Caterpillar is planning to build a new mining truck facility in Indonesia and invest $640m in the expansion of its facilities in the US.

The new mining truck facility will be located in Batam, Indonesia, and will produce mining truck chassis and bodies.

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The firm will invest $150m in the Batam facility, with operations to commence in 2012 and the first trucks to be produced in the third quarter of 2013.

Caterpillar will invest about $300m to increase the capacity of large mining trucks produced in Decatur, Illinois, by 2016.

The facility in East Peoria, Illinois, will also receive $340m for expanding the production of large track-type tractors used in mining applications, which is expected to be completed by 2015.

 

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