13.12.2007 - “Factory of the Year 2007”. CLAAS Hungaria receives award in the category “Outstanding production in Eastern Europe”

A German nationwide benchmark competition establishes the top group of manufacturing companies. Six companies receive awards for outstanding results in individual categories, amongst them CLAAS Hungary, the first factory in Eastern Europe.

11.12.2007 - CLAAS Saulgau GmbH and Transa cement their partnership

CLAAS is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of agricultural machinery. Every third combine harvester sold in Europe is produced by the company based in the Westphalian town of Harsewinkel. Claas manufactures its forage harvesters in Bad Saulgau, near Lake Constance, [...]

10.12.2007 - VDI Knowledge Forum: Marketing is the motor of innovation

It is not innovations which the economy is frequently lacking in, but their marketable implementation. The motor for this implementation can and must be successful technical marketing. The VDI Sales Engineer Day 2007 shows how advantages for the customer and competitive edge can be achieved by targeted management.

06.12.2007 - The challenge of global growth – DLA takes a look over CLAAS’ shoulder

The winner of the German Logistics Award 2007, the agricultural vehicles and equipment manufacturer, CLAAS, invited guests to come and take a look behind the scenes at the end of November – and well over 100 participants made their way to [...]

23.11.2007 - Konvekta is awarded the “Deutsche Umweltpreis 2007” (German Environment Prize)

The company Konvekta, who have supplied components and systems for air conditioners in harvesters to CLAAS for many years now, were awarded the “Deutsche Umweltpreis 2007” (German Environment Prize) by the “Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt [...]

21.11.2007 - 4th Purchasers’ Day in Hanover 16-17/11/2007

Under the motto “Value Sourcing - Sourcing Success“, the fourth Purchasers’ Day of the CLAAS Group took place in Hanover this year. More than 100 purchasers from six nations (France, Hungary, Germany, Russia, Slovakia and India) got [...]

20.11.2007 - Tractor-World-Tour has reached its destination

Started in Ostwestfalen and arrived in Hanover after 20,000 kilometres After a ten-month journey around the world, tractor driver Matthias Lause (26) and his Claas ARES tractor arrived at Agritechnica in Hanover. The trained agricultural [...]

12.11.2007 - Claas wins Innovation Award 2007

Harsewinkel/Berlin. The BME Innovation Award is regarded as the most prestigious national purchasing and logistics management award. This year Claas was presented with the award for its successful implementation of the value sourcing [...]

05.11.2007 - “Next Wave Sourcing“ – New possibilities of Value Creation in Purchasing

In connection with the global initiative “Next Wave Sourcing“, the management consultants Booz Allen Hamilton have examined the procurement agenda of leading companies with regards to their future focus and competitiveness. For this [...]

26.10.2007 - CLAAS wins German Logistics Award 2007

With its International Supply Chain Initiative, the CLAAS KGaA mbH wins the German Logistics Award 2007, thus achieving one of the highest awards in the German economy. On 17 October 2007, the CLAAS KGaA was presented with the German [...]

26.09.2007 - African Week in Harsewinkel

There’s an African flavour in the Harsewinkel canteen this week, with African dishes on the menu since Monday. Information is also on display about the Tractor World Tour aid project. A collection campaign will be underway in the canteen [...]

20.09.2007 - GKN Mission Everest – CLAAS supports charity for children in Africa

At the 14th of May 2007 two GKN Mission Everest pilots took off in their powered paragliders (paramotors) from their Base-Camp, in the foothills of the high Himalaya, some 20 miles south of Everest in eastern Nepal. On reaching their [...]

20.09.2007 - Schaeffler Group invites journalists to the trade press workshop “Agricultural technology” to be held in East Westphalia

Journalists of the German and Dutch trade press accepted the invitation of the Schaeffler Group and were informed of product innovations or specialised solutions of the INA, FAG and LuK brands for the agricultural technology industry, on 3 [...]

20.09.2007 - "BME Innovation Award 2007": Five companies nominated

Frankfurt, 12.9.2007 The BME has encouraged successful purchase and logistics management with the "BME innovation award" since 1986. Again this year companies with the highest score were nominated from the sphere of works submitted. These [...]

12.09.2007 - A combine harvester locomotive

Unique within Germany’s railway system – a freight locomotive with a picture of a combine harvester. During a small ceremony in Berlin’s main railway station, Hartmut Mehdorn, Chief Executive of DB AG, Norbert Bensel and Cathrina Claas [...]

