Caterpillar Inc. is an American 'Fortune 100' corporation which engineers, designs, manufactures, and sells financial products, engines, machinery, and insurance to customers from a worldwide dealer network. It is the largest construction equipment manufacturer in the world.
Caterpillar machinery line is recognizable by its trademark 'Caterpillar Yellow' livery and the 'CAT' logo. The range from tracked tractors to hydraulic excavators, backhoe loaders, motor graders, off-highway trucks, wheel loaders, agricultural tractors and locomotives. Machinery line of Caterpillar is used in the construction, road-building, mining, forestry, energy, transportation and material-handling industries. It also began selling a line of on-road trucks; the Cat CT660 and a Class 8 vocational truck, in 2011.
Caterpillar Inc. traces its origins to the merger of the Holt Manufacturing Company and the C. L. Best Tractor Company in 1925, creating a new entity, the California-based Caterpillar Tractor Company. The Caterpillar company reorganized as a Delaware corporation under the current name, Caterpillar Inc. in 1986. The most significant engineering innovation attributed to Benjamin Holt, the founder, was the invention of the first commercially successful track-type tractor known as today’s dozer.
