John Deere acquired full ownership of three plants in the Deere-Hitachi joint venture and entered into new licensing and supply agreements with Hitachi Construction Machinery.

The 33rd edition of the world's leading trade fair for construction machinery and materials, mining machinery, vehicles and construction equipment, will be held in Munich from October 24 to 30.

During the Beijing Winter Olympics, a Chinese wall of snow was built to protect athletes from the wind. This was done using SY85C crawler excavators from the Chinese Sany Group SANY.