Shantui Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. is a Chinese construction equipment manufacturer, and a subsidiary of Shandong Heavy Industry. The core product line is bulldozers but in past years the company has expanded beyond reliance on a single product through an acquisition strategy.[1]
Bulldozers
The company is known as the largest producer of bulldozers in China, holding 40% of the domestic market in 2006.[2] The company went on in 2010 to become the largest producer of bulldozers, making over 10,000 units that year or 2 in 5 crawler-type dozers made in the world.[3] The next largest producer by number of units is Caterpillar Inc.[3]
Shantui has increasingly developed bigger dozers, capable of competing against the large products made by