In 1995, with the establishment of Caterpillar’s first manufacturing plant in Xuzhou, China, a team of 17 start-ups was formed simultaneously to provide Caterpillar with supporting products. This was the first time Caterpillar supplied its factories in China. A Chinese supplier - Xuzhou BUT Construction Machinery Joint-stock Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “BUT”). After 27 years of development, BUT now has nearly 1,000 employees and three overseas subsidiaries. The supply range ranges from a single bucket to a multi-category product covering tooling and large and medium-sized sheet metal structural parts, which is an important strategy of Caterpillar supplier.
In 2011, Caterpillar built a new bulldozer factory in Thailand, and BUT, who has been supplying the bulldozer factory, also stood at a new intersection of enterprise development. BUT’s management discussed and determined that investing in Thailand is an important opportunity to adapt to the development of globalization, and it is also a move that is consistent with Caterpillar’s investment strategy. In the following year, Chairman Gao Erqing led the project team to visit Thailand many times after the Thailand investment project was officially launched. As the first overseas subsidiary of BUT, Star BUT Thailand Co., Ltd. was established in 2012, which is the first step in the globalization of BUT. Under the coordination of various parties, BUT got the most ideal land just across the road from the two factories of Caterpillar Thailand. Supporting the supply of dozers, push arms, rippers, mining buckets, truck buckets, connectors and other products for Caterpillar CRTT factories and mining machinery factories
In September 2013, Star BUT held a groundbreaking ceremony
Since the establishment of Star BUT Company, Star BUT has been committed to serving two Caterpillar factories. The products have expanded from the main structural parts of the early earth-moving machinery and medium-sized bulldozers D5R-D8R dozers, push arms, etc. to small structural parts and blanking parts. The leaders of both parties, including the parent company of BUT, have conducted many friendly exchanges with customers, deepening their understanding of their respective corporate cultures and product concepts.
In June 2018, the general manager of Thailand Caterpillar visited BUT company
In 2022, with the introduction of the D9R large bulldozer in the CRTT factory, Star BUT is honored to be selected as the supplier of its dozers, push arms and scarifiers. The first samples of the products are expected to be delivered in December 2022. The introduction of D9R structural parts is a major development and breakthrough in the large-scale bulldozer products of BUT and Star BUT after medium-sized bulldozers, marking that the cooperation between Star BUT and Thailand Caterpillar has entered a new level of development.
While in-depth cooperation with the CRTT factory, the cooperation between Star BUT and Caterpillar Mining Machinery is also proceeding in an orderly manner. From simple blanking parts at the beginning, to structural parts with increasing complexity, such as connectors, R1300 buckets, R1600 buckets, R2900 buckets… With the continuous improvement of Star BUT’s processing capacity and production capacity, Star BUT produced the difficulty of the product has also achieved a qualitative leap.
So far, Star BUT, an overseas subsidiary of BUT, has been established for more than 14 years, and has now become one of the largest local suppliers of Caterpillar in Thailand and an important strategic partner of Caterpillar in Thailand.
Post time: Jun-16-2022