Caterpillar

Caterpillar Inc., can be an American corporation which designs, produces, markets and sells machines and engines and sells financial products and insurance to clients via a global dealer network.

With more than US$70 billion in assets, Caterpillar was rated number one in its business and number 44 complete in the 2009 Fortune 500.

Caterpillar stock is a part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

In 1986, the firm reorganized itself as a Delaware corporation under the name, Caterpillar Inc. Caterpillar's main offices are located in Peoria, Illinois, United States.

Caterpillar machines is identifiable by its brand "Caterpillar Yellow" livery and the "CAT" emblem.

1905 - Bay Area, California

A Holt steam traction motor functions in the building of a part of San Francisco's cable car system.

San Francisco's celebrated cable car program got its start in 1873. Within the following several decades, changes were made for the device and new lines were added. Photographs taken in 1905 present Holt Steam Traction Motor #37 getting used to assist place new cable. This is actually the first recorded case of our devices used on the public works building job.

1906 - Bay Area, California

A Holt steam traction motor can be used during recovery efforts following the Bay Area Earthquake.

Among the very major earthquakes of all time the Bay Area quake ranks. Photographs taken after the quake and subsequent fire present Holt Steam Traction Motor #37 assisting with the clean-up. This is the first known case of our devices in value to assist in disaster recovery.

1908 1913 - California

Holt's tracktype tractors get exposure to the L. A. Aqueduct Endeavor.

Twentyseven of the first 100 Holt Caterpillar tracktype tractors went to focus on the L. A. Aqueduct Endeavor, which provided a great proving ground for all these machines. Due to contract deadlines, Holt's engineers were compelled to immediately find options to mechanical difficulties.

1914 1918 - Europe

Holt's tracktype tractors perform a support function in World War I.

These authorities, nevertheless, sent the tractors right to the battlefront where the armed forces place them all to work hauling artillery and supplies.

These tractors also offered members of the British army with all the inspiration required to create the tank.

The Holt Manufacturing Company had benefits over other tractor companies as a result of connection it had created using the U.S. Army Ordnance Department. Actually, bids from the Ordnance section required requirements of the "Caterpillar kind." Holt enlarged manufacturing plants to adapt creation of the big quantities of tractors the authorities demanded. Over 5,000 Holt tractors were created for the America and Allied authorities throughout World War I.

A Holt 5-Ton Caterpillar Tractor climbs Pikes Peak.

1921 1922 - Europe

May 31June 9, 1928 - America to Australia

The Southern Cross is pulled by a Caterpillar Sixty Tractor towards the runway in Oakland, California

, to begin the first ever transPacific flight.

A couple of years after that first transPacific flight with many flight records for their name, Sir Smith and also the Southern Cross returned to Oakland for a party. This time, a petrol-powered Caterpillar Model Fifteen Tractor handled the airplane in the airport.

1929

The Soviet Grain Trust buys 2,050 Caterpillar machines.

The Soviet Grain Trust farming business bought 300 Caterpillar tractors, 1 and 750 Holt Caterpillar joined harvesters to be used on its big farm cooperatives. This sale helped to maintain Caterpillar's factories active throughout the Great Depression.

1930 1939 - Belgium

Caterpillar tractors help assemble the King Albert Canal.

A dozen of the initial 25 Caterpillar Diesel Sixty Tractors (constructed during 1931and 1932) worked with this building job.

1931 1936 - Arizona and NV

Caterpillar tracktype tractors help assemble the Hoover Dam.

Five Caterpillar Diesel Sixty Tractors focus on the Mississippi Levee building job.

He enjoyed the functionality of the device so much, that he instantly ordered four more.

1933 1937 - Bay Area, California

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Golden Gate Bridge.

1933 1943 - Oregon

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Bonneville Dam.

For each one of the rival's tractors in use to the Bonneville Dam, contractors employed 19 Caterpillar tractors.

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Fort Peck Dam.

As all other makes combined twenty one times as many Caterpillar machines were at work in the Fort Peck Dam.

1934 1942 - Washington

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Grand Coulee Dam.

