The Mid-America Trucking Show (MATS) is the largest annual heavy-duty trucking industry event in the world. More than 70,000 attendees and 1,000 exhibitors from around the globe are expected to attend this year's event, which takes place at the Kentucky Expo Center in Louisville, KY between March 26-28. Cummins has supported MATS since its inception nearly 45 years ago, and has a history
Cummins was recently featured in a local news story on ABC 7 Chicago, highlighting its contract with the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) and the modernization of the CTA bus fleet. In 2012, Cummins NPower was awarded a contract by the CTA to provide a complete overhaul to 629 transit buses. In addition, Cummins NPower serves as a subcontractor for New Flyer, a bus Original Equipment Manufacture
Cummins recently recognized 13 employees at the Technical Leaders Conference with its highest technical award - The Julius Perr Innovation Award - for their work in meeting stringent U.S. emissions standards to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx). Cummins created the award - named after Dr. Julius Perr, the inventor or co-inventor on an astounding 80 U.S. patents - to honor the inventor
Ten years in the making, Cummins Emission Solutions is demonstrating that a company can be green and profitable at the same time. Sales for the exhaust after-treatment maker have gone from nothing in 2002 to $1.2 billion in 2011 while Cummins Emission Solutions’ workforce has grown from just 11 employees to more than 1,400 today. “This is all about green jobs,” says Srikanth Padmanabhan, Vic
Kent Roberts has a very personal connection to preserving a 5-acre parcel of oak trees and other vegetation in Mineral Point, Wis. where the Community Involvement Team at Cummins Emission Solutions has been working for the past three years. The park-like area, known as an oak savanna, is named for his former teacher who started the preservation effort. “My former teacher Don Hawkins, who the
The future of trucking could well be unfolding this fall along U.S. Route 287 in north central Texas. After months of testing concepts in trucks around the country, Cummins engineers and their colleagues in a public-private partnership will pull together the best of what they’ve learned and apply it to a single tractor-trailer. With an aerodynamic exterior, an engine that captures waste