The Next Century of Progress Starts Now
Our past points us toward our future.
Over the last century, Caterpillar has grown with our customers to help build a better, more sustainable world. We’ve changed together as the world has changed: creating, building, problem-solving, testing, innovating, servicing, and improving. When customers choose our products, services and solutions today, they also gain 100 years of experience and expertise.
Whether you’re a customer, an employee, a dealer, a supplier or simply a fan, you’re part of Caterpillar’s 100-years-and-counting story. Join us as we look back, and then take the first steps into our next century together.
Meet Our Founders: Holt and Best
One was known as the “Henry Ford of the track-type tractor.” The other held 45 patents and once rode on the Zeppelin. Together they brought Caterpillar to life.
How Did Caterpillar Get Its Name?
We could have been the “Mud Turtles.” Fortunately, an astute observer of Benjamin Holt’s first track-type tractor declared it looked like a “monster caterpillar.”
Caterpillar’s Most Unusual Products
From wheeled dozers to tractor mowers—explore some of Caterpillar’s unusual machines through the decades.
