News 2011

Originally announced at Agritechnica 2009, the new XERION 4500 and XERION 5000 have been brought fully to market, and top off the CLAAS High Horsepower tractor range.

A record number of eighteen apprentices have joined the CLAAS Agricultural Technician Apprenticeship based at Barony College near Dumfries, now into its fourth successful year.  The apprentices come from all over Scotland, the north of England and for the first time Ireland.

CLAAS will reorganise its activities on the Austrian agricultural machinery market. On 1 October 2011, the company is opening a new CLAAS Regional Centre in Stockerau, north-west of Vienna. The new centre has good transport links and is easily accessible to all of our customers in the agricultural sector.

Romania has become a much more important player in the European agricultural sector and is today the fourth largest market in Europe, based on the country's usable agricultural area. An increasing number of farmers and farm contractors are opting for CLAAS machinery in the central European state. Now, CLAAS has responded to the wishes of its Romanian customers by setting up a CLAAS Regional Center Romania and an exclusive dealership structure. The family-owned company CLAAS has thus clearly signalled its belief in the importance of the Romanian market and its positive economic development.