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Recently, Cummins honored seven of its employees with the Company's highest technical award for their work on two inventions. Mark D. Akins, Bryan W. Milburn, Dennis M. King and Greg M. Pataky were recognized for their work to improve turbocharger technology on Cummins' midrange engines. Steven M. Bellinger, Brian C. Tyler and John F. Kalill received the 2012 Perr Award for developing a system and

On Nov. 15, Cummins officially opened its Cummins Angola operations. The project is a joint venture partnership with Angolan Project Net, which is led by CEO Jorge Jover. Located in Viana Industrial Park outside the capital city Luanda, Cummins Angola currently occupies 1,000-square meters of office and parts outlet space, as well as 1,750-square meters of warehousing.  Cummins is working cl

The global engineering leader in turbocharging technologies chose IAA Hannover to unveil several near-market solutions, which it believes reflect the changing priorities of global engine and vehicle manufacturers whose future products are being developed to insulate customers from rising fuel prices. Speaking at the event, Executive Director for Product Line Management & Marketing, Mark Fir

Cummins Power Generation's manufacturing facility in Fridley, Minn., is returning parts of its grounds to their native prairie state, potentially reducing water and fertilizer use. A grass burning took place in July in space that will become a small prairie as part of a pilot project at the site. Another area by a new test cell will also be seeded with prairie grass this fall. Fridley Plant

The shift in focus - from emissions driven innovation towards solutions that prioritise fuel economy - highlights Cummins Turbo Technologies' belief that the industry has now reached the tipping-point at which global engine and vehicle manufacturers are developing products designed to insulate customers from rising fuel prices. Executive Director for Product Line Management & Marketing, Mark F

Cummins South Africa employees decided it was not enough to merely increase recycling in Alexandra Township, an informal settlement of Johannesburg, South Africa, near the Company's offices in Kelvin. To really address Alexandra's problems, they had to look for ways to reduce the area's population of rats - some the size of small cats. And the best way to control the rat population, they con

The Cummins campus in Guarulhos, Brazil, is near several major highways and São Paulo's international airport. Traffic in the area is frequently bumper-to-bumper. Green space is limited. But over the past three years, nearly 800 Cummins employees have planted some 5,000 trees in the area. Not only has their work helped beautify the city, the air is cleaner, dust has been reduced and temperature

​​Passengers traveling between the borough of Hackney and historic Victoria Station have been given a glimpse of the greener future of London's iconic bus system. A new bus inspired by the original double-decker Routemasters and powered by a Cummins ISBe 4.5 litre engine, carried locals and visitors using state-of-the-art hybrid technology. Cummins engineers worked closely with Wrightbus in

Major infrastructure upgrades can be very capital intensive, and the Jamestown Engine Plant (JEP) in western New York hadn't seen many over the last 40 years. All that changed in 2012, however, including the plant's approach to energy use. A "deep energy retrofit" project is underway at the nearly one million square foot facility as part of a corporate-wide commitment to improving energy effici