Here is KHL’s list of the world’s largest equipment makers by revenue. (KHL is a construction-industry media group with titles such as International Construction.) Interesting to note the significance of merger/acquisition activity. Check out the frequency of Chinese manufacturers between No.s 19 and 50. http://www.khl.com/news/article.asp?articleid=5459&magazineid=6 Story here shows a pie chart comparing market shares of the top 10. L 1 Caterpillar 2 Komatsu 3 Terex 4 Volvo Construction Equipment 5 Liebherr 6 Hitachi Construction Machinery 7 John Deere 8 CNH 9 Sandvik Mining and Construction 10 JCB 11 Atlas Copco CMT 12 Metso Minerals 13 Manitowoc Crane Group 14 Oshkosh Access Equipment (JLG) 15 Hyundai Heavy Industries 16 Doosan Infracore 17 Kobelco Construction Machinery 18 Wirtgen Group 19 Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group (XCMG) 20 Manitou 21 Ammann 22 Putzmeister 23 Sumitomo Heavy Industries 24 Hiab 25 Tadano 26 Sany Heavy Industries 27 Fayat Group 28 Changsha Zoomlion 29 Guangxi Liugong 30 Wacker Neuson Group 31 Palfinger 32 Haulotte Group 33 Kubota 34 Astec Industries 35 Bauer 36 Altec Industries 37 Xiamen Xiagong Group 38 Telcon 39 Bell Equipment 40 Bharat Earth Movers Ltd. (BEML) 41 Takeuchi 42 Boart Longyear 43 Furukawa 44 Aichi 45 Shantui 46 China Infrastructure Machinery Holdings (Longgong) 47 Merlo 48 Skyjack 49 Gehl 50 Kato Works
Global Business ? Looks like the Saudis are absent from the large construction equipment business. And the Russians . Considering their wealth of Oil and Gas.
Kubota and Takeuchi are pretty low.
Beat me to it!
Go Cat!!!!!
CAT is a bit of a given. Your surprised at the position of Kubota and Takeuchi, you have to take in to account that they maybe big in their areas they target being mini/midi size diggers/track loaders but in the bigger picture they're not really big players at all compaired to all the companies in the top ten
With the current economy, any updates on this chart?
I haven't seen anything. Chances are, it's compiled round the first quarter when companies are reporting annual revs from the previous year.
Wow, very interesting list there. I was wondering where Kato Works would be, then saw it at 50, haha, suppose they just made it.
You used the word "makers" in your initial post. Did you mean to use the word "seller"? For example - I don't think John Deere is that big in actual manufacturing, are they - they are pretty much a paint and decal store now, are they not?
Interesting Table. Construction equipment only tho eh? Companys like Volvo make cars and Highway trucks as well .. And what about Hitachi .. They make electronics ..
Their best sellers with the exception of their excavators are all "homebuilt". And in the case of Bell they use Bell's trucks but check out Bell's website it's mostly rebadged Deere. I personally think to form "marriages" with other mfg's to round out your product line is great as long as it doesn't water down your own product. Look at the Terex group. It's a big group of small companies. In those rankings the equipment they mfg for Bell or Leihberr is it included in the Deere or Bell/Leihberr total?
I also wondered about that, but it is true that so many companies are 'married' as you so nicely put it. Though I'll take a guess and say that Bell's sales of, say graders, is put under as Deere grader sales as well as Bell's grader sales. I would say that the same works for the Bell ADTs that are rebadged as John Deeres or Hitachis, if that makes sense? As for Bell's product line, most of it's sales come in the form of homebuilt backhoes, tractors, ADTs and tri-wheelers, as well as scraper tractors, or as we call them, haulers. The products that are not their own would be the excavators (Kato Works), wheel loaders, graders and bulldozers (Rebadged John Deere), whilst the TLB uses mostly JD components, but the side shift frame is built in S.A. Also, the forestry products are mainly John Deere. The miniature loaders, the three smallest in the Bell line-up are Liebherr.
I thought Deere built backhoes for Bell but now I found it different. Same design it's just that Bell builds there's in South Afica. This explains it. http://www.bellequipment.com/live/internet/homepage.nsf/Home.htm?OpenForm
The backhoe, engine, loader, cab, hyadraulics, everything come from JD cept the sideshift frame, so ja, you are pretty much on the money with that.
So what kind of reputation do all these Bell badged Deere products have out there?
They really are up there with Caterpillar and New Holland, which suffer tremendous popularity here, along with JCB being the most common amongst smaller contractors, like owner operators, that sort of thing. Most Plant hirers use Caterpillar machines, but don't shy away from Bell or New Holland and JCB either. Many operators swear by them, as they come from a 'local' brand name, and are very rugged and cheaper than the Cats, JCB's, Volvo's and Komatsu's. I've heard a lot of grumblings about the old G series machines having rather weak transmissions, but mostly from guys who used the machines and then replaced them with New Hollands(Don't they also use ZF trannies?) before the J series was released, so they're not able to tell me if the transmissions have improved... But overall, they are very popular, and bode well with construction companies who don't hire in or hire out their machines.
