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Excavator sales climb 27.7% in Sept

Sales by China's major excavator producers continued to grow in September but at a milder pace, according to the China Construction Machinery Association. The country's 25 leading excavator makers sold 13,408 units last month, up 27.7 percent year-on-year, compared with a 33-percent increase in August. Total sales of excavators in the domestic market reached 11,702 units, up 22.9 percent year-on-year. Exports of equipment rose 74.8 percent to 1,689 units. A total of 156,242 excavators were sold in the Jan-Sept period, up 53.3 percent on the same period last year. More than 140,000 of those were sold domestically.

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