PLA by John Deere

My last but certainly not least stop in Brazil last week, was at PLA Canoas where we produce J-Series sprayers. This mighty team has been hitting their strategy milestones, despite the challenging environment they are facing – business cycle, market volatility, and major expansion projects. In the last half a year, they have obtained ISO 14001 environmental certification, and reached multiple environmental KPI’s. Congratulations! They have also implemented John Deere employee survey and now are looking into different ways to improve PLA employee experience. I would like to express gratitude to the team for everything they do. It takes courage and hard work. I also encourage them to keep working on a day-to-day execution while keeping an eye on the horizon, looking into the bright future.  

A fábrica da PLA by John Deere em Canoas-RS, acaba de ser recomendada para receber a certificação ISO 14001 como parte do processo de recertificação das fábricas da John Deere no Brasil. Nosso sistema de gestão ambiental é parte integrada do processo de gestão do negócio e fortalece o nosso compromisso de entregarmos soluções com crescimento sustentável.

I had the chance to participate in an event organized by John Deere Brazil with all the John Deere dealers of Brazil in Canoas, where we had the chance to discuss how important is the Pla portfolio to be able to offer to additional customers the Deere solutions. Several key dealers presented their success to offer the Pla portfolio to many new customers, and shared how more farmers are requesting the Deere solutions through the Pla machines. We also had the chance to visit the current Pla plant in Canoas that has experienced tremendous improvements and shared with our dealers our plans to move to a new facility with state-of-the-art technologies. Thanks to Antonio Carrere President of JD Brazil and to all his team to lead this event, and to all the Brazilian dealers for their commitment to offer more solutions to our customers through the Pla portfolio.