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Cummins has announced that it will add Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) aftertreatment to its Heavy-Duty products for the US market in 2010 to deliver the best fuel efficiency for its customers.

Cummins have announced it has concluded its joint ventures with CNH Global and Iveco, two Fiat Group companies. Under the new agreement, Cummins will purchase CNH’s equity stake in Consolidated Diesel Company (CDC) and will sell its interest in the European Engine Alliance.

Fallout from the Caterpillar/Navistar deal continues with an announcement by Freightliner concerning the return of Cummins as an engine supplier in the US. Freightliner have only offered Detroit or Cat in heavy duty for the last five years on their domestic market.

The fallout from Caterpillar’s decision to get out of the highway truck engine market in the US after 2010 has started to reverberate around the North American truck engine makers world.

Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) engines made by Westport, as seen at the recent Melbourne Truck Show in the Innovation Kenworth, are starting to make progress in the US market with a sale of 20 HPDI LNG engines to a single customer in California.

Cummins is on pace to report a fifth consecutive year of record sales and profits in 2008, and is poised for significant further growth over the next several years, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Tim Solso told shareholders at the Company’s annual meeting in the US.