This is an interesting list. I knew who the top two would be but there were some surprises for me. Deere is a rebadge company anymore. Correct me if I'm wrong but they only actually manufacture backhoes and some of the larger ag tractors right?
they make all of there ag stuff and lawn tractors and most of their heavy equipment
Sorry have to disagree with you on that one. They don't make their excavators,loaders,dozers and haul trucks (as stated earlier in this thread). I think they make their 6000,7000,8000 series tractors. Midsize tractors used to be made in India. Not sure on the compact tractors anymore. The value line tractors are all rebadged tractors. You might be right on the mowers though. Anymore Komatsu is the only manufacturer that designs and builds the majority of their components. I think Cat and Komatsu are the only companies that have forging plants still.
really is that all you think they make you are sadly mistakin i think you are forgeting all the implements and combines and cotton pickers they make there skids and a bunch of logging stuff and dozers up to a certain size...........my dad retired out of deere with 36 years my uncle just retired out hes was in experimental and my aunt just retired from deere also.......
I'll give you the implements forgot about those. With all that family experience seems like you should have known about them not making most of their construction equipment and some of their ag. Are they building the high speed dozer? Looks like a 9000 series just yellow? Wonder where the idea came from for the tracks? We'll see if their design is any better?
Not sure if you can answer this but since your Uncle was in experimental. Did they ever complete the tractor they built in 2005 or so that was GPS operated? Looked like a bumper car almost, hard to describe.
oh yea i guess i did forget about their sprayers .........we only have a few things in the construction side a 270 skid and a 555g crawler loader and a old ih 175 but i farm for a living and own 15 deere tractors and 2 combines more deere implements than i can count and since it costs a good 400,000 to get int o a new combine i guess i would know a few things about the ag side
I don't know where you get your info. 5000 series tractors are built in Augusta, Georgia, 6000 series in Mannheim, Germany, 7000 & 8000 series built in Waterloo, Iowa. For quite a few years Deere rebadged Yanmar tractors up to about the 35-40 hp range but don't know if they do anymore. Other than that Deere's tractors may come from overseas but wherever they come from Deere built them. Their dozers up to 850 size and loader and maybe even backhoes are built in Dubuque or Moline Iowa. I was under the impression that Deere "bought" their excavators from Hitachi but that's not the case. I believe they are built in USA somewhere with a few Deere components with the engine being the major one. All their forestry equipment is built in Ontario somewhere. I believe they kept the Timberjack plants running when they bought them out. The haul trucks (Bell) and the 1050 and bigger dozers (Liehberr) and crawler loaders (Liehberr) are the only pure rebadgings. The rest have at least some Deere components. As far as a casting plant Deere has one as well. In Waterloo they cast their engine blocks as well as a few major components such as axles, transmission cases etc. If you would count Deere's subsidary Funk Power they might be building more of their own components than Cat or Komatsu.
An International how did that sneak into your fleet? Yeah you should know something about the ag side with that many machines. Seems like everybody assumes a good old American company like Deere makes all of their equipment but in reality they import/rebadge a lot of equipment. Facts are facts that's all I was trying to point out. Our family farm is all green by the way.
Unfortunately, it seems as if it may be you who has the facts wrong here. They do import and rebadge trackloaders, the 950J and 1050J dozers, the articulated trucks, and the smallest of the wheel loaders. They do make all of their dozers from the 850J on down. The rest of the loaders are made in Davenport Iowa, and the excavators are built at a plant owned by the Deere Hitachi joint venture in Kernersville NC. So two of their product lines are made overseas and imported, and a couple of machines in other lines are imported. I think that would disqualify the idea that they rebadge most of their equipment. You are right about one thing though, facts are facts.
they all worked at the ankeney plant he worked mostly on the cottonpickers......i dont run all green i also have 2 8970 newhollands and a tg 285 newholland as far as the ih175 it has a 4in 1 on it i just love that old loader
John Deere world map: http://www.deere.com/en_US/compinfo/media/pdf/publications/jd_journal/journal_no_vu_2002.pdf Dt
That map is interesting. Looks like we all were right kind of. They have a ton of worlwide locations! Have a lot in the U.S. as well. Deere was one of the companies on the list that surprised me for their postion. I would have guessed them a few spots lower on the list.
There are a number of folks on here that have made the point that Deere is FAR from a rebadging company. I will attempt to truly clear the water here, at least from a construction equipment side. Out of the 122 models of construction and forestry equipment that Deere makes (excluding the felling heads that could go on anyone's excavator) Deere manufactures in their own factories 95 of them. Of the 27 that are not manufactured in a Deere factory, 19 of those are excavators or forestry swing machines that are built by Hitachi for the Deere-Hitachi joint venture. Its actually splitting hairs on the excavators anyway since Deere has sales and marketing responsibility for ALL Hitachi products in North America anyway. So that leaves 8 models that are "rebadged", 3 of which are crawler loaders which Deere has announced will be coming in house. So that really leaves 5 models (244J, 304J, 344J, 950J & 1050J) that Liebherr builds for Deere. Of these 5 models, Deere has placed a lot of feedback into making them much better fitted for the North American market. I can see how this could have been perceived a few short years ago. Deere has gone a long way to bring more products in house and get away from rebadging every gap in the product line. One last point. Did you know that Deere is currently the ONLY manfacturer to produce an American built motorgrader? That is until Cat gets their factory built in AR and Volvo completes their move to SC from Canada.
Farmboy that is incorrect Cat builds motor graders in decatur ill. Ive been through the assembly line last september
Are you talking Sept 09 or Sept 08? It is my belief that earlier this year they shut down MG production in NA and continued bringing in graders from Brazil in preparation for the move to AR.
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Been to a certain equipment yard who stores IMPORTED EQUIPMENT.. Bunch of CAT BRAZILIAN GRADERS!!! Next some one will say they build Excavators here..Wrong too. Small Dozers...WRONG too. and so on. Really becoming a world manufacturing whether we like it or not.