1935 1938 - Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Delaware & Chesapeake Canal.

100 percent of the tractors used to assemble the Delmarva Canal shown the Caterpillar brand.

1935 1938 - Ohio

This project required the move of highways and several railroad lines and also the building of 14 dams. Contractors utilized 164 Caterpillar machines and many of Caterpillar engines to the job.

Caterpillar machines clean up debris following a devastating earthquake hits Quetta, India.

Following the authorities introduced Caterpillar machines, work advanced fairly fast, and new structures were quickly under development.

A rescue operation is aided by several Caterpillar machines in the Moose River Mine.

1937 - Washington

1937 - 1980

Caterpillar machines work to construct the Highway that'll link North and South America.

Caterpillar machines in big fleets will work in the Haifa-Baghdad Highway, a crucial connection between the Mediterranean and also the Persian Gulf.

Caterpillar products serves in the Aftermath and Midway Island Air Bases.

Three Caterpillar diesel electric sets were being used on every island powering the refrigeration units, lights and radio gear for the Pan American Airline bases. Caterpillar tractors also hauled airplanes and equipment, put up windmills and done other odd jobs across the islands.

Caterpillar machines and engines help assemble the fairgrounds and structures for the 1939 World's Fair.

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

Caterpillar assembled 172 out of the 218 tracktype tractors being used in the building of the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Sepulveda Dam.

1939 - California

Nine Caterpillar tractors perform all the landscaping and leveling on Treasure Island to organize it for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.

1939 - Netherlands, Holland

Fortyfive Caterpillar tractors focus on the Zuider Zee Reclamation Project.

1941 1945

Caterpillar supplies support for the armed forces during WWII.

When war came to the America in December 1941, the America government requested Caterpillar to raise production levels greater compared to the company had actually attained before. With the aid of its own workers, Caterpillar met and exceeded the process. From 1942 to 1945, on occupations within the foundry and production lines Caterpillar managed seven days per week, doubled its work force, put women, educated, made items and sponsored enlisted men and constructed about 51, 000 tracktype tractors for the armed forces.

1942 - Alaska

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Alaskan Highway.

A land route joining the continental U. S. to AK was assembled from 1942 to 1943. The AKn Highway, initially called the Alcan Highway, stretched from Dawson's Creek, BC, to Fairbanks, AK - a length of around 1,600 miles. Because the main road was seen as a crucial military supply route, U.S. Army Engineers and civilian contractors constructed the main road as a joint undertaking to be able to hasten the main road's building. Over 70% of the apparatus employed on this particular task during its first building displayed the Caterpillar brand. Now, the Alaskan Highway continues to be the sole road that joins Alaska with the remainder of the continental United States and the road methods of Canada.

1942 1944 - Canada

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Canol Pipeline.

The Canol Pipeline was the first longdistance oil pipeline system built within the Arctic area of North America. The project was started through the first days of WWII once the military scenario seemed critical. Finished in 1944 and started in 1942, the 620mile pipeline route was abandoned in 1945. Plagued with functioning difficulties, the Canol Pipeline nevertheless demonstrated that building jobs with this magnitude could succeed despite the problems supplied from the Arctic atmosphere.

1944 1956 - U.S.

Caterpillar machines help build more than 70,000 miles of highways through the entire U.S..

1946 - Hawaii

Caterpillar machines support cleanup efforts after the Hilo Tidal Wave disaster.

1946 1956 - India

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Hirakud Dam.

Tractors and caterpillar engines focus on the Ottawa River Hydro-electric Project.

1947-1985 - France

Caterpillar machines help assemble various periods of the Rhone River Task.

1948 1953 - Montana

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Hungry Horse Dam.

1948 1962 - South Dakota

Twenty Caterpillar D9 Tractors were ordered to be used in the building of the Oahe Dam.

1948 1963 - India

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Bhakra Dam.

Contractors employed more than one hundred Caterpillar - assembled diesel electric sets and machines throughout the building of the Bhakra Dam - amounting to around onethird of the products in use on the job.

1948-present - South Dakota

Caterpillar machines have been used across the building site of the Crazy Horse Monument.

