In a serious growth for Hitachi Development Equipment (HCM) in Brazil; the worldwide OEM has deployed the 221 t payload EH4000AC-3 diesel-electric mining truck and 260 t (19.5 m3 bucket) EX2600-7 mining excavator at Anglo American’s Minas Rio iron ore mining operation within the state of Minas Gerais.
That is important as that is the primary Hitachi mining dump truck to function in Brazil. Marubeni Brazil, the HCM vendor, bought the machines to R&D Mineração & Construção Ltda, a contractor, and R&D has operated them since 2024, based mostly on the contract they signed with Anglo American.
HCM estimates that Latin America accounts for 23% of the world’s demand for inflexible dump vehicles and 9% of the demand for super-large hydraulic excavators. as a result of abundance of mineral useful resource mining in that market, together with copper, iron ore, and gold. Lots of Hitachi Development Equipment’s super-large hydraulic excavators are in operation in Brazil.
Along with the rise in new equipment gross sales, the elements and repair enterprise is predicted to broaden based mostly on the quantity of recent equipment delivered up to now.
HCM is taking main steps to strengthen its enterprise construction in Latin America. ZAMine Brasil, a gross sales and repair firm of mining gear for Hitachi Development Equipment, held a gap ceremony on March 12 to have fun beginning its operations. The corporate was collectively established in Brazil by Hitachi Development Equipment and Marubeni. Belongings (service elements and instruments, shifting automobiles, and so on) and workers of the mining equipment division of Marubeni Brasil talked about aboves are scheduled to be transferred to the brand new firm, which is being led by Kentaro Goto, President and Govt Officer.
ZAMine Brasil opening ceremony held March 12, 2025
ZAMine Brasil will start full-scale operations in March 2025 to broaden the mining enterprise within the Brazilian market by combining the Marubeni’s enterprise administration know-how and in depth buyer community in Brazil, developed over a few years, with Hitachi Development Equipment’s high-quality upkeep and companies applications offered.
Kotaro Hirano, HCM Consultant Govt Officer, Chairman and Govt Officer, and CEO commented: “Brazil is one in every of world’s largest producer of iron ore, and a market with nice potential to broaden our mining enterprise.. The market demand today is to scale back emissions, and I’m assured that our fuel-efficient excavators, dump vehicles with trolley system and others we provide worldwide will probably be nicely acquired by Brazilian mining clients. We’d like the cooperation of each workforce member in order that we will decide to establishing a powerful place within the Brazilian mining market.”
As well as, Hitachi Development Equipment plans to ascertain Hitachi Development Equipment Latin America on April 1, 2025, positioned in Chile as a brand new regional headquarters in Latin America. General, HCM goals to attain gross sales income of JPY100 billion in Latin America by FY2030 via the restructuring of its enterprise within the area – this equates to over US$670 million.
