achievement exhibition, and
November 22, 2018 Read time: 2 mins
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A LiuGong 936E crawler excavator and a TD-15R crawler dozer manufactured by Dressta, LiuGong’s Polish subsidiary

Chinese construction, quarrying and roadbuilding equipment giant 441 LiuGong was today celebrating its 60th anniversary year on the first day of a special two-day event attended by 5,000 customers, dealers, employees and the world’s trade media at the company’s global HQ in Liuzhou, southern China.
 
The event’s first day was due to include the unveiling of a new machine model, a ceremony to mark the production of LiuGong’s 400,000 wheeled loader, a press conference involving LiuGong chairman Zeng Guang'an and other key senior company executives, a product history and achievement exhibition, and a 60th anniversary gala dinner. The second day of the event is being dedicated to a global dealer conference.
 
LiuGong manufactured China’s first modernised wheeled loader in 1966 and in 1976 produced its first articulated and oversized wheeled loaders. In 1993, it became China’s first publicly traded construction equipment company.

Employing around 11,000 staff globally, LiuGong has 24 manufacturing facilities and around 2,650 sales outlets and 380 dealers. Supporting its comprehensive dealer network are 10 regional offices with engineering, marketing, and service support, coupled with 10 parts depots located worldwide.
 
LiuGong has subsidiary companies based in Johannesburg, South Africa; Sydney, Australia; Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Dubai; Europe; New Delhi, India; Poland; Singapore; Moscow, Russia; and Houston, United States.
 
LiuGong also has a highly successful joint venture with Cummins, Guangxi Cummins Industrial Power, which includes a mid-range engine manufacturing facility in Liuzhou. Liuzhou ZF Machinery is a long-established joint venture between LiuGong and ZF Friedrichshafen of Germany which manufactures driveline and parts of driveline for construction machinery.

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