Hitachi Construction Machinery’s Tsuchiura Works and Hitachinaka-Rinko Works Featured on YouTube by U.S. Influencer Aaron Witt
We are pleased to share that Hitachi Construction Machinery’s Tsuchiura Works and Hitachinaka-Rinko Works have been featured on the YouTube channel of prominent U.S. influencer Aaron Witt.
Aaron Witt is the founder and CEO of Build Witt, a Tennessee-based media company. With a total social media following of 2.3 million across platforms such as YouTube (494,000 subscribers), Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, and podcasts, his audience includes many customers and distributors of mining machinery, giving him significant influence within the industry.
This video series is a three-part project based on Aaron Witt’s visit to Japan in 2025. Following the first video featuring the quarry site of Fujisaco, the newly released videos are the second and third installments in the series.
The second installment focuses on the manufacturing site for medium-sized hydraulic excavators at the Tsuchiura Works, while the third installment highlights the manufacturing site for ultra-large hydraulic excavators and rigid dump trucks—mining machinery—at the Hitachinaka-Rinko Works.
In the videos, Aaron Witt carefully documents each stage of the production process, highlighting how the products are progressively brought to completion efficiently while ensuring worker safety, all from his unique perspective.
The videos also feature a special segment on Hitachi Construction Machinery’s history, showcasing iconic machines such as the U05—Japan’s first domestically produced mechanical excavator developed in 1949—and the UH03, the foundation model of modern hydraulic excavators introduced in 1965.
Please experience Hitachi Construction Machinery's technology and history through these videos.
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