Dump truck production is making a return to a Guelph manufacturing company.
Hitachi Construction Truck Manufacturing has announced it will once again produce dump trucks at its Guelph facility on Woodlawn Road – beginning in the fiscal year of 2026 – a move that will add around 100 jobs to the local workforce.
In a news release, Hitachi said the decision comes in response to strong demand in the Americas market, which includes North, Central and South America.
“By developing a local production and service framework for dump trucks, we can quickly accommodate local market needs,” the company said. “Hitachi Construction Machinery hopes to accelerate independent business expansion while increasing the local procurement rate.”
Local production of dump trucks stopped in 2018 "to focus on producing service parts for delivered dump trucks and re-manufacturing parts for ultra-large hydraulic excavators and dump trucks."
In recent years, the company has been manufacturing mining trucks in Japan.
Ahead of the full-scale production, the company says the staffing complement at the Guelph plant “is expected to double in size.”
Approximately 100 people work at the plant, as of February.
The plan is to get to around 200 employees by 2026.
