VIDEO: How Caterpillar dominates

MINING.com Editor | January 29, 2013 | 4:23 pm China Latin America 

A cool animated video (no embed available) illustrates the high perch Caterpillar has built itself above the resource and construction equipment sector.

Some highlights from the Bloomberg video are the following:

  • Caterpillar has doubled in size every 10 years
  • Since its inception in 1925, CAT has posted only 6 years of annual loses
  • CAT’s largest machine, the 8750 Dragline, is longer than a football field and costs roughly US$150 million
  • A CAT engine supplied power to the 1969 Apollo 11 moon mission and NASA has recently asked the company to help build a landing strip and a remote control lunar truck

View the video here>>

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