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carried out to make communities more sustainable and resilient. [GR]: Just to build on that, we offer customized plans to enhance
Enhancing green cover, improving sanitation and increasing the ownership experience for Cat customers throughout product
access to clean water, providing quality education and improved lifecycle, with offerings like Customer Value Agreements (CVAs),
sanitation, are some of the efforts that reflect Caterpillar’s rentals, rebuild / remanufacture and financial solutions for new
commitment to building a more sustainable world. and used equipment. Cat Reman and Rebuild product offerings
as well as the range of repair options help to lower the equipment
What sort of signals are your customers giving you right now with owning costs.
respect to alternate fuel machines? Cat equipment is built to be rebuilt and reconditioned, and the
[NL]: Customers ask the questions and we have the solutions. As Cat Certified machine Rebuild options can transform the used
a global leader, we already have battery electric, alternate fuel, machines, bring new life to assets with like-new performance
engineless options, as well as tethered electric options where at a fraction of the cost of a new machine. In Cat Reman, we
it can be just plugged and used. We have the machines with inspect, disassemble, clean, and salvage end-of-life cores before
all these solutions. Right now, we also have to understand the remanufacturing and reassembling components to provide
infrastructure it requires at the job site for a fleet to work. We have like-new performance and durability at around 45-85% the cost
a full range including gensets and gas gensets and all these kinds of a new part when returning your used core. Cat Reman uses
of equipment. However, based on any customer requirement, we less resources and helps meet global customer demand while
want to build relationship with them for decades. We don’t sell only supporting a circular economy.
one excavator or one wheel loader. We sell fleets to customers. For example, we’ve displayed 7-year-old 323 D3 excavator and
On sustainability. There is another type. One, our mind goes a 20-year-old service motor grader at our stall which are rebuilt.
to electric. But the other way of sustainability is you burn lower We want our customers to know that Reman and Rebuild are also
fuel. If somebody is burning 14 litres and I’m burning 12 litres, I’m a way to achive their sustainability goals.
saving the earth. I’m burning less fuel for doing the same work. For
example, in these three new machines, you will find 5-10% lower In terms of market, how do you see the next, how does Caterpillar
fuel burn than our previous series. That’s our design, what we have see the next 5 years in India?
done. Going forward, we will be guaranteeing fuel consumption. (GR): Very positive. What you see is a flat kind of industry over last
That will be what we will be launching for our customers. As earlier year. But that base is very large. Given that it’s the world’s largest
mentioned, when the they sign the Customer Value Agreements, medium excavator market there’s still more opportunity for growth.
we will be having a fuel guarantee which will be lower than what So, all the way for next 4-5 years, we forecast significant growth.
they currently are. So basically, cash in customer’s pocket and Caterpillar’s mission is “Redining the future” and our 3 machines
less fuel burn. launched at Excon are “Efficiency Reimagined”.

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