A special edition New Holland combine harvester commemorates more than 100 years of innovation

• Zedelgem: The history of harvesting innovations since 1906

• The MZ: the first self-propelled combine harvester in Europe, in 1952

• CX8090: the world's highest-performing conventional combine harvester

• The CX8090 Jubilee: a perfect blend of history and cutting-edge technological innovation

New Holland has built a unique CX8090 to celebrate its long history as a leader in harvesting equipment. Since 1906, Zedelgem, in Belgium, has been at the heart of the harvesting world.

Countless innovations have emerged there, including the very first self-propelled combine harvester in Europe, the MZ in 1952, as well as the birth of Twin Rotor technology in 1975.

Today, ultra-modern combine harvesters are still produced on the same site. The CX8090 Jubilee will proudly take its place next to its ancestor, the MZ, on the New Holland stand at SIMA in Paris.

Zedelgem: The history of harvesting innovations since 1906

Léon Claeys opened his first workshop in Zedelgem in 1906 and, more than a century later, the engineers with yellow blood continue to build market-leading combine harvesters, forage harvesters and high-density balers.

Zedelgem is the New Holland Centre of Excellence for harvesting equipment: the prestigious Big Yellows, the CX and CR ranges, as well as the forage harvesters and BigBaler high-density balers are designed, developed and produced on site. The recently expanded visitor centre takes its guests on a journey through New Holland's illustrious past and right up to today's modernity.

The MZ: the first self-propelled combine harvester in Europe, in 1952

In 1952, the first MZ rolled off the production line. More than 212 000 self-propelled combine harvesters left the factory over more than 60 years, and the world of harvesting has never changed so much.

The MZ, the first self-propelled combine harvester in Europe, developed 65 ch (hp) and could be fitted with a cutterbar up to three metres wide.

CX8090: the world's highest-performing conventional combine harvester

Benefiting from exceptional expertise that has constantly thrived since the original MZ, the CX8090 is the conventional combine harvester offering the highest capacity in the world, developing a maximum power of 490 ch (hp).

The renowned New Holland four-separation-element technology, which provides high inertia and smooth operation, guarantees outstanding threshing performance combined with gentle straw handling, in order to preserve the qualities its users are looking for.

In addition, the self-levelling cleaning box maintains maximum cleaning capacity on side slopes of up to 17%.

The CX cab is an industry benchmark for its excellent visibility, comfort and very low noise level (74dB(A)).

The CX8090 fully complies with the Tier4A standard thanks to its SCR ECOBlue™ Cursor engine, which reduces consumption by up to 10% and significantly lowers carbon emissions.

The CX8090 Jubilee: a perfect blend of history and cutting-edge technological innovation

The elegant CX8090 Jubilee proudly features graduated painted side panels whose colour shifts from New Holland yellow to rich Claeys orange tones, evoking the merger of these two harvesting giants, a merger that enabled the development of these cutting-edge machines.

This Jubilee edition also proudly displays the historic 1952 badge in the original Claeys colours, to highlight its illustrious heritage.

The cab has been generously upholstered in the softest leather, specially inlaid with Claeys orange in contrast with black stitching, and it features a carefully embroidered headrest, the whole evoking more than sixty years of heritage.

New Holland worked in partnership with Centro Stile, Fiat's styling centre, so that the pioneering spirit of the original MZ would be found in the CX8090, the most modern and highest-performing conventional combine harvester.