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Case Construction Equipment (stylized as CASE Construction Equipment, commonly referred to as simply Case) is an American manufacturer of construction machinery. Along with
CASE IH Case IH is an American agricultural machinery manufacturer. It was created in 1985 when Tenneco bought selected assets of the agricultural division from International Harvester and merged it into its J.I. Case Company (IH then became Navistar).T ...
, Case Construction Equipment is a brand of CNH. Case produces construction equipment including excavators, motor graders,
wheel loader A loader is a heavy equipment machine used in construction to move or load materials such as soil, rock, sand, demolition debris, etc. into or onto another type of machinery (such as a dump truck, conveyor belt, feed-hopper, or railroad car) ...
s, vibratory compaction rollers,
crawler dozer A bulldozer or dozer (also called a crawler) is a large, motorized machine equipped with a metal blade to the front for pushing material: soil, sand, snow, rubble, or rock during construction work. It travels most commonly on continuous tracks ...
s,
skid steer A skid loader, skid-steer loader, SSLs or skidsteer is a small, rigid-frame, engine-powered machine with lift arms that can attach to a wide variety of buckets and other labor-saving tools or attachments. Skid-steer loaders are typically four-whee ...
s, and compact track loaders.


Early history

The origins of Case date to 1842, when Jerome Increase Case (born in 1819) created ''Racine Threshing Machine Works'' in Racine, Wisconsin. The company produced its first portable steam engine in 1876, which is now on display at the
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. In 1957 Case made the ''320 Construction King''
backhoe loader A backhoe loader, also called a loader backhoe, loader excavator, digger in layman's terms, or colloquially shortened to backhoe within the industry, is a heavy equipment vehicle that consists of a tractor-like unit fitted with a loader-style s ...
. Since 1969 Case has manufactured
skid steer A skid loader, skid-steer loader, SSLs or skidsteer is a small, rigid-frame, engine-powered machine with lift arms that can attach to a wide variety of buckets and other labor-saving tools or attachments. Skid-steer loaders are typically four-whee ...
s, starting in Burlington, Iowa and later moving production to Wichita.


Recent history

The company evolved into the
Case Corporation The Case Corporation was a manufacturer of agricultural machinery and construction equipment. Founded, in 1842, by Jerome Increase Case as the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company, it operated under that name for most of a century. For anot ...
, which merged with New Holland in 1999 to become CNH Global which in 2011 became CNH Industrial. * 2005: Case made its 500,000th
backhoe loader A backhoe loader, also called a loader backhoe, loader excavator, digger in layman's terms, or colloquially shortened to backhoe within the industry, is a heavy equipment vehicle that consists of a tractor-like unit fitted with a loader-style s ...
and in 2010 made its 250,000th skid steer loader. * 2016: Case released the new G-Series
wheel loader A loader is a heavy equipment machine used in construction to move or load materials such as soil, rock, sand, demolition debris, etc. into or onto another type of machinery (such as a dump truck, conveyor belt, feed-hopper, or railroad car) ...
lineup consisting of seven new models from 521G thru 1121G. * 2017: In its 175th year in business, Case announced its facility in Wichita produced its 300,000th skid-steer loader. * 2017: At Conexpo-Con/Agg 2017 Case released the CX750D excavator. As of May 2017, according to
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, Case "sells a full line of construction equipment around the world, including the number one loader/backhoes, excavators, motor graders, wheel loaders, vibratory compaction rollers, crawler dozers, skid steers, compact track loaders and rough-terrain forklifts."


Products

Case was the first company to introduce the factory-integrated
backhoe loader A backhoe loader, also called a loader backhoe, loader excavator, digger in layman's terms, or colloquially shortened to backhoe within the industry, is a heavy equipment vehicle that consists of a tractor-like unit fitted with a loader-style s ...
. In February 2017, the firm released an upgraded backhoe loader in Europe, which meets the Stage IV/Tier 4 Final emissions regulations. In 2017, Case introduced the CX750D Excavator, the 'largest and most powerful machine in the CASE excavator line' according to Construction Equipment Guide. Case also produces mini excavators. Case builds and sells skid-steer loaders, used on construction sites. Such loaders are small in size and engine powered with lift arms, and fitted with labor-saving tools. Case skid-steer loaders are manufactured in Wichita, Kansas. Case wheel loaders are used in construction and earthmoving, as well as on the farm, especially in dairies and feedlots where it is necessary to move of large amounts of material.


See also

*
Case IH Case IH is an American agricultural machinery manufacturer. It was created in 1985 when Tenneco bought selected assets of the agricultural division from International Harvester and merged it into its J.I. Case Company (IH then became Navistar).T ...
is CNH Industrial's global provider of agricultural equipment


References


External links


CASE website

CASE VIC website
{{Automotive industry in the United States CNH Industrial Construction equipment manufacturers of the United States Companies based in Racine, Wisconsin