{"id":1339008,"date":"2024-07-02T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agriland.ie\/?p=1339008"},"modified":"2024-07-02T17:31:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:31:56","slug":"watch-claas-plans-further-expansion-and-plots-course-to-autonomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lightsail.agriland.ie\/farming-news\/watch-claas-plans-further-expansion-and-plots-course-to-autonomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Claas plans further expansion and plots course to autonomy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Out on the farm, the agricultural machinery industry is usually seen in the single light of the customer and dealer, with manufacturers, such as Claas, being thought of as distant entities somewhere out there in another part of the universe, cold and unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not a situation that all manufacturers are happy with, and most would wish to keep as close to their customer base as possible, and this is certainly true of the family-owned companies on the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claas is one such company and it recently threw its doors in Germany open to Agriland<\/a><\/em>, dealers and its own staff in a bid to update the world on the current situation and its future plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Matthias Mumme, head of trade press and deputy head of group communications at Claas painted a positive picture of the company’s future<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And it is the current situation that is of concern to manufacturers although they might profess to dismiss this season’s sharp drop in sales as a blip rather than a trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like all manufacturers, the reduction in turnover is being given as 15-20%, or thereabouts, yet this is not considered a new normal by any means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his welcoming comments, Matthias Mumme was keen to explain that whatever the economic situation, the development of new products must continue and indeed, Claas did have a lot of news concerning new machines and updates to the present range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check out the video below<\/strong> from Agriland’s<\/em> recent visit to Germany to see firsthand the latest developments from Claas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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