Valtra Inc. is a fully owned subsidiaries of the American agricultural equipment manufacturer AGCO Corporation.

AGCO's headquarters are situated in Duluth, Georgia, and its EAME head office in Neuhausen, Switzerland.

In addition to Valtra, other AGCO brands include Massey Ferguson, Fendt, Challenger and GSI.

It had excellent cold start properties and featured liquid engine cooling, wet cylinder liners and direct injection.

The Brazilian government planned to nationalise tractor production, however, and announced a bidding competition for establishing factories there.

[11] Tractor cabs became more widespread in the 1960s, especially in the Nordic markets, due to more stringent safety regulations and comfort requirements.

In the late 1970s Volvo BM decided to focus on construction equipment and sell off its tractor and forest machinery business.

Between 1983 and 1989 the Tanzanian plant manufactured around 2000 Valmet 604 Series tractors, with 10 to 12 percent of components sourced locally.

[17][18] Valtra in turn manufactured the Massey Ferguson 4400 Series at the Suolahti factory for a few years beginning in 2005.

From the 1960s to the 2000s, Valmet/Valtra tractors featured metallic fuel tanks within the subframe, where they are protected from rocks, tree stumps and branches.

In the newest Valtra models the fuel tank is no longer situated inside the subframe, but forest protection is available.

With TwinTrac, the seat, along with the armrest located controls can be turned through 180 degrees to meet a second set of foot pedals and a smaller steering wheel placed at the rear of the cab.

Only Fendt has provided a similar fully integrated reverse-drive system, while in other brands such devices have been post-manufacture, third party additions.

Valtra is the only tractor manufacturer in the world that offers a factory-fitted reverse-drive system, which is ideal not only for forest work, but also for mowing and municipal maintenance tasks.

Valtra has continued the tradition of offering the most powerful four-cylinder tractors in the world with its M and N Series models, for example.

One was awarded for the Valtra LH Lift pivoting front linkage and the other for its semi-active AutoComfort cab suspension.

In 2008 Valtra was the first tractor manufacturer in the world to introduce SCR exhaust cleaning technology with its S Series.

The T Series also features an automatic powershift that switches to a lower gear range when needed at a preset speed.

The Valtra T Series was named Machine of the Year at SIMA, the Paris International Agri Business Show, in 2014.

[34] In autumn 2015 Valtra introduced its ASR traction control system on the fourth generation N Series.

This innovation optimises power in relation to the traction, reducing fuel consumption and avoiding damage to the ground.

Since the early 1990s Valtra has had a tradition of allowing the customer to tailor the tractor to specific needs and desires, in recent years called 'a la carte'.

Valtra offers a wide range of options and features, allowing customers to specify their tractors according to their own specific needs.

[35] In 2013 the Unlimited Studio was introduced to serve the customer further in this regard, allowing the addition to the tractor of "anything within reason" as a final step in the assembly process.