The monument stays under development.

1949 - Ecuador

1949 1974 - Australia

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Snowy Mountains HydroElectric Scheme project.

The Snowy Mountains HydroElectric Scheme was clearly one of the biggest engineering projects ever undertaken. Several hundred Caterpillar machines were employed only about the preliminary work only.

1950 1954 - Canada

Caterpillar machines help assemble Labrador Railway and the Quebec North Shore.

Contractors with this job desired to use just Caterpillar equipment to the building of the railroad. By the end-of 1951, 136 Caterpillar machines were being used to the job.

1951-1952 - Greenland

More than 300 Caterpillar tracktype tractors, motor graders, and wheel tractors together with over 100 Caterpillar diesel-electric sets were being used in the Thule foundation.

1951 1953 - Venezuela

Caterpillar machines help assemble the 10.5mile-long Autopista superhighway through the Andes Mountains.

1952 - Ceylon

Over one hundred Caterpillar machines work with the Gal Oya Valley Irrigation and Energy Task.

Sixtyseven D8 Tractors were one of the Caterpillar machines used to build a dam and clear 300, 000 acres.

1953 - Netherlands and England, Holland

1953 - India

Government authorities buy 93 new Caterpillar machines for a street improvement job in India.

1953-1954 - Sweden

Contractors use motor graders and only Caterpillar tractors throughout building of the Autostradan freeway.

1954 1959 - America and Canada

Caterpillar machines help assemble the St. Lawrence Seaway.

In a combined fiveyear effort, the United States and Canada built a 2,343-mile water route in the Atlantic Ocean to Duluth, MN.

1954 - Uganda

Caterpillar machines help assemble the hydro-electric project and dam at Owens Falls on the Victoria Nile.

1955-1956 - Antarctica

Caterpillar provides specially designed equipment for the armed forces for Operation Deep Freeze I.

The explanation for the initial assignment proved to be scientific cooperation between 40 countries to undertake studies of our planet's atmosphere. The ODF missions create the American research stations in Antarctica and held the stations furnished.

For ODF I, Caterpillar provided 16 diesel-electric sets and 24 tracktype tractors specifically constructed to survive continuous temperatures of 65 degrees below zero. Actually, Caterpillar engineers especially developed LowGround-Pressure (LGP) tractors to be used in Antarctica. These types of engines and devices were being used twenty-four hours a day.

For the very first several years, Caterpillar tracktype tractors were the sole crawlers in Antarctica, and today Caterpillar items are still supporting the stations.

1955 1961 - France

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Dam to the Durance River.

1955 - U.S.

Caterpillar machines support restoration efforts in the East Coast following Hurricane Diane.

Caterpillar machines helped to clean-up debris, restore communications, reconstruct washedout highways and railroads, and redirect streams back to their own original stations.

1955 1957 - California

Thirtyseven Caterpillar machines help assemble the Dublin Canyon Freeway.

1956-1957 - California

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Monticello Dam and Reservoir.

The whole city of Monticello (including its graveyard) must be relocated.

1956 1959 - Rhodesia

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Kariba Gorge Hydro-electric Project.

All the contractors on this particular task were extensive Caterpillar merchandise users.

1956 - BC, Canada

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Highway

in Yoho National Park.

1956-1957 - Antarctica

Caterpillar provides added gear for the armed forces for Operation Deep Freeze II.

Caterpillar machines helped assemble bases and roads, to be able to make drinking water hauled dozed snow, kept trails and airstrips, materials, and took snow to melting models. Caterpillar electric sets supplied the snow melting system for drinking water and communication apparatus, lights, kitchens, radar and ground control approach apparatus, and also all the ability for heat.

Due to the significance of Caterpillar's efforts with respect to the job, Rear Admiral George J. Dufek, Commander of ODF, came to Peoria to examine a part of the despatch of Cat gear and participated in many special activities arranged for the event. The City of Peoria organized an unique show of Caterpillar equipment assembled for the job. A C-124 Globemaster cargo plane arrived to Peoria to get a shipment headed for Antarctica plus a special service was held in the Peoria airport to christen the airplane as "The City of Peoria." Competition essays created by other Peoria and local school children - related things were put in time capsule produced from a Caterpillar D8 cylinder. This time capsule was buried in the South Pole with all the education it was to be opened within the year 2000.

