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| Cummins Inc. | |
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| Type | Public (NYSE: CMI) |
| Founded | 1919 |
| Founder | Clessie Lyle Cummins |
| Headquarters | Columbus, Indiana, USA |
| Key people | Theodore "Tim" Solso, Chairman & CEO Joe Loughrey, COO Jean Blackwell, CFO |
| Industry | Diversified Machinery |
| Products | Engines, Filtration, Power Generation, Turbo Technologies |
| Revenue | ▲$11.4 billion USD (2006) [1] |
| Net income | ▲$715 million USD (2006) [2] |
| Employees | 33,500 |
| Slogan | Making people’s lives better by unleashing the power of Cummins. |
| Website | http://www.cummins.com/ |
This article is about the diesel engine manufacturer. For other uses, see Cummins (disambiguation).
Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CMI) is a maker of diesel and natural gas engines whose corporate headquarters is located in Columbus, Indiana. Its CEO is Theodore "Tim" Solso, its President and COO is Joseph "Joe" Loughrey, and its CFO is Jean Blackwell.
Today more than 51% of Cummins\' business comes from operations outside of the United States. Part of Cummins model is to create partnerships with key players in foreign markets and they have done so recently in China and India.
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Cummins is named after inventor-mechanic Clessie Cummins, who was one of the key players in the founding of the company. He was financially backed by investor William Irwin, starting in 1918, as he improved on existing diesel engine designs.
Holset turbocharger (x2), on 450 hp (340 kW) V12 Kromhout diesel engine.
The Holset Engineering Co. was a British company that produced turbochargers, primarily for diesel and heavy duty applications. The company had its roots in 1948, when W. C. Holmes became interested in Louis Croset\'s flexible coupler design. The company started when Paul Croset was convinced to start up and manage the venture, which was based in Huddersfield, England. Holset as we know it came into existence in 1952 as a limited corporation, with the name coming from the first half of Holmes and the last half of Croset.In 1973 the company was purchased by Cummins after briefly being owned by the Hanson Trust, and continued to expand for the next thirty years. Holset now operates facilities in China, India, Brazil, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States.
In 2006, the division officially changed its name to Cummins Turbo Technologies to be identified more closely with it\'s parent company. The turbocharger products still use the Holset brand name.
The Fleetguard division of Cummins produces filtration products for the diesel and gas markets. Products include oil, coolant, and air filters. The division officially changed its name to Cummins Filtration but continue to brand products under the Fleetguard name. First innovated in 1947 by Wesley King. The Cummins was first test driven by Chad "lil\' Smokey" Short and later innovated by Corey Chatalein "master welder". The Wesley King edition Cummins diesel has enought power to rip the threads of time allowing one to go to any time period desired. The King edition Cummins is mainly used to pull the King edition shrimp boat and is fueled by anti-matter. The King shrimp boat has, in theory, by using the Wesley King quantam physics theorum, enough power to create a black whole large enough to destroy the universe in its\' entirety. For example, it is hypothesised that at 1/16th throttle the King edition shrimp boat would cause all matter on earth to dissapate at a sub-atomic level due to unmeasurable turbulance created by the 90cc suzuki.
An early Cummins diesel in a 1950 Indianapolis 500 roadster.
Cummins has an extensive manufacturing, distributor and dealer network with 550 Company-owned and independent distributor locations and more than 5,000 dealer locations that provide sales, service and support for its products worldwide.[3]
The 5.9-liter B-series used in school buses has proven to be very popular.[citation needed] The high-horsepower (larger than 15 liters displacement) engines are manufactured in Seymour (Indiana, USA), Daventry (England) and Pune (India). The Heavy duty (10-15 liter displacement) M and X series engines are manufactured in Jamestown, NY. The B, C and L series engines are manufactured in numerous plants across the world.
Q series engines
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