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Claas celebrates half a million combine harvesters

Claas has reached a milestone in its combine-harvester history, with half a million of the machines built since the very first Claas MDB combine was produced in 1936. This was followed by the Hercules/SF, which was the first European-built self-propelled combine harvester, in 1953.

Since then, Claas combine harvesters such as Matador, Senator, Dominator and most recently the Lexion have set new standards both for technology and high levels of output and efficiency. Alongside this has been the development of operator assistance systems such as yield mapping in the early 1990s, telematics in 2005, and now CEMOS introduced in 2013, Claas outlined.
Claas will recognise this major milestone with several anniversary machines, sporting a special paint finish and branding. In addition all combines manufactured this year will have celebratory stickers on them.