Press releases

Prince Charles has been presented with a miniature combine harvester from CLAAS as a gift during his visit to troops in Gütersloh. Harsewinkel's Mayor Sabine Amsbeck-Dopheide gave him the TUCANO model as a present from the "combine harvester town of Harsewinkel".

Krasnodar / Moscow;   CLAAS is going to strengthen its activities in the Russian Federation and plans to extend its production site in Krasnodar in the future. As a result, our company has now agreed a contract with the Krasnodar Region to purchase additional plots of land.

Harsewinkel/Tashkent;   CLAAS has started to assemble combine harvesters at a new plant in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. It is planned that tractors and balers will also be produced in future.

CLAAS Tractor SAS invests in difficult times and continues paving the way for the future. Set in motion at the end of 2008, CLAAS Tractor's SAS investment in a new ultramodern paintwork line was realised with its launch a few days ago.

We sadly announce the death of our shareholder Prof. Dr. h.c. Günther Claas. He passed away on May 3rd in the 79th year of his life after a short and serious illness.

A few days ago, the thousandth XERION rolled off line four at the XERION production plant in Harsewinkel, Germany. The white giant was resplendent in a special white paint finish. The employees of the production plant turned out in force to witness the unveiling of the super machine and to bask in the glow of the photographers’ flashbulbs.

Bern / Oberbipp;    A new, large Swiss agricultural engineering company is currently being formed. Service Company AG, Oberbipp and Landtechnik Zollikofen (a division of fenaco Agrartechnik, Bern) want to work together as partners in Swiss agriculture. The most important business area is the maintenance of the whole product range of the agricultural machinery manufacturer CLAAS.