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Sany excavators to be made in US by June

Sany America, the US subsidiary of China's heavy construction equipment manufacturer, is to start building its brand excavators "completely from scratch" in June in the United States. "Now, we've hit that kind of critical mass point, we are now in a position that we can actually start to build products here," Doug Friesen, chief executive officer of Sany America, said at his office in Peachtree City, in the southern US state of Georgia. The company, which started as a sales and service organization in 2006 in the United States, actually started "semi knocked-down" - assembling partially prefabricated vehicles - in October last year, said Friesen.