1956 - Canada

Caterpillar machines help assemble the TransCanada Pipeline.

Reportedly, Caterpillar assembled all of the brand new machines ordered for your job. One purchase in 1957 was for 23 Caterpillar diesel engines and 51 Caterpillar tractors.

1956 1972 - USA

Contractors use Caterpillar machines to construct the National Interstate Highway System.

It began as project but grown to 42, 800 miles. Overall cost is about $130 billion.

1957 1961 - Sudan, Africa

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Managil Irrigation Project.

1957 - Hawaii

1957 1958 - Antarctica

Caterpillar provides added gear for the armed forces for Operation Deep Freeze III.

1957 - Germany

Caterpillar machines help assemble a portion of the brand-new Autobahn running between Nurnberg and Frankfort.

1957 1959 - Montana

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Noxon Rapids Hydroelectric Project.

Caterpillar machines help assemble the World's Fair at Brussels.

Caterpillar products worked round the clock to organize the 500acre site and approaching highways for the World's Fair.

1958 - Greenland

1958 - Antarctica

Two Caterpillar D9 Tractors aided the U.S. Navy finish the very first permanent airstrip to the Antarctica continent.

1958 1971 - Oregon

Caterpillar machines help assemble the John Day Dam.

1959 1965 - Surinam, South America

Twentyfive Caterpillar machines assemble access roads for the building of the Brokopondo Development hydro-electric project.

1959 - Africa

Caterpillar machines help assemble a railway via an African jungle to start mining possibilities within the area.

Several machines were used afterwards to mine manganese in the area.

1959 - Montana

1959 1960 - Antarctica

Military authorities saw Caterpillar to examine additional gear prepared for dispatch, including to discuss future demands for the Operation Deep Freeze.

1959 1968 - Canada

Caterpillar machines help assemble the South Saskatchewan Dam.

1960 - California

A few Caterpillar machines support the Cold weather Olympic Games in Squaw Valley, California.

1961 1966 - Kobe, Japan

Nine Caterpillar machines take part in the attempt to push part of the mountain into the ocean as part of the Kobe Bay Reclamation Project.

1961 1967 - Pakistan

A lot more than 500 Caterpillar machines help assemble the Mangla Dam.

1961 1968 - California

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Oroville Dam, among the dams within the California Water Plan Project.

1961 1977 - Brazil

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Urubupunga Hydro-electric Complex.

The Urubupunga Hydro-electric Complex comprises two dams - the Ilha Solteira and the Jupia. Around 150 Caterpillar machines helped assemble this complex.

1962 1977 - India and Pakistan

A lot more than 450 Caterpillar machines work with one of earth's biggest earthmoving jobs - the Indus River Basin Project.

The Indus River Basin Project also contained the Tarbela and Mangla Dams.

Caterpillar machines would be the sole machines in use to the building of the La Paloma Dam.

1963 1964 - Panama

A few Caterpillar machines help widen parts of the Panama Canal.

1963 - U.S.

Around 800 Caterpillar machines help assemble the 2,600mile-long New YorkHouston Pipeline.

1963 1967 - California

1963 1968 - BC, Canada

1963 1970 - New Zealand

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Manapouri Hydro-electric Project.

1963 1972 - Thailand

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Sirikit Dam.

1963 1978 - Venezuela

1963 1993 - South Africa

More Than 300 items of Caterpillar equipment will work in the Orange River Scheme project.

1964 - U.S.

Caterpillar machines are utilized to install the coast - to - coast subterranean telephone cable.

It took contractors five years to accomplish the 4,000mile cablelaying job.

1964 - U.S.

Following a flood covers regions of California, Oregon and Washington caterpillar machines help restoration efforts.

1964 1968 - Nigeria

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Kainji Dam.

