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Caterpillar plant closures prompt global changes in supply pattern
Construction and mining equipment maker Caterpillar is closing plants in the US and Europe with a combined loss of around 2,800 jobs, in reaction to a drop in demand in the construction, mining and energy industries.
Products made at the plants, in Aurora, Illinois and Gosselies, Belgium, will be shifted to other manufacturing plants. In the US, this equipment will be supplied from locations within the country but supply of equipment to Europe will now come from a range of global locations.
In a statement, Caterpillar said it would move production from the Aurora plant, which makes large and medium wheel loaders, to another facility in Illinois, at Decatur, and to its North Little Rock facility in the state of Arkansas to the south. Decatur will handle the large wheel holder production and North Little Rock the medium wheel loaders. The transfer of production is expected to be complete by the end of 2018.
“Moving production from Aurora to other existing facilities allows Caterpillar to efficiently leverage manufacturing space while still preserving capacity for an upturn,” said Denise Johnson, Caterpillar group president of resource industries. “Supporting impacted employees through this transition is a top priority, as we know these actions are difficult for our talented and dedicated people.”
Global supply realignment
In Belgium, meanwhile, the company said all production operations at Gosselies were expected to end by the middle of this year, after a decision in September 2016 to reallocate production at the site to other manufacturing facilities.
A spokesperson for Caterpillar in Europe told Automotive Logistics that the excavators currently made in Belgium would in future be sourced from China, Japan and the US. Caterpillar’s facilities in Akashi (Japan), Xuzhou (China) and Victoria, Texas (US) will supply the excavators to Europe in future.
The majority of medium wheel loaders that were made at Gosselies, meanwhile, will be now sourced from Caterpillar’s plant in Grenoble, France, with others supplied from global locations.
“The reason for the facility closure is to substantially reduce operating costs and to adjust our manufacturing surface to current and expected market conditions,” added the spokesperson. “This decision is not a reflection of the team’s performance. It is a reflection of the capacity challenges we are up against.”
Caterpillar said it had reached an agreement with authorities in the region of Wallonia to sell the Gosselies site to investment company Sogepa.
According to Belgian news source, L’Avenir, the value of the transaction to Caterpillar is €143m ($152m), which is what the group invested in the site – though according to the government, the overall value of the 500 hectare site is €500m.
Locations
TIRUVALLUR
Primary Functions: Manufacturing, R&D
Industries Served: Compact Construction and Mining
Brands: Cat, Hindustan
Products Currently Produced: Backhoe loaders, Skid steer loaders, Off-highway trucks, Hydraulic Excavators
HOSUR
Primary Functions: Manufacturing, R&D
Industries Served: Power generation, Transmission
Brands: Cat, Perkins
Products Currently Produced: Engines, Gensets and Drivetrain Transmissions
About the Facility: The facility had installed 150KW solar power panels and 40% of the electrical demand for the production of 1100 series engines are met by these solar panels. Moreover, the facility had taken the initiatives to improve the green belt. More than 25% of the total area is covered with greeneries, plants and trees for a better environment.
AURANGABAD
Primary Functions: Manufacturing, R&D
Industries Served: Power Generation – Electric Power market
Brands: Perkins
Products Currently Produced: Diesel engines
About the Facility: This state-of-the-art production facility manufactures and supplies the complete range of Perkins 4000 series engines for the power generation market, from 750KVa to 2500KVA. It has a capacity to produce 3000 engines per annum with the potential to expand to 5000 engines as demand for the product grows.
BANDA
Primary Functions: Manufacturing, R&D
Industries Served: Mining, Quarry & Aggregates and Construction
Brands: Hindustan
Products Currently Produced: Wheel loaders
NOIDA
Primary Functions: Manufacturing, R&D
Industries Served: Rail
Brands: Progress Rail Innovation Pvt Ltd (PRIPL, formerly EMD Locomotive Technologies Pvt. Ltd.)
Products Currently Produced: Locomotive Control Systems
CHENNAI
Primary Functions: Design, Engineering, Manufacturing, Research and Development (R&D)
Industries Served: Caterpillar product groups across the globe
Brands: Cat
About the Facility: The Chennai facility provides product development and associated engineering services (design, virtual validation and virtual manufacturing) to Caterpillar product groups across the globe. It also provides technology solutions that enable Telematics, engineering analytics, site technologies and autonomous machines.
