Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) — Company Overview, News & Financial Data
Caterpillar manufactures heavy machinery for construction and mining, while promoting sustainable operations globally.
Caterpillar
Caterpillar is a global manufacturer of heavy machinery, equipment, and engines used across construction, resource, energy, and transportation industries. The company produces construction and mining machinery, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives. In addition to physical equipment manufacturing, it provides customer financing and insurance services through its financial products segment. Caterpillar operates a global dealer network that provides parts, maintenance, and equipment rentals. Through subsidiary brands such as Progress Rail, Solar Turbines, Perkins, and Cat Financial, the company delivers heavy equipment and energy solutions worldwide.
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Operations
Products and/or services of Caterpillar
- Construction Machinery: Manufacturing of heavy excavators, wheel loaders, backhoes, motor graders, track-type tractors, and compact construction equipment serving global infrastructure, residential, non-residential, and forestry markets with extensive attachments and machine controls.
- Resource Industries Machinery: Production of large mining equipment, including rotary drills, electric rope shovels, hydraulic mining shovels, draglines, wheel tractor-scrapers, and autonomous off-highway mining trucks used in surface and underground mining operations globally.
- Energy & Transportation Engines: Engineering of off-highway diesel and natural gas reciprocating engines, generator sets, and marine propulsion systems used in industrial power generation, oil and gas extraction, and marine transport applications.
- Industrial Gas Turbines: Manufacturing, installation, and maintenance of industrial gas turbines and high-efficiency gas compressor sets utilized in natural gas pipeline transmission, gas compression, crude oil pumping, and distributed power generation facilities worldwide.
- Rail & Locomotive Equipment: Production of heavy-haul freight and passenger diesel-electric locomotives, rail infrastructure products, maintenance-of-way equipment, signaling systems, and remanufactured rail components for transit networks across global transportation corridors.
- Financial Services: Provision of retail financing, wholesale financing, commercial equipment leases, and insurance solutions to enable commercial customers and independent dealers to purchase or lease heavy machinery, power systems, and specialized equipment.
Caterpillar executive team
- Joseph E. CreedChairman & CEO
- Christine M. PambianchiChief Human Resources Officer
- Denise C. JohnsonGroup President of Resource Industries
- Bob De LangeGroup President of Services, Distribution & Digital
- Kyle J. EpleyChief Financial Officer
- William E. SchauppVP & Chief Accounting Officer
- Jaime MineartSenior VP & CTO
- Jamie L. EngstromSenior VP & Chief Information Officer
- Alex KapperVice President of Investor Relations
- Derek R. OwensChief Legal Officer & General Counsel