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China has a new container manufacturer, Gemac Engineering Machinery Co, Ltd. Located in Xiangyang city, Hubei province, Gemac is one of the leading manufacturers in China of railway vehicles, including locomotives, construction, maintenance and track inspection vehicles, and wagons.
As China develops its rail infrastructure under the ‘One Belt, One Road’ initiative (and others), Gemac is diversifying into containers and container handling equipment. It has opened a container line in Xiangyang, and is producing dry boxes and a range of special containers, including open tops and half height bulk commodity containers. It has also produced a reach stacker and an RMG to handle containers at its own facilities.
The first 2,000 containers were produced in January, and the factory is expected to produce 20,000 containers this year.
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