Multinationals and their venture partners dominate the market for crawler excavators in China.

Other attachments adapt the crawler excavator for boring, ripping, crushing, cutting and lifting.

A crawler excavator (crawling digger) is a vehicle designed to dig or move large objects, and is classified by its mode of locomotion.

Crawler excavators are widely used in construction work, such as digging trenches, holes and foundations, as well as for handling materials, moving earth, demolition, dredging, etc.

The products built at the Asheville Plant, including wheel loaders and crawler excavators, were transferred to Volvo manufacturing facilities in South Korea and Sweden.

In construction equipment, CNH manufactures backhoe loaders and skid-steer loaders in North America, and crawler excavators in Western Europe.

On January 13, 2010, Volvo announced that it would invest 65 million SEK to begin producing crawler excavators in Brazil, taking advantage of government run, low financing options for products built in country.

New Holland produces thirteen product families, five in the heavy range and eight in the light range; products include dozers, miniexcavators, graders, wheel loaders, crawler excavators, backhoe loaders, skid steer loaders.

In 1986 the production partnership between Fiat and Hitachi began, with the original plan to build a limited range of Hitachi crawler excavators in Fiat's factory in San Mauro, Turin, Italy.

Scrapmetal, Transforms into a yellow Volvo EC700C crawler excavator with a Stanley UP 45SV universal processor attachment, is seen on the freighter along with Long Haul, Mixmaster and Skipjack.

The company produced the first shovel bucket excavator in the world in 1901 and, starting in 1923, produced the series of M II, M III and M IV machines: the first crawler excavators in Europe.

According to Off-Highway Research, a consulting firm in London, China has just become the world's largest market for the workhorses of big projects: crawler excavators, which look like long-armed shovels, and wheeled loaders, which look like bulldozers but with scoops in front instead of earth-scraping blades.