The fourth Pottinger production plant was officially opened on June 11, 2021. Together with the company owners, the management team, employees and a small gathering of invited guests attended the handover of the new plant in St. Georgen near Grieskirchen (AT).
The general Business Climate Index for the Agricultural Machinery Industry in Europe has continued to increase sharply after having reached the positive range in October for the first time since mid-2019. In January 2021, the index is at +44 points (on a scale of –100 to +100).
Bobcat will expand its presence in the European compact equipment market in 2021 with small wheeled loaders to complement a current portfolio of skid-steer and tracked loaders, and telescopic handlers.
With increasing global reach as companies target exports, the biggest independent European agricultural equipment manufacturers continue to strengthen their position among the titans of the industry.
An ambitious program of strategic acquisitions, partnerships and distribution agreements has created northern Europe’s largest agricultural machinery dealer groups. The group operates in 9 countries and holds distributor and dealer contracts with AGCO, Claas, Deere and New Holland.
If you rank agricultural machinery topics by the degree of controversy they produce few, if any, would beat chemical crop protection. However, this is also the agricultural machinery sector that is offering a disproportionately high number of new and/or improved ideas for setting the already high standards in application accuracy even higher.
Plummeting returns from sugar beet crops as a result of market liberalization in Europe has caused beet harvester production at Exel Industries to be restructured in light of falling demand for the big ticket machines.
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