06.09.2007 - Erich Gutenberg Society honours Barbara Schürings´ diploma thesis

Barbara Schürings, employee associate of the CLAAS KGaA Corporate Purchasing Department, has written her diploma thesis at the Faculty of Economics of the University Bielefeld in cooperation with CLAAS. The title of the thesis is: [...]

13.08.2007 - Value analysis partnership reaches the USA

To satisfy the innovation challenge at CLAAS in Harsewinkel, the systems suppliers must be integrated into the surrounding areas of the value chain as well as production. In particular the new skills and expertise necessitated by the [...]

06.08.2007 - Innovative and successful Value Analysis - VDI Symposium on practical Value Analysis 2007

More than 100 experts met at the 7th User’s day of the Knowledge Forum of VDI (Association of German Engineers) in Geislingen to learn about the successful use of value analysis in the business operation of companies and public authorities, [...]

24.07.2007 - New possibilities for supplier sourcing in Central-/Eastern Europe

A new method of supplier sourcing was integrated into the working methods of EASD team at CLAAS. On 7th of June 2007 the EASD team had a meeting with several Hungarian suppliers in Budapest on the 1st CLAAS Future Supplier´s Conference. [...]

11.07.2007 - VDMA Materials Handling Conference 2007

As part of the VDMA Materials Handling conference, which took place in Frankfurt 12th-13th July 2007, Josip T. Tomasevic, Head of Corporate Purchasing CLAAS KgaA, gave a lecture together with Dr. Marcus Schüller, Partner of BrainNet GmbH, [...]

06.07.2007 - Voice of the Customer – TUTHILL Drive Systems listens to CLAAS

29.06.2007 - SAP Info Event – Optimized Purchasing Processes

“Efficient Purchasing Processes as Key Factor for Added Value” was SAP Deutschland AG & Co. KG’s slogan to invite to their annual informational event “Optimized Purchasing Processes” on June 12, 2007 in Cologne. More than 200 participants [...]

29.06.2007 - CLAAS rates NPRM suppliers for the future

With the start of the “concept and introduction of a group-wide rating of NPRM suppliers” on 27 June 2007, the actual suppliers of Non-Productive Materials (NPRM), i.e. non-productive wages, services and investments, have now moved into [...]

27.06.2007 - Pál Hugyecz of AGRIKON is honoured

Josip T. Tomasevic, Roland Sobisch and Pal Velkey presented a golden combine harvester to AGRIKON director Pál Hugyecz on behalf of Helmut Claas. The occasion for this was a surprise party organised by Hugyecz’ son, Zoltan, to celebrate [...]

22.06.2007 - CLAAS travels by rail

Before a combine harvester drives over a field for the first time, it has probably covered many kilometres by railway. For decades Deutsche Bahn AG has been one of the most significant logistic partners of CLAAS. Fifty per cent of the [...]

19.06.2007 - Departure of Grammer board director and introduction of successor

Co-operation between CLAAS and the seat manufacturer GRAMMER has only been in existence since the late nineties. In that time, a very intensive and exemplary system partnership has been developed. Not only have control levers integrated [...]

19.06.2007 - 1st Eastern Suppliers Day in Velizy on 9th and 10th of Mai 2007

Four suppliers Eurokov, ZTS, Agrikon and Agrostroj have been participating to the Eastern Suppliers Day in Velizy on 9th and 10th of Mai. Development of weldments parts for new tractor Projects A23 and A22 have been studied for which these [...]

13.06.2007 - International plastic forum in Harsewinkel

Plastic experts from the entire CLAAS Group attended a forum in Harsewinkel from 23 to 24 May 2007 to discuss and co-ordinate all current and future projects concerning the subject of “Plastic“. The group-wide plastic team of CLAAS is [...]

31.05.2007 - European Leaders in Procurement: Innovations in procurement

Within the forum of “European Leaders in Procurement” (ELP), which was held in London on 24 May 2007, Mr. Josip T. Tomasevic, head of Corporate Purchasing at CLAAS KGaA, presented a review of how CLAAS has strengthened procurement [...]

30.05.2007 - New Logistics Centre Opens

Claas invests in the latest goods receiving system: The new goods receiving system at the Claas factory in Harsewinkel has now been officially opened. Cathrina Claas and Manager Jan-Hendrik Mohr symbolically cut through the tape at a [...]

30.05.2007 - "Success factors in purchasing" – Successful practise with forward sourcing samples

The management of supply and the organising of purchasing not only play a decisive role in the orientation of global sourcing and protection of the supply chain, but also in the earliest integration of the suppliers into development [...]

