Caterpillar's Commitment to Sustainability | What Will We Build Today?

Nov 16, 2015

"We will continue to lead the way in sustainability, just like we did with the natural infrastructure summit," says Caterpillar, Inc. chairman and CEO Doug Oberhelman. "We will continue to get up each day and ask what can we build today? We have at least another century ahead of us to build and we will do just that."

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