125 New Valtra’s to China

08.08.2003

Valtra strongly participating on the development of China’s agriculture

Valtra Inc.’s long-span and determined work in China has brought a big order to Valtra again. During next fall Valtra will deliver 125 big farm tractors to China. Majority of these tractors are Valtra HiTech –models with 200 horsepower. The tractors will be made at Suolahti factory in Finland. These Valtra’s are very modern and big tractors at China’s agriculture and they suite very well for modern agriculture.

With this new order the fleet of big Valtra tractors in China will reach 600 units. This can be seen as an excellent achievement from the company that has been on the demanding Chinese market only for three years. This order will strengthen Valtra’s position in the market of over 120 horsepower tractors. This deal will also include large training package as in previous deals. Valtra’s training partner is this time Chinese Academy for Agricultural Machinery.

Tractors will be delivered to Urumuq, where they will be used at farm projects in the regions of Yili Huocheng and Kuitun Chenpaiz.

China is very important and fast growing market area for Valtra. Customer service and unique solutions are very important on this market. Valtra has offices in Beijing, Urumuq and Luoyang.

Valtra Inc.

More information:
Ilkka Hakala, managing director
+358 400 824696

Arto Tiitinen, marketing director
+358 400 343290

Pictures from Valtra image bank: www.valtra.com => Image Bank

Valtra is the leading tractor manufacturer in the Nordic countries. The Valtra tractors are the second popular tractors in Latin America, and they are sold in over 90 countries. The net sales was in 2002 over 762 million euros, and the production was over 18,000 tractors. Valtra has approximately 2 430 employees. Valtra is part of KONE Corporation. Annual net sales of KONE was EUR 5.5 billion in 2002, and KONE employs nearly 36,000 people worldwide. KONE´s main business areas are elevators and escalators and materials handling.

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