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Acquisitions : |
scope="col"Company or Asset Acquired |
scope="col" class="unsortable"Location |
scope="col"Date |
scope="col"Acquired From |
scope="col" class="unsortable"Products |
scope="col" class="unsortable"Notes |
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Trackson |
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States |
1951 |
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Traxcavators (tracked loaders) and pipelayers |
"Traxcavator" became a Cat brand |
Towmotor Corporation |
Mentor, Ohio, United States |
1965 |
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Forklifts |
In 1992 became Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklifts, a joint venture 80% owned by Mitsubishi |
Solar Division and Turbomach Division |
San Diego, California, United States |
1981 |
International Harvester Company |
Industrial gas turbines |
Became Solar Turbines Incorporated, a wholly owned subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc. |
Barber-Greene Co. Inc. |
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States |
1991 |
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Paving products |
Renamed Caterpillar Paving Products |
Krupp MaK Maschinenbau GmbH |
Kiel, Germany |
1997 |
Fried. Krupp GmbH |
Marine diesel engines |
Renamed MaK Motoren GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc. and will continue to use the MaK brand name. |
Perkins Limited |
Peterborough, United Kingdom |
1998 |
Lucas Varity |
Small diesel engines |
Produces both Cat and Perkins branded engines |
Kato Engineering |
Mankato, Minnesota, United States |
1998 |
Rockwell Automation, Inc. |
Large electrical generators |
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F.G. Wilson |
Larne, Northern Ireland |
1999 |
Emerson Electric Company |
Generators. Produces both Cat and Olympian branded generators |
Asset swap. Emerson acquired Kato Engineering from Caterpillar as part of transaction. |
Earthmoving Equipment Division |
Chennai, India |
2000 |
Hindustan Motors Ltd. |
Construction equipment |
Renamed Caterpillar India |
Caterpillar Elphinstone Pty. Ltd. |
Burnie, Australia |
2000 |
Elphinstone Pty. Ltd. |
Underground mining equipment |
Acquired 50% interest in joint venture from partner Elphinstone. Renamed Caterpillar Underground Mining |
Sabre Engines Ltd. |
United Kingdom |
2000 |
Sabre Group Ltd. |
Marine diesel engines |
Renamed Caterpillar Marine Power UK. Produces both Cat and Perkins-Sabre branded engines |
Bitelli SpA |
Minerbio, Italy |
2000 |
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Asphalt pavers, cold planers, compactors and other road maintenance products |
Merged into Caterpillar Paving Products |
Wealdstone Engineering Ltd. |
Rushden, United Kingdom |
2004 |
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Remanufacturer of gasoline and diesel engines |
Organized under Caterpillar Remanufacturing Services |
Williams Technologies, Inc. |
Summerville, South Carolina, United States |
2004 |
Delco Remy International Inc. |
Remanufacturer of automatic transmissions, torque converters and engines |
Organized under Caterpillar Remanufacturing Services |
Turbomach SA |
Riazzino, Switzerland |
2004 |
Babcock Borsig AG |
Packager of industrial gas turbines and related systems |
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Progress Rail Services Corporation |
Albertville, Alabama |
2006 |
One Equity Partners |
Supplier of railroad and transit system products and services. Owner of Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. |
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Hindustan PowerPlus Ltd. |
Mathagondapalli, Tamil Nadu, India |
2006 |
Hindustan Motors |
Engine components and heavy-duty diesel engines |
Buyout of joint venture formed in 1988. Renamed Caterpillar Power India Private Ltd. Merged into Caterpillar India in 2008. |
Eurenov S.A.S. |
Chaumont, France |
2007 |
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Automotive component remanufacturing |
Organized under Caterpillar Remanufacturing Services |
Forestry Division of Blount International, Inc. |
Portland, Oregon, United States |
2007 |
Blount International, Inc. |
Timber harvesting and processing equipment, loaders and attachments |
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Shandong Engineering Machinery (SEM) |
China |
2008 |
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Wheel loaders |
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Lovat Inc. |
Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
2008 |
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Tunnel boring machines |
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Shin Caterpillar Mitsubishi Ltd. |
Sagami & Akashi, Japan |
2008 |
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries |
Construction equipment |
Joint venture since 1963, after purchase of majority renamed Caterpillar Japan Ltd. |
MGE Equipamentos & Serviços Ferroviários |
Diadema, São Paulo, Brazil |
2008 |
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Railroad equipment remanufacturing |
Subsidiary of Progress Rail Services Corporation |
Gremada Industries, Inc. |
West Fargo, North Dakota, United States |
2008 |
Gremada Industries, Inc. |
Remanufacturing transmissions, torque converters, and final drives |
Organized under Caterpillar Remanufacturing Services |
Twin City Signal Inc. |
Hudson, Wisconsin, United States |
2008 |
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Signaling, traffic control |
Division of Progress Rail Services Corporation |
JCS Co., Ltd. |
Yangsan City, Kyungnam, South Korea |
2009 |
Jinsung T.E.C. Co., Ltd. |
Seal technology |
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GE Inspection Products |
Erie, Pennsylvania, United States |
2010 |
GE Transportation |
Rail inspection products |
Division of Progress Rail Services Corporation |
FCM Rail Ltd. |
Fenton, Michigan, United States |
2010 |
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Rail maintenance equipment leasing |
Division of Progress Rail Services Corporation |
Zeit Comercio e Montagem de Equipamentos Ltda |
Curitiba, Parana, Brazil |
2010 |
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Automation and electrical equipment for locomotives and other industries |
Acquired by MGE, a division of Progress Rail Services Corporation |
Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. |
La Grange, Illinois, United States |
2010 |
Greenbriar Equity Group LLC, Berkshire Partners LLC, et al. |
Railroad locomotives and large diesel engines |
Wholly owned subsidiary of Progress Rail Services Corporation |
Underground Imaging Technologies, Inc. (UIT) |
Latham, New York, United States |
2010 |
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Geophysical services, specializing in providing three-dimensional representations of underground utilities |
Organized under Cat Advanced Systems Division |
Caterpillar Xuzhou Ltd |
Xuzhou, China |
2010 |
Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group |
Construction equipment |
Joint venture since 1995, will become wholly owned subsidiary Caterpillar Xuzhou |
CleanAIR Systems, Inc. |
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States |
2010 |
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Customized stationary aftertreatment solutions for internal combustion engines |
Wholly owned subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc. organized under Customer Services Support Division |
MWM Holding GmbH |
Mannheim, Germany |
2010 |
3i Group Plc |
Gas and diesel powered generator sets |
will become part of Caterpillar's Electric Power division (formerly Deutz Power Systems division of Deutz-Fahr) |
Bucyrus International, Inc. |
South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States |
Pending |
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Surface and underground mining equipment |
Transaction expected to close mid-2011 pending approval by Bucyrus shareholders |