About CLAAS Group
Innovation from the beginning
CLAAS is a family business founded in 1913 and is one of the world's leading manufacturers of agricultural engineering equipment. The company, with corporate headquarters in Harsewinkel, Westphalia, is the European market leader in combine harvesters. CLAAS is the world leader in another large product group, self-propelled forage harvesters. CLAAS is also a top performer in world-wide agricultural engineering with tractors, agricultural balers and green harvesting machinery. The CLAAS product portfolio also includes state-of-the-art farming information technology. CLAAS employs 11,448 workers worldwide and reported a turnover of 3.8 billion euros in the financial year of 2019.
Locations
When it comes to customers, CLAAS is never far away – we are represented in many countries around the world, with our production facilities for our wide range of products and representative offices for sales and other services.
For more information, please visit our global website at www.claas-group.com
CLAAS in China
In China, CLAAS is mainly represented with two wholly owned subsidiaries, CLAAS Agricultural Machinery Trading (Beijing) Co. Ltd and CLAAS Agricultural Machinery (Shandong) Co. Ltd., responsible for sales and production respectively.
CLAAS BU Sales and Service China
Located in Qingdao city of Shandong province, CLAAS BU Sales and Service China serves as a CLAAS sales and service organization in China, subordinating to CLAAS global sales and service business unit.
Within this organization, two teams, CLAAS Agriculture Machinery Trading (Beijing) Co., Ltd and the Sales and Service team from CLAAS Agriculture Machinery (Shandong) Co., Ltd, work together for the sales and service of both CLAAS and CHUNYU products.
CLAAS Agriculture Machinery (Shandong) Co., Ltd
Starting as a joint venture under the name of CLAAS Jinyee, CLAAS Shandong was founded in 2014 at Gaomi of Shandong province, subordinating to CLAAS global Business Unit Grain (BUG). Since 2017, the company has been fully integrated into the CLAAS group as a wholly foreign owned company, responsible for production of CHUNYU products and some of CLAAS products, thus being able to even better combine the expertise of CLAAS production management with the proximity to our local customers.
As one of CLAAS 13 global stratigic production bases, CLAAS Shandong manufactures not only CHUNYU products that are exclusively suited to China market, but also CLAAS products for global market and components for CLAAS production sites with the quality that can compete with wester standards.