BENGALURU
Primary Function: Dealer capability support
Industries Served: Construction, Mining, Power Generation, Rail
Brands: Cat, FG Wilson, SEM
About the Facility:
Our distribution services focuses on dealer portfolio management across the entire Caterpillar business. The organization aligns dealer / Caterpillar strategies and initiatives, ensuring that priorities are set, and that dealer / Caterpillar resources are allocated effectively to deliver superior customer experience & market leadership through Industry-best distribution performance. The Bangalore district office has single point accountability with dealer for all our business in India, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka. The district office works to foster dealer relationships, deliver best-in-class distribution capabilities, assure dealer continuity, dealer financial health and drive dealer performance.
OTHER CATERPILLAR BRANDS WITH A PRESENCE IN THE INDIA INCLUDE:
Solar Turbines
having its registered office in Mumbai, offers gas turbine packages from 1-23MW. The products are used for development of oil, natural gas and power generation projects around the world both onshore and off shore. Solar Turbines’ products include gas turbine engines, gas compressors, and gas turbine-powered compressor, mechanical-drive and generator set packages. Some application areas include production, processing and pipeline transmission of natural gas and crude oil and generation of electricity and thermal energy for processing applications, such as manufacturing chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and food products.
Perkins
brand and the companies are wholly owned by Caterpillar Inc., since 1998. Perkins India Private Limited (PIPL) manufacturers powerful engines that help meet the needs of growing Asian customer base. PIPL produces the powerful Perkins 4000 series diesel engines ranging from 750 kW to 2250 Kw for the electric power generation market. Supporting a wide variety of applications, including prime power for offices and factories as well as standby power for hospitals and data centers, the Perkins 4000 series is the engine of choice for more and more customers for power generation.
Progress Rail Innovation Private Limited
(PRIPL, formerly known as Electro-Motive Diesel or EMD) through its combined skill set, provides solutions for several aspects of mine-to-port transportation, offering complete railroad solutions to railways across the world, including locomotives, track, repower, signaling and safety technologies. In India, the railroad benefits from PRIPL’s complete railroad solutions, availability of parts and components, price competitiveness, reduced life cycle costs and greater asset utilization. These solutions are helping Indian Railways maintain productivity and reduce idle time to assure revenues as planned and enhance technology as per global standards. The PRIPL facility in Noida, Uttar Pradesh manufactures sophisticated locomotive control systems equipment, including complex electronic control cabinets, and provides support services. This 100,000-square-foot facility employs over 150 people.
Caterpillar
Caterpillar® Parts
Here at Jaytrac, we stock & supply Caterpillar parts. From vintage D2 dozers to the huge 120-ton D11T, and from the old favourite 215 to more modern 320D hydraulic excavators. We specialise in supplying the complete one-stop-shop parts package for Cat engines. Our range includes smaller C1.1 up to larger 3500 engines in heavy plant or power generation applications.
Caterpillar is the world’s largest construction equipment manufacturer. The Caterpillar Tractor Co. – or ‘Cat’ – was formed in 1925 following the merger of the Holt Manufacturing Company and C.L. Best Tractor Co. It was Benjamin Holt who first patented a continuous track in 1907, bolting wooden slats to a chain on an agricultural tractor. Legend has it that an employee remarked that the movement of the tracks looked like a caterpillar, hence the start of the iconic brand name. You can recognise Caterpillar Machinery by its ‘Cat yellow’ paint & ‘Cat’ logo.
Caterpillar is famous for their crawler tractors, or ‘Dozers’, and these were first used in large numbers in WWI as gun-tractors. In WWII, Cat machines were manufactured in huge volumes. Their use became closely associated with the Construction Battalions, or ‘Seabees’ in the Pacific, and airfield construction in Europe. Cat Dozers could also be seen playing their part clearing beaches in the Normandy landings.
comprehensive range
Over the years, Caterpillar has developed a comprehensive range of machinery, including:
- Articulated dump trucks
- Backhoe loaders
- Hydraulic excavators
- Mining trucks
- Motor graders
- Track loaders
- Wheel loaders
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As one of America’s oldest manufacturers, Caterpillar is proud to be an American company serving the U.S. and the world since 1925.
We manufacture in every region in the world to support our global customers, but there’s no country where we employ more people than the United States. With more than 60+ primary locations in 25 states and dealers from coast to coast, Caterpillar is a part of the United States infrastructure. And that’s an infrastructure that we’re proud to have had a hand in building over the last century.
As a leading U.S. exporter, Caterpillar employed workers in the U.S. build products that are shipped around the world. Several of our U.S. facilities are single source manufacturing locations for all global sales, including:
- Gas turbines (San Diego, California)
- Smallest track-type tractors (Athens, Georgia)