(short for Case-New Holland; -ADR's) is the second largest
Manufacturer of
Agricultural Equipment and the third largest maker of
Construction Equipment in the world. Based in
Amsterdam ,
Netherlands , in the most recent year it produced
$ 11,545 million in revenues, and is 91% owned by
Fiat .
CNH Global's main competitor in the agriculture market is
Deere & Company , while it is behind
CAT (#1) and
Komatsu (#2) in the construction arena.
Farm implements include: attachments and loaders for tractors, commercial and residential mowers, harvesters, hay balers, planting and seeding equipment, sprayers, tillage equipment, and tractors, and account for around 70% of sales. The company makes a wide range of construction machinery including: articulated trucks, backhoe loaders, crawler loaders, directional drills, dozers, excavators - wheeled and crawler, forklifts, graders, skid steer loaders (miniloader), telescopic handlers, and wheel loaders. CNH sells its products through 12,000 dealers and distributors in 160 countries. It also receives a portion of its revenue from its CNH Capital division, which provides
Capital Lending to equipment buyers in
Canada and the
United States .
CNH has 31
Factories in 16 countries, including two each in
China and
India , one in
Uzbekistan , and 12 in the United States. It also has 26
Research And Development (R&D) centers in 12 countries.
The combined companies of CNH Global have a strong and rich, 170-year, tradition in the manufacture of agricultural equipment.
The combined company traces its
International Harvester (IH) roots back to
1830s , and
Robert McCormick in
Virginia developing his mechanical reaper. The
McCormick Harvesting Machine Company , formed in
Chicago ,
1848 , with Cyrus H. McCormick, Robert's son, as its leader. It would become International Harvester in
1902 after a merger with the Deering Harvester Company.
While the McCormick’s were building IH,
Jerome Increase Case was also forging ahead with Racine Threshing Machine Works in
1842 , in
Racine, Wisconsin . J. I. Case’s wooden thresher would bring a ten-fold increase, over hand thresher, to grain production. In
1869 Case produced a belt-driven steam-boiler thresher; this innovation would lead the company to become the larger maker of steam engines by
1886 .
Steyr was founded in
1864 Austria by
Josef Werndl to make
Bicycles . In
1915 Steyr rolled out its first tractor, and the popular 180-model was introduced in
1947 . The company introduced the first crop loader and the first four-wheel drive tractor in the
1960s .
Alexandre Braud built a stationary thresher in
1875 , in
Loire-Atlantique region of western
France . Braud was born and a factory constructed in
Saint Mars-La-Jaille , France in 1898, then moved to
Coex . It produced the first grape harvester in
1975 , the model 1020, and then the legendary model 1014 in 1979.
New Holland, Pennsylvania was the site that gave its name to the company founded by
Abe Zimmerman in
1895 , the New Holland Machine Company. In
1899 Zimmerman rolled-out his portable feed mill, the first freeze-proof cylinder tank engine came in
1901 , and the first stone crusher was unveiled in
1910 .
CNH also includes the tractor businesses of both
Fiat and
Ford ; the combination of threshing machine maker
Werkhuizen Leon Claeys , founded by Leon Claeys in
1906 ; and Emerson and Kenneth Summach's Flex-Coil, founded in
1952 to produce the coil packer, which is used in the seeding process.
- CNH Capital America LLC
- New Holland North America
- Kobelco Construction Machinery America LLC
