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Multiple contemporaneous trade-press reports (Equipment World, Construction Equipment Guide[3], OEM Off-Highway) independently give 24 August 2012 as the opening date of the Lingang factory.
Reports Sany opened what it calls the world's largest excavator factory near Shanghai.[1]
Construction Equipment Guide and sibling trade publications report SANY opened its Lingang, Shanghai excavator plant - built for about $818.5 million - on 24 August 2012, calling it the world's largest.
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