2011 promises to be the most successful financial year in HORSCH Maschinen GmbH’s history. Recent sales data shows that the company’s record total turnover of EUR 180 million, set in 2008, will be exceeded.
The conditions for the company’s success next year are also clear. Innovative new machines help HORSCH not only hold onto its market share, but grow it too. HORSCH currently designs and manufactures soil-cultivation and seeding machinery, precision seed drills, crop-protection equipment and grain-transport equipment (Titan UW).
For Agritechnika 2011, HORSCH is expanding its range of soil-cultivation equipment, now represented by four product types: the Joker light disc harrows and Cruiser shallow-cultivation cultivators, and the Terrano and Tiger universal cultivators.
A fundamentally new development is the Cruiser XL shallow-cultivation cultivator. With a working width of 5 and 6 metres on a three-point hitch, and 8 metres in the trailed version, the Cruiser XL is an outstanding machine for stubble cultivation. What’s more, the implement can be used for pre-sowing soil preparation, for example after ploughing, or as a means of mechanical weed control and soil loosening in early spring.
The Terrano cultivator family, with its well-proven universal FX cultivator model, will be joined by the Terrano FM and Terrano MT, offering a very broad range of applications. The Terrano FM’s four-row design is suitable both for shallow stubble cultivation and for deep primary soil cultivation. The cultivator is fitted with a chassis positioned at the centre of the frame; the machine’s working width is 5, 6 and 7 metres. HORSCH is presenting the new Terrano MT model at Agritechnica – for combining surface mulching and deep loosening.
The heavy Tiger cultivator range, significantly expanded in recent years, is drawing growing interest from customers in various countries.
After the successful debut of the Express TD in a 3-metre mounted version at Agritechnika 2009, HORSCH is returning to its roots – developing direct-seeding machines adapted to the specific features of different regions
This year, three new wide-working-width models will be presented in this market segment. Among them is the Pronto SW, which inherits the time-tested technical solutions of the Pronto DC model range. The key difference of the new model is the presence of a large-volume trailed hopper for seed and fertiliser – up to 17,000 l.
Specially for large agricultural enterprises located in direct-seeding technology zones in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, the Pronto NT and Sprinter NT were developed. These seeding systems, with working widths of up to 24 metres, can be used for sowing both after preliminary soil cultivation and without it
HORSCH has fully reworked and expanded its precision seeding machine offering. The well-known mechanical precision seed drills Maistro RC and Maistro CC will be joined by their new pneumatic counterparts, the Maestro SW and Maestro CC. Ideal seed metering and singulation precision, along with the seeding-control mechanisms used in this model, offer a glimpse of the future development of this agricultural machinery segment. Thanks to these qualities, the Maestro is versatile and ideally suited for sowing corn, soybean, sunflower, sugar beet or rapeseed
Following the successful launch of PT 270 and GS 6000 sprayer sales in Germany, all three HORSCH Leeb sprayer models currently in production will, starting this year, be offered to customers in Poland, the Czech Republic, Denmark and Lithuania. A well-developed network of sales and service centres for this new HORSCH product group has already been established in these countries. Presented at Agritechnika, the new HORSCH Leeb GS 8000 trailed sprayer, with an 8000 l tank capacity, is a further development of its successful predecessor, the GS 6000.
