Some are necessary and we can’t switch them off Others help us to provide you with the best possible service We use cookies to personalise content and ads to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic We also share anonymous information about your use of our site with our social media By accepting cookies you will be helping us to continue to provide you with the best possible service FPT Industrial has reported reaching the production milestone of 100,000 natural gas (NG) engines The landmark was achieved at the company’s manufacturing plant in Bourbon-Lancy home of its large engine manufacturing operations The 100,000th NG engine was an XCursor 13 intended for the truck market The multi-fuel model is said to offer best-in-class power it delivers an 8% reduction in CO2 emissions over the previous 13-litre engine the engine can power vehicles for up to 1.2 million kilometres Since the introduction of the Cursor NG engine family in 2004 the plant has produced more than 45,000 engines (8.9- and 13-litre models) about 1200 employees produce the heavy range of NG engines The engines from this range went into production in 1997 the plant received the World Class Manufacturing Gold Level described as being the highest possible classification for excellence in operations plant manager at the Bourbon-Lancy facility said: “This monumental milestone results from the combination of many factors: industry-leading engine design to meet market demand excellence in production engineering to facilitate efficient build and the commitment of our motivated workforce to meet output schedules and maintain customer satisfaction these strengths demonstrate that we can achieve impressive goals in the pursuit of satisfying the industry’s need for low-environmental impact powertrains.” Natural gas is one of several alternative fuel technologies offered by FPT Industrial The fuel can deliver significant improvements in air quality Other benefits include noise reduction and improved fuel economy from the multipoint stoichiometric combustion technology You’ve reached your limit of premium article views this month Become a Plus Member today and gain further access to the content The trusted reference and buyer’s guide for 83 years The original “desktop search engine,” guiding nearly 10,000 users in more than 90 countries it is the primary reference for specifications and details on all the components that go into engine systems Unique marketing services that create demand for your products locally Marketing Services Download Media Kits The FPT Industrial engine manufacturing facility in Bourbon-Lancy has achieved Gold Level designation in the World Class Manufacturing (WCM) program after IVECO’s Madrid and Valladolid plants in Spain The factory specializes in the manufacture of the Cursor engine series which offers 77 technical variations and over 5,700 different options It has a production capacity of some 80,000 engines a year The Bourbon-Lancy site is recognized as a center of excellence for both diesel and natural gas engines manufacturing a range of bespoke engines to meet the specific requirements of a range of applications from On and Off Highway vehicles to marine and power generation The Bourbon-Lancy plant is well known in the region for its commitment to sustainability In  addition to being the home of the most successful natural gas-powered engines on the market the plant has also implemented a number of projects that focus on minimizing the impact of industrial activities and protecting the biodiversity of its surrounding environment World Class Manufacturing is one of the global manufacturing industry’s highest standards for the integrated management of manufacturing plants and processes It is a pillar-structured system based on continuous improvement designed to eliminate waste and loss from the production process by identifying objectives such as zero injuries a system of periodic third-party audits evaluates all of the WCM pillars forming an overall score for each plant that is the basis for three achievement levels: Bronze The WCM audit in Bourbon-Lancy noted progress and consistency across a variety of both manufacturing and managerial areas including Cost Deployment and Autonomous Maintenance Workplace Organization leading to the Gold Level designation FPT Industrial Bourbon-Lancy plant awarded World Class Manufacturing Gold Medal Lo stabilimento FPT Industrial di Bourbon-Lancy ottiene la certificazione Gold Level nell’ambito del programma World Cla daughter of Robert and Linda Tunick of Sparta son of Philippe and Annie Bellorgey of Bourbon-Lancy at the First Presbyterian Church of Sparta The reception was held at nearby Perona Farms and included a group swing dance lesson for attendees The couple is heading to France later this month for additional wedding celebrations in Bourbon-Lancy and Bordeaux where they will celebrate their union with members of the groom's extended family who were unable to make it to the ceremony They are planning a honeymoon sometime early next year The bride was attended by maid of honor Christel Kania and bridesmaids Suzy Auletta brother-in-law of the groom; Marc Mouminous and Samuel Delord served as ring bearer and the