Pasquotto and Yoder Promoted at Cummins Inc.

Columbus-based Cummins Inc. has announced that Luis Pasquotto has been named Vice President – Cummins Latin America, Engine Business. With the promotion, Pasquotto, who has been with Cummins since 1992, also will become a Cummins corporate officer.

Pasquotto, 51 and a native of Brazil, has held leadership positions within the Cummins Engine Business Unit (EBU) in Brazil for the past several years. He currently serves as General Manager of Cummins EBU Brazil, a position he has held since July 2008. Prior to taking that role, Pasquotto served as Director – Marketing for the EBU in Brazil from 2000-2008.

In his new role, Pasquotto will oversee the EBU’s business across Latin America. He also will lead Cummins’ overall business in the region as Chair of the Company’s Latin America Leadership Council.

Cummins Inc. has also announced that it has promoted Lisa Yoder to the newly created position of Vice President – Global Supply Chain. In her new role, Yoder will report to Cummins President and Chief Operating Officer Tom Linebarger and become a corporate officer.

Yoder joined Cummins in 1987 as a manufacturing engineer and has served as Executive Director – Supply Chain and Operations for Cummins Power Generation since November 2007. Yoder now assumes responsibility for management of Cummins’ worldwide supply chain across all business segments.

Cummins is a corporation of complementary business units that design, manufacture, distribute and service engines and related technologies, including fuel systems, controls, air handling, filtration, emission solutions and electrical power generation systems. Headquartered in Columbus, Indiana, Cummins serves customers in approximately 190 countries and territories through a network of more than 500 company-owned and independent distributor locations and approximately 5,200 dealer locations. The Company reported net income attributable to Cummins Inc. of $428 million on sales of $10.8 billion in 2009.

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Vietnam Motors Industry Lures Cummins

Columbus-based Cummins Inc. has signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a joint venture to produce on-highway diesel engines in Vietnam, according to Inside Indiana Business. Cummins will work with Vietnam Motors Industry Corp. Financial terms of the deal have not been set and no timetable for completing the joint venture agreement has been established.

Cummins Begins Production in China Venture

Production on a new heavy-duty engine by Columbus-based Cummins Inc. has officially begun in China, reports Inside INdiana Business

The Cummins ISM 11-liter heavy-duty engine will be made through Xi’an Cummins Engine Company Limited (XCEC), a joint venture between Cummins and China's Shaanxi Automobile Group Company Limited (Shaanqi Group). The new engine will be made to pass EPA 2007 and Euro IV emission standards and be able to power trucks, long-distance coaches and double-decker buses.

Cummins Supplies Bus Engines to Beijing

Columbus-based Cummins, Inc. has signed a deal with Beijing Public Transport Holdings Ltd. to supply 1,400 diesel and natural gas engines to power transit buses in China's capital city, reports Inside INdiana Business.

Cummins says this is the largest order of Euro IV diesel engines in the Chinese bus market. The order is part of the transport company's fleet upgrade to prepare for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games being held in Beijing.

China began adopting European on-highway emission standards in 2001 and the countrywide environmental standard is now Euro II. Beijing leads the country in terms of emission compliance with Euro III being the current standard, and the capital city will move to Euro IV in 2008.

Cummins is the largest supplier to China's nationwide Euro III/IV diesel bus engine market and is the largest supplier in the country's natural gas transit bus engine sector.

Cummins Builds in Wuhan, China

Cummins says it broke ground today on its first fuel systems plant outside North America.

Cummins Fuel Systems - Wuhan will be the Company's 13th production facility in China and is expected to begin production early next year.

Wuhan also is home to a regional Cummins service center and a technical center joint venture owned by Cummins and Dongfeng Motor Company. Cummins plans to invest approximately $10 million in the plant, which will assemble Cummins Common Rail (CCR) fuel pumps and CELECT injectors/fuel pumps primarily for the China market.

Cummins Fuel Systems designs and manufactures new and replacement fuel systems primarily for heavy-duty on-highway diesel engine applications. Much of the current production goes to the Company's engine business, with Scania being Cummins' primary outside customer.

Cummins currently designs and machines fuel systems in Columbus, Ind., and has an assembly operation in Juarez, Mexico.

Cummins buys out Indian turbocharger partner

According to The Indianapolis Business Journal, Cummins Inc. has bought the 50 percent stake in a turbocharger manufacturing operation in India that it didn't already own.

The Columbus diesel engine maker didn't disclose the price it paid to assume total ownership of Tata Holset Limited, a unit of Tata Group of Companies.

Tata Holset will be renamed Cummins Turbo Technologies.