Prominent engineer Dr Helmut Claas has been handed the Royal Agricultural Society of England’s (RASE) most prestigious award, the Gold Medal for Distinguished Service to Agriculture.
The medal was presented to Claas at the Royal Show this week. The award is made to individuals who have made ‘an outstanding and sustained contribution to the agricultural industry’.
“Dr Claas has spent the past 60 years in pursuit of crop harvesting excellence and with more than 100 patents registered to his name the Gold Medal will, without doubt, pay tribute to his sharp engineering mind and his firm grasp on the grass roots of agriculture,” said RASE chief executive John Moverley.
The Claas Group employs 8,500 people and has 14 manufacturing operations, based in Germany, elsewhere in Europe and throughout the world. The Helmut Claas Scholarship prize is awarded annually for outstanding projects or studies in the fields of agricultural engineering, general engineering or business management.
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