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Jalison Cruz managing Oxbo do Brasil

Oxbo appointed Jalison Cruz as general manager of Oxbo Brazil. In this role, Cruz will be responsible for the overall leadership of Oxbo’s Brazilian operations, including strategy execution, business performance, and continued development of the team.  Cruz brings more than 20 years of experience in...

Vice President Procurement AGCO

Jens Jorch will be joining AGCO in early September as Vice President Procurement. Jorch brings more than 20 years of international industrial experience, including over 15 years in global direct and indirect procurement. Jens Jorch joins AGCO from BMW Group, where he held senior leadership roles acr...

Siloking enforces management board

Siloking Mayer Maschinenbau is systematically aligning its leadership structure to support further growth. Effective August 1, Jürgen Rückert has been appointed to the executive management team. Alongside Georg Mayer as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Margit Mayer as General Manager, Jürgen Rücker...

Leadership changes at AGCO

AGCO Corporation appointed Damon Audia and Indira Agarwal at new positions in the company. Audia becomes President of PTx & Corporate Strategy, whereas Agarwal has moved to the position of Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer. In this position, she succeeds Damon Audia. Damon Audia’s n...

Helmut Claas would have turned 100

Claas is marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Helmut Claas, honouring the engineer and entrepreneur whose innovations helped transform modern agricultural technology, while shaping the company into a global player in the ag machinery industry. Born in Harsewinkel, Germany in 1926, Helmut Cl...

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“Let the future begin”

The global ag machinery market is continuously evolving. AGCO aims to be in the forefront of new technology. Serving their own customers, but also mixed fleet operations. With new solutions in precision ag, autonomous vehicles and engines running on clean energy. Always with full focus on the farmer...

“Agricultural robots” today at Agritechnica digital

“Agricultural robots” is the first topic in new webinar series on startup technologies, presented in Agritechnica digital. Free-to-attend ‘AgTech’ events explore topics shaping startup innovation scene: robotics, digitalization, circular economy and soil health. Today, 18 January 2022, Agritechnica ...

“Cotton King” high clearance tractor

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan in Central Asia, are rich in cotton production. In order to meet technological constraints, Lovol launched the high clearance TX1104-H “Cotton King” tractor, specifically designed for cotton production in these countries. Th...

“Agritechnica Asia live” is approaching

From 24-26 August, Agritechnica Asia Live 2022 will be held in Can Tho City, Vietnam. At Agritechnica Live, machinery will be demonstrated in the field. Concurrently there’s an exhibition with a seminar programme. The previous edition was held in Myanmar, which attracted visitors from across South E...

“I wanted to disrupt the industry”

Craig Rupp is a self-made man. The founder and owner of US based Sabanto, has a clear vision on automation in agriculture. “I wanted to disrupt the industry,” he says. And so, he did. Craig developed the Steward retrofit kit, making tractors operate autonomously. It eases the workload for farmers. B...

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NH management changes in South America

New Holland Agriculture announces changes in its management in South America. Paulo Máximo (left) is the new Commercial Marketing Director for the region, taking over the position of Gustavo Taniguchi, who leaves the company. New Holland Agriculture South America, will now be led by Flavio Mazetto. ...

Reinhold Claas passed away

Reinhold Claas, a long-standing member of the Shareholders Committee and Supervisory Board of the Claas Group, passed away on 7 June 2022 at the age of 91. Reinhold Claas was the third child of company founder August Claas and wife Paula Claas. Together with his brother Helmut Claas, he played a siz...

Guido Boerkamp leading Apollo Off-Highway Tyres

Apollo Tyres has appointed Guido Boerkamp as the new director of its Off-Highway Tyres (OHT) division. He succeeds Ruud Nijland who is retiring after over a decade at the company in this position. Boerkamp brings 27 years of OHT experience, having first joined the company (then known as Vredestein) ...

Ole Klose joins Krone executive board

A strong growth in all business segments has led the Krone group to expand its executive board as of 1 April 2022. New member is CFO Ole Klose. The decision was taken by the supervisory board and its chair Bernard Krone who says it will strengthen the viable group structures as the family business c...

David Sagehorn joins AGCO Board of Directors

AGCO announces the election of David Sagehorn to its Board of Directors, effective March 15. Sagehorn succeeds George Benson, who will retire as of April 28. “We are pleased to have Dave join our Board,” said Eric Hansotia, Chairman, President and CEO of AGCO Corporation. “His wealth of knowledge, f...

Marco Lombardi head of marketing Case IH and Steyr

Mr Lombardi joined CNH Industrial in 2007, taking up his first position in the UK. Since then he has gained considerable experience within the business. During the past 14 years he has held positions in various marketing and sales departments in the UK and Italy, before being appointed to his new ro...

“Mister Amazone” Dr. Heinz Dreyer turns 90

Prof. h.c. Heinz Dreyer, Managing Director of Amazonen-Werke for many years, celebrated his 90th birthday on 19th February. He helped to build up the company as the third generation of the Dreyer families involved and played a significant role in developing it into the global agricultural machinery ...

Changing of the guards at Väderstad

Väderstad welcomes both a new CEO and a new chairman of the board as of February. Henrik Gilstring, grandchild to Väderstad’s founder Rune Stark, takes over as new CEO after Mats Båverud. At the same time, Mikael Jonson steps into the role as new chairman of the board. The change of CEO’s has been c...

Tom Hellström representative for Einböck in Scandinavia

Due to a growing demand for Einböck machinery in Scandinavia and the objective to get closer to  customers and dealers, the Austrian company appointed Tom Hellström. He is the new sales representative, responsible for Finland, Sweden and Norway. Tom Hellström will take over the responsibility for ma...

Volker Claas passes away

Volker Claas, a long-standing member of the CLAAS Group Shareholders’ Committee, has passed away following a serious illness at the age of 57. Volker Claas, son of Reinhold Claas, is the grandson of the company founder August Claas. He served on the Supervisory Board from 2000 to 2005 and on t...
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