2011
50 years of excellence and innovation in the self- propelled forage harvesters sector is celebrated in Zedelgem with the launch of the FR9000 50th Anniversary Limited Edition.
2010
New Holland is the first manufacture to announce Tier 4A and to establish a clear road map towards the achievement of the 2014 Tier 4B emissions regulations for 130 to 560 kW machinery thanks to the exclusive FPT Industrial SCR technology.
2009
The NH²™ hydrogen tractor and the Energy Independent farm project is publically unveiled and awarded at the SIMA show in Paris, France.
2008
The latest rotary combine model, the CR9090 Elevation, is launched and sets a new world record for combine harvesting, recognized by Guinness World Records, with 551.6 tons of wheat harvested in eight hours
2007
Tractor number 500,000 rolls off the Jesi production line in Italy.
2006
TM Endurance Trial in France: the 100% biodiesel fuelled TM 190 carried out various farming tasks over 20 days, clocking up more than 500 hours of continuous operation. New Holland becomes the most active producer of 100% biodiesel compatible products.
2001
New Holland’s CX combine is introduced, the Brand’s flagship conventional combine.
1999
The merger between New Holland N.V. e Case Corporation gave birth to CNH.
1994
The official launch of New Holland at our worldwide convention.
1991
Fiat, who had acquired Braud, purchased an 80 per cent interest in Ford New Holland
1986
Ford bought Sperry New Holland and formed Ford New Holland Inc.
1975
Braud launched his first grape harvester, model 1020. This was further improved with the famous Braud 1014, the bestselling grape harvester in the history of the vineyard, with over 2000 units sold in less than four years.
1974
Sperry New Holland introduced the world’s first twin-rotor combine: a winning idea, still leading the industry today
1973
Fiat 640, the most sold tractor of the famous Fiat “Nastro d’Oro” Series, was launched. An international success that still continues today.
1952
Clayes launched the MZ the first self-propelled combine harvester in Europe. 1964 Sperry New Holland bought a major interest in Claeys.
1950
In the late 1950s, production of two new Fiat models, Model 18 “La Piccola” and the 411 brought Fiat tractors true international success.
1947
The company changed its name into Sperry New Holland and the same year it made a major breakthrough in hay harvesting technology with the introduction of the haybine mower-conditioner
1939
Ford introduced the 3-point hitch on the ‘N’ tractor Series: one of the most successful tractor families ever
1918
Fiat Model 702 tractor was launched and went into full production a year later in Turin. It won the International Ploughing Contest in Senlis (France). Model 702 was the very first Fiat agricultural tractor built on industrial scale.
1907
Ford came out with the prototype for the world’s first mass produced, gasoline powered tractor, named an ‘automobile plow’. In 1917 the tractor renamed Fordson Model F went into production by a new business, Henry Ford & Son Company.
1906
Leon Claeys, a Belgian mechanic, started to develop threshing machines, and in 1906 built his factory in Zedelgem, Belgium, where our plant still stands today.
1895
Abe Zimmerman began in an equipment repair shop in 1895 in New Holland, Pennsylvania, USA, which is where our name comes from. Later on he started producing agricultural equipment to help the farming community around him.