Germany’s Krone is spending the equivalent of more than $13 million building a new production facility for its BiG X forage harvesters to realize plans for a 50% increase in sales of the big ticket machines.
“To achieve our sales ambitions of about 600 units annually, we have to increase our existing capacity from 300 machines a year,” says managing director Bernard Krone. “We could not achieve that by expanding our existing production facilities.”
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