Global Citizenship Report - John Deere

A PROUD HISTORY OF
CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP
GCRAN Litho in U.S.A. (12-05)
John Deere serves as mayor of Moline
from 1873-1875, overseeing infrastructure
improvements like the paving of sidewalks
and the introduction of street lights,
as well as the appointment of the city’s
first librarian.
Deere & Company’s third chief executive
officer, William Butterworth, chairs the first
Quad Cities-area chapter of the American Red
Cross. He personally delivers the Moline, Illinois,
chapter charter to Washington, DC in 1917.
Deere implements voluntary workers’
compensation program in 1901, ten years
before the first U.S. Workers’ Compensation
statutes.
In the absence of commercial alternatives,
Deere designs and builds its own clothscreen
filtering system in 1920 to clean
exhaust from plow-grinding operations.
In a move that would save countless
farmers’ lives, Deere shares its patent for
ROPS (rollover protective structure) with the
agricultural equipment industry in 1966.
John Deere Werke Mannheim creates
innovative rooftop wastewater treatment
system in 2001. The system uses plants
to purify wastewater, decomposing
contaminants and cleaning the water. The
factory is saving about 60 percent of the
cost of traditional wastewater treatment.
Deere & Company
One John Deere Place
Moline, Illinois 61265
(309) 765-8000
www.JohnDeere.com