24.05.2007 - CLAAS fights against the CO2 emission

From the 01.07.07 the CLAAS Group will be supplied with electricity by EON Westfalen-Weser AG, Paderborn. This group wide acquisition is valid until end of 2009. In order to analyze and to optimize the electricity consumption in future, [...]

03.05.2007 - 31.1 kilometres for a good cause

CLAAS employees support the donation project The legs still hurt a little bit but the shared pleasure of merchants Mr. Christian Hilleke and Mr. Mark Brünger of CLAAS will certainly last much longer than the pain, because both of them [...]

03.05.2007 - "Future Meeting" with technology supplier Gates

The management of CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH and the technology supplier Gates met on 21 February 2007 to exchange views on the status of “Future Meetings“ between the two companies. "Future Meetings" with leading technology [...]

19.04.2007 - New Heroes in Purchasing

Just beating down prices and rotely “carrying out” orders? That´s a thing of the past. Julia Leendertse, journalist of the German trade and commerce magazine “WirtschaftsWoche”, has correctly recognised in her report “Neue Helden” (“New [...]

05.04.2007 - First polish BrainNet Procurement Executive Forum in Warsaw

The global procurement process was the subject of the first polish BrainNet Procurement Executive Forum, held on March, 15th 2007 in Warsaw Sheraton Hotel. Over 50 representatives of manager level and specialists from the biggest Polish [...]

30.03.2007 - The globetrotter visits premium partner KUKA Roboter in Gersthofen

Together with the chairman of the management board, Mr. Bernd Liepert, employees of KUKA welcomed the globetrotter Matthias Lause during his stopover in Gersthofen. The qualified agricultural machine builder is driving his tractor around [...]

26.03.2007 - CLAAS congratulates Kühne & Nagel on the opening of the latter’s new headquarters in Germany

21 March 2007 – the companies’ long-standing partnership is reinforced On 21 March 2007 Kühne & Nagel moved into its new German headquarters in Hamburg’s HafenCity, Europe’s largest municipal development project. The modern, stylish [...]

15.03.2007 - Globetrotter visits MTU in Friedrichshafen

Matthias Lause, who is currently driving an Ares tractor around the world and collecting donations on behalf of the relief organisation CARE, visited the project’s premium partner and sponsor MTU in Friedrichshafen. The globetrotter was [...]

08.03.2007 - Sponsors’ Party for the Tractor World Tour at SIMA

More than 50 participants from a total of 24 suppliers from the CLAAS Group who are sponsoring the Tractor World Tour came to the sponsors’ party at SIMA in Paris on Monday 5 March 2007. There, the participants had the chance to talk to [...]

07.02.2007 - BME benchmark study once more indicates optimal steel purchasing by the CLAAS Group

Excellent – Team Steel did it again Just as in the previous year, the proFIT Team Steel participated in a benchmark study “Optimized steel purchase 2006”, conducted by the BME (Federal association for material management, purchasing and [...]

05.02.2007 - Load Securement concerns us all …

This was the motto of a seminar on the topic of load securement held on 13 January 2007 at the freight forwarder Universal Transporte Michels GmbH (UTM) in Paderborn. Apart from UTM’s business management and drivers, CLAAS also [...]

02.02.2007 - The globetrotter visits Total

After visiting Joseph Dresselhaus Befestigungstechnik GmbH & Co. KG in Herford, Matthias Lause travelled on to Hamm to the CLAAS Service and Parts GmbH where he greeted „Total“, another sponsor of the Tractor World Tour. Total supplies [...]

02.02.2007 - 2nd Summit of specialists for CIS train transports in Harsewinkel

By invitation of CLAAS, a four-member delegation of the Belarus railroad visited Harsewinkel in December 2006 to attend the 2nd “Railroad Summit” of the specialists for CIS rail transports. Staff members of Railog GmbH and Jörg [...]

31.01.2007 - CLAAS Globetrotter visits Dresselhaus

After the start of the CLAAS Tractor World Tour on 18 January 2007 in Harsewinkel, Matthias Lause visited Joseph Dresselhaus Befestigungstechnik GmbH & Co. KG, the fastener company, in Herford on 19 January 2007.

22.01.2007 - Around the world with a tractor

CLAAS and its suppliers support a donation project A CLAAS tractor goes round the world and collects donations for an aid programme for the relief organisation CARE. The driver, a 25-year-old qualified agricultural machine builder from [...]

09.01.2007 - Agrikon invests in the future

Following an 8-month construction period, the 6250 m² assembly hall in the immediate vicinity of the main plant was finally dedicated for its purpose on 24 October 2006. The construction costs of € 2.5 million for the expansion of the [...]

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