Ten years in the making, Cummins Emission Solutions is demonstrating that a company can be green and profitable at the same time. Sales for the exhaust after-treatment maker have gone from nothing in 2002 to $1.2 billion in 2011 while Cummins Emission Solutions’ workforce has grown from just 11 employees to more than 1,400 today. “This is all about green jobs,” says Srikanth Padmanabhan, Vice President and General Manager of Cummins Emission Solutions. “We’re trying to clean the environment.”

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.

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 closely with the Angolan government to maximize the Private Public Partnership Framework to invest in the energy sector.

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 method for estimating vehicle mass, which enabled Load Based Speed Control (LBSC).

For the eighth year in a row, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has awarded Cummins a perfect score in the 2013 Corporate Equality Index as part of its Best Places to Work initiative. This is a big recognition for Cummins, a company that prides itself on diversity.

1/16/2015 Update - Standings after Stage 12 Twelve out of 13 stages are now complete at Dakar, and all three rally trucks (powered by Cummins) for the Ginaf Rally Power team remain in the thick of things. After Stage 12 - which took competitors approximately 525 miles from Termas Rio Hondo to Rosario - Wulfert Van Ginkel sits in 12th place, Jos Smink sits in 17th place, and Edwin Van Ginkel sits in 22nd place.

It’s here. At 8:05 a.m. ET, the 2016 Nissan Titan XD full-size pickup powered by a Cummins 5.0L V8 Turbo Diesel made its much-anticipated debut at the 2015 North American International Auto Show. At the heart of every great vehicle is a strong engine. A strong 5.0L V8 Diesel Cummins, that is. #NissanNAIAS pic.twitter.com/OUrAoNFAqe

Cummins executive Pamela Carter, the first woman to lead one of the company's four main business units, will retire as president of the Distribution Business effective April 1, 2015. Carter joined Cummins in 1997, initially serving as the company's Vice President - General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. Prior to joining Cummins, she served as the state of Indiana's first African American woman Attorney General. In a press release issued by the company earlier today, Cummins Chairman and CEO Tom Linebarger hailed Carter as a pioneer and top leader.

Cummins recently recognized 13 employees at the Technical Leaders Conference with  its highest technical award  - The Julius Perr Innovation Award - for their work in meeting stringent U.S. emissions standards to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx). Cummins created the award - named after Dr. Julius Perr, the inventor or co-inventor on an astounding 80 U.S. patents - to honor the inventors of Cummins' technologies that provide the greatest value to employees, customers and other stakeholders.

The original Napier-Railton race car was built in 1933 and made its debut in August of that year at the Brooklands race track in Surrey, England. Piloted by John Cobb, the car broke the Brooklands outer circuit lap record of 143.4 mph in 1935, and went on to set the 24-hour record of 150.6 mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1936.