| abstract | - In 1972 Hovers Constructie NV went out of business. To continue support of existing customer, Hitachi Construction Machinery Europe (HCME) was incorporated on April 1, 1972, as the first foreign branch of Hitachi Construction Machinery. With its brief opened to cover Africa and the Middle East, in 1981 the company opened a parts Distribution Center. In the 1990s, HCME increased production at Oosterhout, starting to produce mini excavators, which with an extension of coverage into Russia lead to a trebling of production volumes. In October 1998, Euclid and Hitachi agreed a distribution partnership. This resulted in a new part distribution centre being opened at Oosterhout in April 2000, so that HCME could take over the exclusive distribution for Euclid dump trucks parts. In April 2007 they took over the UK distributor HM Plant, who are based in a purpose built distribution facility at Hebburn on Tyneside.
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