Hitachi Construction Machinery (HCM) is a global Japanese OEM best known for its excavators—from compact ZX-series machines to ultra-class mining shovels like the EX8000—along with factory-modified forestry excavators configured for logging, road-building, and shovel logging.
For more than three decades, Hitachi partnered with John Deere in the Americas through the Deere-Hitachi joint venture. In August 2021 the companies announced the JV’s dissolution, completed February 28, 2022; Deere acquired the JV factories (e.g., Kernersville, NC), while Hitachi established Hitachi Construction Machinery Americas (HCMA) to sell and support Hitachi-branded equipment directly starting March 1, 2022. Hitachi also entered a new OEM supply agreement to provide Deere with excavators, components, and parts.
Bottom line: today Hitachi markets its own excavators and forestry machines across the Americas via HCMA, whereas Deere continues with Deere-branded excavators sourced from its acquired facilities and OEM arrangements.
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