1964 1965 - New York

100s of Caterpillar machines help assemble the fairgrounds, buildings and highway improvements for the 1964 1965 World's Fair.

1964 1965 - U.S.

Caterpillar machines helped assemble a few hundred launch web sites for the Minuteman Missile System.

The Minuteman Missile System had around 1000 missile web sites in South Dakota, Missouri, North Dokota, WY and Montana and Caterpillar machines helped within the building of a huge selection of the launching sites. Contractors also installed more than 150 Caterpillar diesel-electric sets as standby power units for many of the web sites.

1965 - California

Caterpillar machines work with the California Water Plan Project.

As well as focusing on the dams, Caterpillar machines helped to re-locate railroad tracks and roads and assemble linking canals, waterways, lakes, tunnels and pipelines.

1965 - California

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Castaic Complex's expressway and water system.

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Bay d-Espoir Hydro-electric Project.

1965 - Switzerland

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Mattmark Dam.

1965 1967 - Canada

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Duncan Dam.

1965 1968 - BC, Canada

1965 1968 - Australia

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Blowering Dam.

The Blowering Dam was the next biggest of the as part of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme 10 dams built project.

1966 - Philippines

Fifty Caterpillar machines help assemble the Angat Dam.

1966 1967 - Germany, & Italy, Austria

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Transalpine Pipeline.

1966 1968 - Grenoble, France

Caterpillar machines help the folks of Grenoble get ready for the 1968 Winter Olympic Games.

Caterpillar machines re-shaped mountain slopes, improved and built roads, and prepared building websites.

1966 1973 - NYC, Ny

Caterpillar machines are employed in the building of the Entire World Trade Center complex.

As well as the Caterpillar machines used in the building period of the World Trade Center complex, Caterpillar engines were installed to supply an electrical source for the complex.

Caterpillar machines are getting used on a building job that'll lead to a 117mile long highway.

Caterpillar machines work in the building of the Kettle Rapids Station piece of the Nelson River Power Project.

1967 - Russia and Iran

Caterpillar machines help construct 600mile long pipeline running through Russia and Iran.

Contractors ordered 54 new Caterpillar machines which were put into the Caterpillar fleets already at the office on the 42inch pipeline project.

1967 - BC, Canada

Thirty Caterpillar machines help assemble the Duncan Dam.

Caterpillar machines help together with the first important commercial generation of petroleum from the Athabasca Oil Sands.

1967 - Australia

Engines and forty four Caterpillar machines work in the building of a railroad between Mount Newman and Port Hedland.

1967 1968 - South Usa

Caterpillar machines and engines help assemble the 193mile long TransAndean pipeline.

1967 1971 - Labrador, Canada

A lot more than 400 Caterpillar machines help assemble the Churchill Falls Hydro-electric Complex.

1967 1973 - BC, Canada

Five Caterpillar electric sets and twenty two Caterpillar machines work in the building of Mica Dam.

1968 - Canada

Contractors place 222 Caterpillar machines to work creating a fresh highway from Pusan to Seoul.

1968 1976 - Pakistan

300 Caterpillar machines help assemble the Tarbela Dam.

1969 - Mississippi

Caterpillar machines help repair and cleanup efforts following Hurricane Camille.

1969 - U.S.

Caterpillar engines provided the power for every one of the NASA tracking stations and communications between your Apollo 11 spacecraft all over the world.

1969 - Pakistan

Seventyone Caterpillar engines and fifteen Caterpillar machines work with a 58mile-long highway project in Pakistan.

1969 1972 - Argentina

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Portezuelo Grande Dam.

1970 - Peru

Caterpillar machines work with numerous reconstruction projects following a serious earthquake and landslide that devastated regions of Peru.

1970 - Panama

Engines and fifty one Caterpillar machines help assemble a new 20mile expressway in Panama.

1970 1971 - Australia

1970 1972 - Ecuador

Fiftyone Caterpillar machines help assemble a 320mile-long pipeline.

1970 1972 - Alberta, Canada

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Bighorn Dam.

1971 - Brazil

Sixtytwo Caterpillar machines help assemble the Salto Osorio Dam.

