The company will invest $44.4 million to develop an “industry 4.0 site,” Richenhagen said, which will create 200 new jobs atop the 100-plus jobs created with Beauvais 3, which began operations in September 2018.

He said AGCO intends to make Beauvais “the global home of the Massey Ferguson brand.” The expansion will support the integration of:

• A tractor customization workshop.
• An additive manufacturing facility, which will start next month for plastic parts and in 2021 for metal parts.
• In-house production of hydraulics pipes, which are currently outsourced.
• Gearbox remanufacturing.

This extra space will also allow AGCO to roll out a range of new agricultural machinery, as a part of the company’s growth plans for Massey Ferguson, the company said.

Source: AGCO

As many as 1,000 tractors rolled into the city, honking horns and flying the flags of the farm unions staging the protest. In the city center, farmers threw hay across the boutique-lined Champs-Elysees Avenue.

Farmers’ unions demanded a meeting with Macron to express grievances over policies such as the phasing out of the common weedkiller glyphosate. They did not obtain that meeting, but after talks with Agriculture Minister Didier Guillaume, the unions said they would meet Prime Minister Edouard Philippe soon and suspended protest.

Resentment among farmers has been growing at what they call “agri-bashing,” or criticism of agriculture over issues ranging from pesticide use to animal welfare. “We’re the new scapegoats. As soon as something goes wrong, it’s the farmers’ fault,” Jean-Yves Bricourt, leader of FNSEA in the administrative department of Aisne, told Reuters. “We’re treated like
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Source: Reuters