groom's niece The bride is a 1990 graduate of Pope John XXIII Regional High School She earned a Bachelor of Arts in English/journalism from Pepperdine University in 1994 and a Master of Arts in public affairs reporting from the American University School of Communication in 1996 a monthly publication covering the hedge fund industry; the former president and a longtime member of the board of governors of the New York Financial Writers' Association and a member of the New York Junior League Bayview Correctional Facility committee a high school in Moulins sur Allier and a 1996 graduate of the Centre Universitaire des Sciences et Techniques Universite Clermont II He is a computer engineer for United Water The couple recently bought a house in Ridgewood but within the next couple of years they plan to move to France where they will live for at least three years The strike by 1,200 workers at CNH Industrial in Wisconsin and Iowa is set to enter its fourth week on Monday The agricultural and construction equipment workers are fighting for significant improvements to wages While workers at CNH are determined to fight for their livelihoods and those of the next generation the United Auto Workers union has been meeting behind closed doors with management working with a strategy to isolate and ultimately sabotage the strike and force workers to accept a contract that meets none of their demands The company has taken a hard line against workers deploying salaried personnel and outside scabs to continue production CNH is declaring that there is “no money” to substantially raise workers’ living standards But the reality is that CNH oversees global operations raking in billions and paying its executives and shareholders handsomely CNH (formerly known as Case New Holland) is second only to John Deere by sales wielding immense influence over the planet’s agricultural production The company maintains commercial operations in nearly every corner of the globe North America accounted for the largest share of CNH’s revenue in 2021 CNH employed nearly 37,000 people worldwide in industrial activities The large majority (31,100) are involved in producing ag equipment A smaller share of employees (5,770) produce the company’s Case-branded construction equipment as well as sister powertrain brand FPT Industrial CNH spun off more than 31,000 workers at its commercial trucks division into a separate company a holding company controlled by Italy’s billionaire Agnelli family and 4,500 scattered throughout the rest of the world This international workforce—along with the workers at CNH’s myriad parts producers and suppliers—are the strikers’ natural allies and a potential source of colossal strength are bound together with thousands of their brothers and sisters around the world in a vast assembling and producing highly valuable and socially vital equipment CNH’s annual gross profit was $7.5 billion CNH’s 2021 annual gross profit is even more than its 2019 profits CNH recently released its first quarter financial results which outperformed the expectations on Wall Street The first three months of 2022 for CNH saw its industrial operations sales grow 13 percent Its Earnings Before Interest and Taxes (EBIT a main measure of profitability) rose to $429 million for the quarter CNH’s net income was down roughly $27 million from the year prior due mainly to the company’s suspension of operations in Russia What is known today as CNH is the end result of mergers and consolidation over the span of decades The frenzied competition of corporations under capitalism is driven by the need for profit resulting in the gobbling up of companies and the slashing of jobs and workers’ wages Among the main predecessors of CNH were farm equipment companies J.I which also traced its roots to the mid-1800s and the McCormick family dynasty the capitalist ruling class around the world launched a counteroffensive against workers Democratic President Jimmy Carter had appointed Paul Volcker as chair of the Federal Reserve In the name of combatting inflation—in reality implementing a deliberate strategy to beat back workers’ demands for higher wages much as Fed Chair Jerome Powell is doing today—Volcker drastically raised interest rates had the knock-on effect of devastating large numbers of US farmers who had in preceding years taken on significant amounts of debt which now became unsustainable with interest rates in the double digits combined with a deliberate corporate campaign of deindustrialization and job cuts Harvester and similar companies being thrown into unemployment At the same time, these attacks were met with heroic resistance by workers, including during the 1979-80 International Harvester strike, one of the longest in the UAW’s history, and the 1986-87 strike-turned-lockout at John Deere sold its farm equipment division to Case’s then-parent company eventually becoming the corporation known today as Navistar invariably leaving shuttered factories and jobless workers in their wake Case Corporation merged with rival farm equipment maker New Holland N.V. which was owned at that point by Italian auto and industrial equipment firm Fiat Fiat Industrial was founded after the demerger of the activities