Case Manufactures 300,000th Skid-Steer Loader at Wichita Plant

Case Construction Equipment announced its manufacturing facility in Wichita, Kan., has produced its 300,000th Case skid-steer/compact track loader. The commemorative edition TR270 compact tract loader rolled off the production line March 13 and will be shipped to Southeastern Equipment Co., a Case dealer and major equipment rental company based in Brunswick, Ohio.

Michael Roth

March 22, 2017

Case employees in Wichita Kan with the 300000th skidsteer loadercompact track loader that the 175yearold manufacturer has produced — Case employees in Wichita, Kan., with the 300,000th skid-steer loader/compact track loader that the 175-year-old manufacturer has produced.

Case Construction Equipment announced its manufacturing facility in Wichita, Kan., has produced its 300,000^th Case skid-steer/compact track loader. The commemorative edition TR270 compact tract loader rolled off the production line March 13 and will be shipped to Southeastern Equipment Co., a Case dealer and major equipment rental company based in Brunswick, Ohio.

Established in 1974, the 11-plus acre Wichita facility houses both skid-steer loader and compact track loader product manufacturing, as well as dedicated research and development. The site employs more than 400 people and exports to national and international markets in the NAFTA, Europe Middle East and Africa, Latin America and Asia Pacific regions.

Case Construction Equipment sells and supports backhoe loaders, excavators, motor graders, wheel loaders, vibratory compaction rollers, crawler dozers, skid-steer loaders, compact track loaders and rough-terrain forklifts.

About the Author

Michael Roth

Editor

Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.