43 Facts About Caterpillar CS-533E

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Caterpillar CS-533E Inc is an American Fortune 500 corporation and the world's largest construction-equipment manufacturer.

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In 2018, Caterpillar CS-533E was ranked number 65 on the Fortune 500 list and number 238 on the Global Fortune 500 list.

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Caterpillar CS-533E stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

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Caterpillar CS-533E replaced the wheels on a 40 horsepower Holt steamer, No 77, with a set of wooden tracks bolted to chains.

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Caterpillar CS-533E's situation worsened when artillery tractors were returned from Europe, depressing prices for new equipment and Holt's unsold inventory of military tractors.

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Caterpillar CS-533E struggled with the transition from wartime boom to peacetime bust.

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Caterpillar CS-533E ranked 44th among United States corporations in the value of wartime military production contracts.

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In 2018, Caterpillar CS-533E was in the process of restructuring, closing a demonstration center in Panama and an engine-manufacturing facility in Illinois.

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Caterpillar CS-533E built its first Russian facility in the town of Tosno, located near St Petersburg, Russia.

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Caterpillar CS-533E has been manufacturing machines, engines, and generator sets in India, as well.

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Caterpillar CS-533E has three facilities in India, which are in Tamil Nadu and Maharastra .

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Caterpillar CS-533E has a list of some 400 products for purchase through its dealer network.

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Caterpillar CS-533E machinery is used in the construction, road-building, mining, forestry, energy, transportation, and material-handling industries.

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Caterpillar CS-533E began selling a line of on-road trucks in 2011, the Cat CT660, a Class 8 vocational truck.

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Portion of Caterpillar CS-533E's business is in the manufacturing of diesel and natural gas engines and gas turbines which, in addition to their use in the company's own vehicles, are used as the prime movers in locomotives, semi trucks, marine vessels, and ships, as well as providing the power source for peak-load power plants and emergency generators.

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Caterpillar CS-533E decreased emissions and noise the next year in the 3126B version of the engine, and improved emissions further in 2002 with the 3126E which had an improved high-pressure oil pump and improved electronics.

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In 2003 Caterpillar CS-533E started selling a new version of this engine called the C-7 to meet increased United States emission standards that came into effect in 2004; it had the same overall design as the 3126 version, but with improved fuel injectors and electronics which included its new Advanced Combustion Emissions Reduction Technology system.

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In 2007, as ultra-low-sulfur diesel became required in North America, Caterpillar CS-533E updated the C7 to use common rail fuel injectors and improved ACERT electronics.

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In 1998 Caterpillar CS-533E purchased Perkins Engines of Peterborough, England, a maker of small diesel and gasoline engines.

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In June 2008, Caterpillar announced it would be exiting the on-highway diesel engine market in the United States before updated 2010 U S Environmental Protection Agency emission standards took effect, as costly changes to the engines, which only constituted a small percentage of Caterpillar's total engine sales, would be likely.

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In October 2010, Caterpillar CS-533E announced it would buy German engine-manufacturer MWM GmbH from 3i for $810 million.

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The poor network security of the Caterpillar CS-533E engines put the United States' submarine force at risk for cyberattack.

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In particular, the IDF Caterpillar CS-533E D9 was involved in an incident in 2003, in which the American activist Rachel Corrie was killed by a bulldozer.

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In 2014 Presbyterian Church sold its shares in Caterpillar CS-533E citing the use of Caterpillar CS-533E bulldozers involved in demolition and surveillance activities in the West Bank.

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Caterpillar CS-533E introduced the Challenger range of agricultural tractors as the result of several development programs over a long period of time.

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Claas and Caterpillar CS-533E formed a joint venture, Claas Omaha, to build combine harvesters in Omaha, Nebraska, USA under the CAT brand.

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Also in 2002, Caterpillar CS-533E sold the Challenger tracked tractor business to AGCO and licensed the use of the Challenger and CAT names and livery to them.

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Caterpillar CS-533E provides financing and insurance to customers via its worldwide dealer network and generates income through the licensing of the Caterpillar CS-533E and CAT trademarks and logos.

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Caterpillar CS-533E sells the right to manufacture, market, and sell products bearing the Cat trademark to licensees worldwide.

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Caterpillar CS-533E products are distributed to end-users in nearly 200 countries through Caterpillar CS-533E's worldwide network of 220 dealers.

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Caterpillar CS-533E's dealers are independently owned and operated businesses with exclusive geographical territories.

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Caterpillar CS-533E has a corporate governance structure where the chairman of the board acts as chief executive officer .

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In 2020, it was reported that Caterpillar CS-533E was planning to cut 700 jobs at its Northern Ireland operations.

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Caterpillar CS-533E came close to bankruptcy in the early 1980s, at one point losing almost US$1 million per day due to a sharp downturn in product demand as competition with Japanese rival Komatsu increased.

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Rather than continuing to fight the United Auto Workers, Caterpillar CS-533E chose to make itself less vulnerable to the traditional bargaining tactics of organized labor.

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Caterpillar CS-533E opened these new facilities in Clayton and Sanford, North Carolina; Greenville, South Carolina; Corinth, Mississippi; Dyersburg, Tennessee; Griffin and LaGrange, Georgia; Seguin, Texas; and North Little Rock, Arkansas.

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Caterpillar CS-533E divisions have won Illinois Governor's Pollution Prevention Awards every year since 1997.

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Caterpillar CS-533E's Cast Metals Organization in Mapleton worked with the American Foundry Society to help produce a rule to reduce hazardous waste in scrap metal that meet strict quality requirements, and allow foundries to continue recycling certain types of scrap and maintain a competitive cost structure.

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In 2005, Caterpillar donated $12 million to The Nature Conservancy in a joint effort to protect and preserve river systems in Brazil, U S A, and China.

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Caterpillar CS-533E has, for many years, been a member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development based in Geneva, Switzerland and has been listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index each year since 2001.

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Caterpillar CS-533E was successful in lobbying for an extension of deadlines they considered too severe.

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Caterpillar CS-533E has faced criticism for this perceived "bullying", especially in cases where the likelihood of confusion is low.

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In 2014, Caterpillar CS-533E paid $46M to settle claims that one of its engines caused a fiery explosion on a ship owned by Bender Shipbuilding and Repair Company Inc In 2016 Caterpillar CS-533E paid $60M to settle claims that its bus engines were prone to breakdowns and fires.

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