D2B-Lancaster Fanning Saturday, June 1,1985
MILWAUKEE, WI - AUis-
Chalmers Corporation and
Klockner-Humboldt-Deutz AG
(KHD) of West Germany have
jointly announced that KHD has
purchased major elements of the
Allis-Chalmers agricultural
equipment business, including the
Allis-Chalmers Credit Cor
poration.
Klockner-Humboldt-Deutz is
establishing a new company in
North America, named Deutz-Allis
Corporation, for the manufacture,
marketing, distribution and
financing of agricultural equip
ment.
At the closing in New York
today, Allis-Chalmers received a
cash payment of approximately
$lO7 million, and it also will have
an opportunity to participate in
future profits of the new business.
Completion of the transaction
was annoucned by Bodo Liebe,
chairman of the Klockner-
Humboldt-Deutz Board of
Management, and Wendell F.
Bueche, president and chief
executive officer of Allis-
Chalmers. A preliminary
agreement had been announced on
March 28.
“This action by Klockner-
Humboldt-Deutz is a major
strategic move to strengthen our
worldwide position in agricultural
equipment,” Liebe said. “By
combining the many special at
tributes of Allis-Chalmers in farm
equipment, including products,
dealers and organization, with the
many strengths of Deutz, we are
convinced that our new entity will
be a major force in the North
American market.”
“For Allis-Chalmers,” Bueche
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said, “this transaction marks the
end of an eventful era in our
history. At the same time, it
signals a promising new future in
which we will be able to fully
concentrate our human and
financial resources and special
technologies on worldwide op
portunities for our well respected
process equipment capabilities
and other businesses.”
KHD and Allis-Chalmers said
that the following elements of the
Allis-Chalmers Agricultural
Equipment Company and the Allis-
Chalmers Financial Services
Company are included in the
transaction:
• The Combine Division and its
plants in Independence, Missouri,
and Topeka, Kansas;
• The central parts distribution
center in Batavia, Illinois, and all
parts locations in North America;
• The sales, marketing and
administrative organization;
• The Allis-Chalmers Credit
Corporation and the Allis-
Chalmers Financial Corporation,
which furnish wholesale and rental
fleet financing for dealers, lease
and finance plans for retail
customers and related insurance
services;
• Sales and marketing of im
plements and lawn, garden and
snow removal equipment;
• Designs and ' specialized
product tooling to make existing
Allis-Chalmers tractors, diesel
engines and service parts.
As previously announced, Allis-
Chalmers said that the Allis-
Chalmers tractor plant in West
Allis, Wisconsin, and diesel engine
plant in Harvey, Illinois, are not
included in the transaction, and it
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is anticipated then the tractui <.
would be phased out by the end of
1985 and the engine plant by mid
-1986.
The transaction calls for Deutz-
Allis Corporation to purchase from
Allis-Chalmers tractors, engines
and related service parts until the
plants are phased out.
“Employees of acquired
operations will continue under the
new ownership,” KHD and Allis-
Chalmers said. “Deutz-Allis
Corporation has its headquarters
within the Allis-Chalmers West
Allis Center Complex. Deutz-Allis
Credit Corporation is a wholly
owned subsidiary of the new
company and also is headquar
tered in the West Allis Center. ’ ’
Klockner-Humboldt-Deutz, he
adquartered in Cologne, is one of
the largest industrial companies in
both Germany and Europe. It
developed from the first engine
factory in the world, founded in
1864, and today is the world’s
largest producer of air-cooled
diesel engines and a major
European manufacturer of
tractors, combine harvesters and
other agricultural machinery
under the Deutz-Fahr name. Its
worldwide busiensses also include
the planning, construction and
erection of industrial plants and
machinery.
Two other wholly-owned KHD
subsidiaries in the U.S. are KHD
Deutz of America Corporation,
which manufactures and
assembles air-cooled diesel
engines in Richmond, Indiana, and
Deutz Corporation, Atlanta,
Georgia, which markets KHD
farm equipment in North America.
The North America farm equip-
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Bickel named Inter-State
District 15 director
SOUTHAMPTON - A 17-year
member of Inter-State Milk
Producers’ Cooperative was
named the new District 15 director,
President Robert B. McSparran
announced at the Board’s May
meeting.
Harry L. Bickel, West Chester,
replaces Richard H. Steele, who
resigned from the Board this
month. Steele, no longer an active
dairyman, was elected a director
in 1982.
Bickel, 39, farms in partnership
with Charles W. Davis Jr. on a 300-
acre farm in Chester County. The
dairymen own 200 head of grade
and registered Holsteins, which
includes a milking herd of 58 cows.
The son of former Inter-State
Director Harry H. Bickel, the new
director is an active cooperative
member. He has held several
Inter-State district and local of
fices, including president,
Eastern extends dairy products
division to NEDCO members
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Michael
Donovan, General Manager of
Eastern Milk Producers
Cooperative Association, Inc., has
announced the extension of their
Dairy Products Division
distribution system to the mem
bers of NEDCO (Northeast Dairy
Cooperative).
Eastern will serve the NEDCO
membership through their ex
tensive distribution system,
headquartered in Canton. This
system currently serves farmers
in a 10-state area, including other
cooperatives such as Dairylea,
Lehigh Valley Farmers, and Milk
Marketing, Inc. NEDCO member
dealers will have the opportunity
to participate in the Dairy
Product* distribution system if
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power and process equipment and
entered the agricultural equip
ment business in 1914. Today, Allis-
Chalmers process equipment
operating companies hold a
number of leadership positions in
the fields of air quality control,
fluids handling and solid materials
processing.
secretary/treasurer and annual
meeting delegate.
Active in community affairs,
Bickel is a deacon at Dilworthtown
Presbyterian Church. He serves on
both the Agway Brandywine board
of directors and the Agway West
Chester Petroleum Committee.
He and his wife, Beth, are
members of World Wide Marriage
Encounters and help coordinate
marriage enrichment programs.
They are the parents of three
children Donna, 17, Harry Jr.,
15, and Randy, 12.
A firm believer in Inter-State,
Bickel said his goals are to help
maintain cooperative membership
and to continue the support of
dairy promotion programs.
Inter-State District 15 covers all
of Delaware County and the
southeastern part of Chester
County.
they so desire
NEDCO members will be con
tacted by their headquarters
concerning this program and will
receive product order blanks for
use in ordering dairy products and
supplies.
“This combined effort of
Eastern and NEDCO will enable us
to better serve the membership of
both cooperatives and the dairy
industry by avoiding the
duplication of services to area
producers,” commented Donovan.
Dean McCormic, General
Manager of NEDCO, commenting
on the agreement said, “NEDCO
and Eastern’s involvement in this
will prove beneficial to
both cooperatives.”
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