TUCANO assembly already started
The Kazakh President, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, attended the inauguration ceremony of the new CLAAS assembly plant in Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan. During the ceremony, CLAAS Regional Director Dr Nils Roitsch described the numerous special features of the modern assembly line, which will be primarily used to produce the TUCANO combine harvester. Besides the President, Roman Sklyar (Deputy Prime Minister), Yerbol Karashukeyev (Minister of Agriculture) and Yerlan Koshanov (Head of Presidential Administration) also took part in the opening ceremony. More than 90 harvesting machines are expected to be fully assembled by the beginning of the next harvesting season at the new site in the Republic of Kazakhstan. On account of the tight schedule, production of the first TUCANO combine harvesters had already begun before the official opening.