Case Study
KRONE Maschinenfabrik - Bernard Krone GmbH & Co. KG
The MES Experts! HYDRA Success Story KRONE Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH & Co. KG Founded in 1906 as a forge and craft workshop, Krone grew into one of the leading manufacturers of agricultural machines in the course of time. Today, the Emsland family business Bernard Krone is managed by the fourth generation. The company reached a turnover of 1.84 billion euros in the fiscal year 2015/16 selling and producing agricultural machinery and commercial trailers. The subsidiary Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH in Spelle, Germany, which is an independent entity since 1999, concen trates on high performance machinery for modernday agriculture. One example is the world’s most powerful forage harvester Big X 1100 equipped with an engine with over 1,000 hp output. The Krone products