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  Starts 05/21/1959CONFIRMED78% CONFIDENCE67.3 years agoWikipedia's^[3] H. J. Heinz, Wigan article dates the Kitt Green factory's opening to 21 May 1959.

  H.J. Heinz opens its Kitt Green factory near Wigan, which grows into the company's largest food processing plant in the world and Europe's biggest.

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• Infrastructure09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Sany Opens Its Lingang Excavator Factory Near Shanghai

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  Starts 08/24/2012CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCE14.1 years agoMultiple 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.

  Sany opened its $818 million Lingang facility near Shanghai, calling it the world's largest excavator factory. Automated underground tunnels move structures and components through 5.9 million square feet of production space.

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• Mining09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  TAKRAF Commissions the First F60 Overburden Conveyor Bridge at Welzow

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  Starts 01/01/1972ESTIMATED65% CONFIDENCE54.7 years agoWikipedia's^[2] Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60 article dates the first unit's construction to 1969-1972 and entry into service at the Welzow open-pit mine to 1972, without a specific day.

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  Starts 01/14/2014ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCE12.7 years agoKHL^[3] Group and Vertikal.net^[2] both reported the new Liebherr LTM 1750-9.1 joining the Knaack-Krane fleet in mid-January 2014, without giving the exact delivery day.

  Hamburg crane operator Knaack-Krane added a Liebherr LTM 1750-9.1, a 750-tonne all-terrain mobile crane, to its fleet and put it straight to work assembling wind turbines at the Stößen-Teuchern wind farm near Leipzig, its heaviest job yet.

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• Food09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Manor Bakeries Opens Its Carlton Plant as Europe's Largest Bakery

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  Starts 01/01/1975ESTIMATED53% CONFIDENCE51.7 years agoThe Barnsley Chronicle^[3] and Yorkshire Post^[2] date the start of cake manufacturing at the Lyons Bakery (later Manor Bakeries/Mr Kipling) Carlton plant to 1975, without a more precise day recorded.

  Lyons Bakery's purpose-built plant in Carlton, South Yorkshire opens as the largest bakery in Europe, and starts baking what becomes the Mr Kipling cake range under later owner Manor Bakeries.

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  Starts 03/15/2019CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE7.5 years agoWikipedia^[4] and Norway Today state Mjøstårnet was completed in March 2019, with its official opening on March 15, 2019.

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  Starts 02/11/2014CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE12.6 years agoAutomotive trade press dates the formal opening of the expanded Leipzig plant for Macan production to 11 February 2014.^[1]

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  Starts 01/01/1967ESTIMATED68% CONFIDENCE59.7 years agoWikipedia^[2] and multiple aviation histories date the Everett Factory's completion to 1967, but do not give an exact completion day.

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