LiuGong recently celebrated selling more than 350,000 wheel loaders worldwide. More than 300 people including representatives from the government and industry associates, founding members of LiuGong, customers of LiuGong’s first generation products, dealers, partners, key accounts and media attended the ceremony to witness the historical moment.
LiuGong is the manufacturer of the first modernized wheel loader in China and the first company that produced plateau type wheel loaders in the world as well as the producer of China’s largest wheel loader, the 8128H. Qi Jun, President of China Construction Machinery Industry Association, said LiuGong has been “integral in China’s modernization and infrastructure development.”
LiuGong manufactured its first wheel loader, the Z435, in 1966, which was also the first certified modern wheel loader in China. The ZL50C was LiuGong’s key product for the following 30 years and was the first Chinese made wheel loader that was exported in large volumes to overseas markets. “We have had our oldest wheel loader, a 50C, for more than 30 years and it is still working,” said one customer at the event.
Now the 856, the plateau type wheel loader ZLG50G, 856H and 8128H are the representative products of LiuGong’s third and fourth generation of wheel loaders and at the end of 2016, LiuGong launched the vertical lift wheel loader, the VL70A.The new technology marks an important milestone for LiuGong and for the Chinese construction equipment industry.
“350,000 is only a start for LiuGong” said Wang Ruixiang, President of China Machinery Industry Federation.
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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.