1971 - Peru

Eightynine Caterpillar machines help assemble the Chira-Piura Dam.

1971 - Panama

Twentysix Caterpillar machines help assemble the Bayano Hydroelectric Project.

1971 1972 - Munich, Germany

1971 1973 - Brazil

Several Caterpillar machines help assemble a 131mile propane pipeline.

1972 - U.S.

1972 - Mexico

A total of 420 Caterpillar machines help build over 660 dams within Mexico's Strategy Benito Juarez.

1972 1977 - Alaska

Over 2,000 Caterpillar machines help assemble the TransAlaskan Pipeline.

The TransAlaskan Pipeline was among the most challenging and expensive building projects ever tried. By 2006, the pipeline had transported over 15 billion barrels of petroleum.

1972 1979 - Switzerland

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Gotthard Highway Tunnel.

Caterpillar machines perform with the initial period of the James Bay Energy Project.

At particular phases, according to reports at the time, Caterpillar assembled 80-percent of the devices contractors utilized in the job.

1973 1978 - Brazil

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Sao Simao Dam.

1973 1978 - Brazil

1974 - Alberta, Canada

Caterpillar machines continue to be in use for an assortment of jobs in the Athabasca Oil Sands.

1974 - Hong-kong

1974 1976 - Zaire, Africa

1975 - Iran

Iran buys 1,060 Caterpillar machines which is used to enhance the nation's transport and infrastructure systems.

1975 1983 - California

1975 1984 - Paraguay and Brazil

Caterpillar machines participate within the building of the Itaipu Hydroelectric Project, among the biggest hydroelectric projects ever undertaken.

1977 1983 - Paris, France

Over 200 Caterpillar machines help assemble the initial lines for the brand new Ligne a Grande Vitesse (highspeed train).

1978 1986 - Venezuela

Over 350 Caterpillar machines assist with additional building to the Guri Dam / Raul Leoni Dam.

When contractors finished the initial period of the job, they immediately started work on stages two and three, which enlarged the size of the initial dam and added one more power station. Caterpillar provided 95% of the gear to the last two building periods of the job.

1980 1985 - France

Over 70 Caterpillar machines help assemble the Grand Maison Hydro-electric Project.

1981 - California

1981 1982 - Canada & U.S.

Over 325 Caterpillar machines help assemble the Alaska Natural-gas Transportation System pipeline.

1982 - Knoxville, Tennessee

Caterpillar machines are busy planning the website for the 1982 World's Fair.

1982 1984 - San Francisco, California

Caterpillar machines work in the whole renovation of San Francisco's cable car system.

1983 1998 - Paraguay and Argentina

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Yacyreta Dam.

From the end-of 1984, 150 new Caterpillar machines were in the task and many more worked in the dam's building before its conclusion in 1998.

Over 450 Caterpillar machines help assemble the Ataturk Dam.

1985 1989 - China

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Lubuge Hydroelectric Power Project.

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Limestone Producing Program to the Manitoba Hydro project.

Caterpillar supplied 100-percent of the new earthmoving equipment to the job.

1986 1988 - Sc

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Bad Creek Dam.

1986 1993 - England & France

Over one hundred Caterpillar machines are utilized to assemble the Chunnel.

1987 1989 - Paris, France

Between 1977 and 1983, over 200 Cat machines done the very first lines for the brand new Ligne a Grande Vitesse (high-speed train) built between Lyon and Paris. The train fast reached its full ability, producing the demand for an added line from Paris to Tours and Le Mans. Building with this new 160mile rail line started in 1987, and took about a couple of years to finish. Over 80 Cat machines helped to build this new division of the line and its 21 tunnels and 300 overpasses.

1987 1994 - Osaka, Japan

Over 200 Caterpillar machines perform with the initial period of the Kansai International Airport, accounting for 70-percent of earthmoving equipment in the job.

The job demanded digging mainland soil, constructing a bridge to join the island to the mainland, creating an airport and dumping it in the bay to form a two - squaremile island. Building started in 1987 and was finished in 1994. In 2003, work started to enlarge the isle and assemble extra runways.

