DRIVING FORCE CLAAS Industrietechnik is a global player in the development of advanced drive technology and hydraulic solutions. Philip Yorke takes a closer look at a remarkable company and its latest, groundbreaking innovative products and solutions.
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LAAS Industrietechnik is a wholly owned subsidiary of the world renowned CLAAS Group of Germany, one of the world’s leading providers of harvesters, tractors, sowing machinery and agricultural systems. The affiliate company was founded 56 years ago at its present site, located at Paderborn in western Germany where over 650 highly skilled staff maintain its reputation for quality and innovation. Today the company produces drive and hydraulic
products and solutions that are used both within the Claas Group and also in a wide variety of other industrial sectors and applications. These range from agricultural and municipal equipment and complex construction machinery to offshore technology. The company’s modern factory in Paderborn was recently upgraded and re-structured to offer a new, state-of-the-art testing centre, designed to provide its customers with the most advanced testing technology available today. This latest facility is also designed to optimise the quality and efficiency of the company’s drive technology and hydraulic systems products. This latest investment allows the company to evaluate exhaustively its advanced components and drive systems during the final stages of production. In addition, it offers clients the opportunity to participate in the overall project management process. Another € 3.5 million was invested in a new logistics centre which began operation in Summer 2013. This was part of the rearrangement of the facility site and marked a huge progress in the internal rationalisation and optimisation process.
World CLAAS driving technology CLAAS Industrietechnik is a leading producer of drive technology and hydraulics. The company’s outstanding product is the TERRA TRAC system, the world leading rubber trac undercarriage system. 122 Industry Europe
