Heavy equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. reported its fourth-quarter profit fell 55% to $697 million, or $1.04 a share, from $1.55 billion, or $2.32, a year ago, on lower production.

Heavy equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. reported record 2011 sales, said its profit almost doubled and boosted its sales and earnings outlook for 2012.

Caterpillar Inc. said Wednesday it will build a $150 million engine manufacturing facility in India to produce engines and will invest $62 million in its existing off-highway truck manufacturing facility there.

Heavy equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. said Monday its third-quarter profit jumped on higher sales.

Caterpillar Inc. will pay $2.55 million to the federal government and California to settle claims it sold engines without proper emissions controls and violated emission control reporting and engine labeling regulations, the Environmental Protection Agency said.

Heavy equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. said Friday its first-quarter profit more than quintupled on higher sales, and its boosted its full-year earnings outlook.

LAS VEGAS — Caterpillar Inc., the construction-equipment manufacturer which dropped out of the Class 8 engine market two years ago, entered the on-highway vocational truck market last week with the introduction of the first in a line of Caterpillar-branded severe-service trucks.

Caterpillar Inc. said it considering selling part of its logistics business.

Heavy equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. said Thursday its fourth-quarter net income more than quadrupled on higher sales.