![]() ![]() ![]() The research and development facility is at Mossville and the straight-six C10 to C18 engines are cast at Mapleton, both a short drive from Peoria. Caterpillar also owns the Perkins factory in Peterborough, UK, which manufactures smaller diesels and gensets using a mix of CAT and Perkins technology.īut Peoria, Illinois in the US is Caterpillar’s headquarters for highway, construction/earthmoving, commercial and pleasureboat diesels that operate on distillate, and this is where the C-Series of marine diesels are concepted, designed, and evaluated. The marine division, known as Caterpillar Marine Power Systems, is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, where medium-speed heavy fuel oil MaK Motoren diesels (the company was acquired in 1997) are built. The annual sales are almost AU$36.5 billion. Established in 1925, it currently employs more than 80,000 people directly, with a worldwide dealer network of 182. Andrew Norton headed to the US for a firsthand look at Caterpillar’s acert technologyĬaterpillar is the world’s largest manufacturer of diesel engines, with more than 500,000 units sold each year. ![]()
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