1989 - Sc

Caterpillar machines support recovery efforts following Hurricane Hugo.

1991 - Kuwait

Over six million barrels of petroleum had spilled into the ocean off the Kuwait coastline. Raging fires were consuming five-million barrels of oil every day. Noxious black smoke hung-over the nation, turning day into evening and filtering out sunlight. Prevailing winds spread airborne pollutants through the area to fall as acid rain in Saudi Arabia, Iran as well as portions of the Indian subcontinent.

Within days following the liberation, Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) assisted by Bechtel Group arranged longest and the hardest well blowout and fire-fighting operation within the background of the petroleum industry. The process's greatest success resulted in the quickest and biggest peacetime mobilization of individuals and machines actually seen. Caterpillar machines were the principle resources within this procedure. By early November, work which most folks believed would take five years was finished.

1992 - Florida

Caterpillar machines assist recovery efforts following Hurricane Andrew.

Caterpillar generator sets supply backup and main power for the 1992 Summer Olympics.

1992 1998 - Hong-kong

1993 - Washington

Ten Caterpillar machines are a part of the fleet contractors are employing to construct the Spirit Lake Memorial Highway on Mount St. Helens.

This highway joined several visitor centers and observatories constructed following the crushing erruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980.

1993 - U.S.

People fight its aftermath and the Mississippi River flooding with the assistance of engines and Caterpillar machines, dealers and workers.

Caterpillar machines are difficult at work in Boston on the project called the "Big Dig."

1993-2008 - China

Around 300 Caterpillar machines help assemble the Three Gorges Dam.

Caterpillar generator sets supply backup and main power for the 1994 Winter Olympic Games.

1994 - Mexico

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Huites Hydroelectric Dam.

1994 1997 - California

Over 70 distinct Caterpillar products help assemble the Seven Oaks Dam.

1995 - Panama

Caterpillar machines have been being used on the Panama Canal widening project.

Caterpillar machines and generators were an essential element of rescue efforts, clearing debris, and furnishing electricity for from the medical examiner's tent for the lift used to have rescue workers up the right or left side of the building.

1995 - Brazil

100 and four Caterpillar machines help assemble the Paulinia-Brasilia Polyduct pipeline.

1995 1998 - Toronto, Canada

Caterpillar machines help construct Highway 407, a brand new 42mile sixlane expressway around Toronto.

1996 2000 - California

Caterpillar machines perform in the Eastside Reservoir project.

1997 - Turkey

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Dalaman Akkopru Dam.

1997 1998 - Brazil

Several hundred Cat machines help assemble the Fernao Dias Highway.

1998 2002 - Tocantins, Brazil

Caterpillar machines help assemble the Luis Eduardo Magalhaes Hydroelectric Power-plant.

1999

1999 - Antarctica

1999 - Canada

Almost 400 Cat machines help assemble the 351-mile Canadian piece of the Maritimes & Northeast natural-gas pipeline.

1999 2006 - Atlanta, Georgia

Over one hundred Caterpillar machines help together with the growth of the Hartsfield International Airport.

The growth of the Hartsfield International Airport incorporated a brand new monorail system and terminal plus a brand new runway.

2000 2003 - Luzon, Philippines

2000 2005 - Nagoya, Japan

2001 - Antarctica

Caterpillar provides three new-gen sets to Operation Deep Freeze for a recent study base on Antarctica.

2001 - U.S.

In the days after the assault, a lot of the gear at Ground Zero was made by Caterpillar.

2001 - Brazil

Caterpillar ships 760 megawatts of electric generating power to Brazil to help alleviate power shortages in that nation.

Included in a gigantic one gigawatt distributed generation task to alleviate electrical power shortages caterpillar sent 760 megawatts of electric generating power to Brazil. With 90-percent of Brazil's power originating from droughtstricken hydroelectric plants - and compulsory rationing imposed by the Brazilian authorities - this is the greatest electric power project ever undertaken by Caterpillar everywhere on earth to that time.