of Iveco following the merger of Fiat Industrial and CNH Global N.V consistently trimming its workforce as it acquired more and more companies at the cost of billions The ebbing and flowing of mergers and demergers along with the driving down of costs in the form of destroying jobs has been done to pump out profits for CNH’s wealthy shareholders and executives CNH Chief Financial Officer Oddone Incisa gushed about the large amounts of money being gifted to investors the company paid out its largest ever dividend to shareholders a sum of 380 million euros (approximately $400 million) CNH is also spending $100 million in share buybacks a technique to pump up the company’s stock value further enriching the company’s biggest investors while other top executives were similarly showered with millions in salaries and stock awards Above the CEO and shareholders sits the Agnelli family Italy’s Agnelli family owns a controlling stake in both CNH and Iveco as well as being the largest shareholder of auto giant Stellantis and luxury carmaker Ferrari The family’s total worth was estimated to be $13.5 billion in 2014 and has no doubt climbed far higher since the extremely wealthy Agenellis has overseen major business deals and invested in major companies they’ve invested in Alfa Romeo (1986) and Chrysler the latter acquired by Fiat after it filed for bankruptcy in 2009 The Agnelli family is also a majority investor of Serie A football club Juventus F.C The strike by CNH workers is the first one in nearly 20 years This fact is certainly not because workers were satisfied with their pay conditions over the last two decades the UAW has worked to suppress strikes and enforce pro-company contracts Illinois and Minnesota to stop moves towards a new tiered wage and benefit structure in which the company was seeking to brutally slash pay for new hires the UAW ordered workers to return to their plants declaring an unconditional surrender in response to CNH’s moves to unilaterally impose its terms took the offensive and initiated a lockout which was to last 17 weeks Former UAW Region 4 Director and later UAW President Dennis Williams—who is sitting in jail for his part in a massive UAW conspiracy to embezzle millions in workers’ dues—led the union’s ramming through of a contract workers had originally struck against The late Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne who served as chairman of CNH Global from 2006 till his death in 2018 was implicated in the automaker’s bribery of UAW officials to secure company-friendly agreements Marchionne and Williams were notorious among autoworkers for their warm embrace during the opening of contract talks at the Big Three in 2015 In 2021, Stellantis, Fiat Chrysler’s successor, pleaded guilty of funneling $3.5 million in bribes to UAW officials. The corruption investigation, which was reported to be continuing as recently as late 2021 sent three FCA executives and at least a dozen UAW officials to prison There are ample resources to meet the needs of workers and their families All over the world, workers are beginning to move into struggle, launching strikes or demonstrations in an effort to overcome the ravages of inflation. This includes workers at Detroit Diesel who recently voted to reject a contract negotiated by the UAW with just an 8 percent raise over six years workers face in the UAW an organization that has long colluded with the companies forcing through painful concessions contracts on their behalf What is necessary now is the independent initiative of workers to build rank-and-file committees expanding the recently formed CNH Workers Rank-and-File Committee at every plant in order to articulate and fight for workers’ real needs and to break through the information blackout imposed by the UAW In confronting an international company of CNH’s size workers must put forward an international strategy of their own The thousands of CNH workers across the globe must be seen as allies in this fight rank-and-file committees should initiate contacts not only with workers at non-union CNH plants in the United States but at the company’s factories internationally in order to prepare a counteroffensive for higher wages and decent working conditions To join the CNH Workers Rank-and-File Committee, email cnhrfc@gmail.com To talk to some at the WSWS about joining or forming a committee at another workplace This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page SPARTA -- Robert and Linda Tunick announce the engagement of their daughter The bride-to-be graduated from Pope John XXIII Regional High School in 1990 She received her bachelor's degree from Pepperdine University in 1994 and her graduate degree from the American University School of Communication in 1996 the past president and a current member of the board of governors of the New York Financial Writers' Association and a member of the New York Junior League Her fiance is a 1990 graduate of Lycee Banville and a 1996 graduate of the Centre Universitaire des Sciences et Techniques Universite Clermont II The couple recently purchased a house in Ridgewood They are planning a July wedding in Sparta followed by a celebration with the groom's family in France in September.