Claas Agricultural Machinery Private Limited

General information

CLAAS is a family business founded in 1913 and is one of the world's leading manufacturers of agricultural machinery. The company, with corporate headquarters in Harsewinkel, Germany, is the European market leader in combine harvesters. CLAAS is the world leader in another large product group, that of self-propelled forage harvesters. CLAAS is also a top performer in agricultural technology worldwide, with its tractors, agricultural balers and grassland harvesting machinery. The CLAAS product portfolio also includes state-of-the-art farming information technology.

As the first western combine manufacturer, CLAAS has been located in India since 1991 with a factory for manufacturing machines designed to match the local harvest conditions. The headquarters are based in Faridabad and the state of the art manufacturing facility is located near Chandigarh in Punjab.

CLAAS in India is the market leader and the manufacturers of the popular CROP TIGER range of combine harvesters in both track and wheel versions – the CROP TIGER 30 and CROP TIGER 40 are wheel mounted machines whereas CROP TIGER 30 TERRA TRAC and CROP TIGER 40 TERRA TRAC are track mounted machines. Some machines are also imported from overseas plants of CLAAS, namely MARKANT 55 Square Baler, walk-behind type PADDY PANTHER 14 and Ride-on type PADDY PANTHER 26 Rice Trans-planter. The company also has 63 dealers that provide sales, service and parts support for machines in India and other SAARC countries.