Marktoberdorf (dpa / lby) – The Allgäu tractor manufacturer Fendt says it has come through the crisis well so far. “Fendt is doing really well,” said managing director Christoph Gröblinghoff on Friday at the press conference in Kolitzheim near Würzburg. The order books are full for the next eleven months.
The evening before, the company presented a new tractor, the best machine in the company’s history, as Gröblinghoff emphasized. Among other things, the tractor has tires that are more than two meters high, over 300 hp and a drinks cool box under the driver’s seat. Fendt wants to present an electric tractor soon and assumes that the first hydrogen tractors will be available in 2030.
According to the information, Fendt will employ 6,700 people at its German locations at the end of the year – 1,000 more than at the end of 2021. In the current year, the sales target of more than 20,000 tractors is to be achieved, which had been missed in the past two years. Sales of up to 25,000 units are targeted for 2023, said Gröblinghoff. In the case of the combine harvesters, 200 pieces would be sold in the current year. 120 million euros are to be invested in 2022, a large part in the digitization and networking of machines.
