We The People: This Day in History, December 9
Caterpillar Brings Major Manufacturing Plant to Waco
Updated: Dec. 9, 2025 at 7:40 AM CST
WACO, Texas (KWTX) - On December 9, 1997, Caterpillar Inc. revealed plans to open a facility in Waco.
The project had a price tag of $15 million and called for a 128,000-square-foot plant.
The company wanted a strategic location where it could produce articulated trucks for customers across North, Central, and South America.
The plant became fully operational in 2002.
Since then, the company has invested $52 million in expanding and outfitting facilities along Texas Central Parkway, where workers build excavation buckets for digging machines and large hammers for surface blasting.
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