Canadian harvest equipment maker MacDon Industries will make draper headers for Case IH Axial-Flow and New Holland combines for the major manufacturers to sell through their own dealer networks in the new year.
Case IH and New Holland, both owned by CNH, said separately Thursday they have partnership agreements in place with Winnipeg-based MacDon to make co-branded headers, for sale in almost all of Case and New Holland’s markets internationally.
The new MacDon draper headers are expected to be available for order through Case IH and New Holland dealers worldwide — except in South America — starting in early 2022.
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A draper header uses conveyors, rather than the augers seen on conventional-style headers, to carry crop coming in off the cutter bar toward the centre of the header for feeding into the combine.
“By pairing Case IH’s industry-leading portfolio of Axial-Flow combines and a robust dealer network with MacDon’s draper header expertise and products, we aim to deliver a best-in-class harvesting package for producers,” Case IH global president Scott Harris said in that division’s release.
As for New Holland, the NH agriculture division said its new MacDon co-branded draper headers would complement its own lines of combine headers.
New Holland will continue to make its own Varifeed grain headers and CornMaster corn headers, “allowing the brand to offer the best header solutions for all customers,” the company said.
“Bringing together the expertise from both brands will unlock the potential to significantly increase our customers’ in-field performance and decrease their running costs,” Lars Skjoldager Sorensen, head of harvesting product management for New Holland Agriculture, said in the same release Thursday.
“This partnership creates a best-case scenario for both brands, our dealers, and most importantly, our customers.”
MacDon, which makes windrowers, pull-type mowers and pickup headers as well as draper headers, started in 1949 as Killbery Industries and was renamed after its acquisition by the MacDonald family in 1971. Linamar, a Canadian industrial equipment and parts manufacturer, bought the MacDon business in 2018. –– Glacier FarmMedia Network