2001 2004 - Athens, Greece

2002 2014 - Switzerland

Over 50 different Caterpillar machine versions help assemble the Gotthard Base Tunnel, section of the AlpTransit Project.

2002 - U.S.

Almost 220 Caterpillar machines help construct a natural-gas pipeline from Wyoming to SoCal.

2002 - Japan and South Korea

Caterpillar generator sets supply uninterrupted power for the 2002 World Cup football match for the length of the occasion.

2002 2006 - Iceland

Over one hundred Cat machines help assemble the Karahnjukar Hydropower Project under development in Iceland.

2003 - Malaysia

Over one hundred Caterpillar machines help assemble the Bakun Dam.

Over 600 Caterpillar machines help assemble added lines for the Ligne a Grande Vitesse.

Between 1977 and 1983, over 200 Cat machines done the very first lines for the brand new Ligne a Grande Vitesse (high speed train) built between Lyon and Paris. From 1987 1989, over 80 Cat machines were involved in building an additional 160mile rail line from Paris to LeMans, as well as its 21 tunnels and 300 overpasses. In 2003, Cat machines once more played a part within the building of France's highspeed railway system when contractors employed over 600 Cat machines to build 280mile line from Paris to Strasbourg.

2003 - U.S.

Caterpillar supplies most of electricity generation and supplier support throughout the biggest power outage in US background (to this day).

Two megawatt trailer units and over 300 backup generators were trucked to towns for example Cleveland, Nyc and Detroit to have them up and running again. Trading on Wall Street was uninterrupted because of Cat power.

2003 2010 - Nevada & AZ

Caterpillar machines help assemble a bypass highway close to the Hoover Dam to displace the initial highway that runs on the dam.

Caterpillar machines and supplier staff help with aid and clean-up efforts subsequent to the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the region.

2004 2008 - Beijing, China

Caterpillar machines help assemble distinct sites that'll be utilized for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing.

2004 2010 - Shanghai, China

Caterpillar machines help assemble the infrastructure Shanghai must host the 2010 World's Fair and Exposition.

2004 2014 - Romania

Cat machines help assemble the 588-kilometer-long Transylvania Motorway.

When full, the Transylvania Motorway will join Bucharest with Oradea. Contractors utilized 135 Cat machines to build only one 258mile section of the highway that featured over 70 overpasses, 300 bridges and 19 interchanges.

2005 - U.S.

Caterpillar and its own dealer network react with goods, individuals, and financial assistance to aid with recovery efforts within the Gulf Coast following Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma.

Continuing work started in 1967, Caterpillar machines continue to be functioning within the Athabasca Oil Sands.

Now in time, there are about 500 bits of Caterpillar products owned by 20 different organizations operating within the oil sands.

2005 - India

2006 - U.S.

Caterpillar machines perform a leading part within the building of the 300mile-long Entrega Pipeline.

Stretching from WY to Ohio, the 1, 663 - Rocky Mountain natural gas reserves will be connected by mile Rockies Express Pipeline to customers around the East Coast. Caterpillar's involvement goes beyond building gear. Solar gas turbines, Gas Caterpillar Motoren (GCM) compaction engines (Entrega may be the first new mainline pipeline to utilize GCM engines), Cat Financial-services and 6 Sigma-increased tactical support preparation were crucial aspects of the job. The finished pipeline will use Solar's InSight System machines management solution enabling realtime tracking and predictive maintenance to optimize efficiency and reduce expenses.

2007 - Russia

Cat machines help assemble the 1,100kilometer Yamal-Ukhata pipeline.

Russia's Yamal-Ukhta pipeline is a part of the planned 2,500kilometer gas transportation system built-in one of earth's most severe climates.

2007 2014 - Panama

Cat machines help assemble the growth of the Panama Canal.

Contractors utilized 75 Cat devices on only the initial two periods of the six-period project. When full, the new singlelane, threestep lock system will enable the Panama Canal to accommodate boats which aren't now transiting the waterway because of their large-size.

More Than 400 new Caterpillar machines help assemble 2,400kilometer rail line via the Nafud Desert in Saudi Arabia.