Due to the amount of infrastructure rebuilding still taking place in Japan after the March 2011 earthquake, Caterpillar Japan says it will produce a record number of excavators in 2012.
Production is speculated to increase by 20% at the Akashi plant, and 15% at the company's Sagamihara facility. Reconfiguration of production lines will enable the Akashi plant to increase capacity from 1,500 units to 2,000.
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