Brochure
25 TO 74 HP DIESEL PRODUCTS
The new EPA Tier 4 standard
and what it means to you
The Toro Company
8111 Lyndale Ave South
Bloomington, MN 55420-1196
www.toro.com/tier4
800-803-8676
©2011 The Toro Company. All Rights Reserved.
Part No. 11-008 -T. Printed in U.S.A
As you review your own needs and options for capital
spending on EPA Tier 4 compliant turf equipment, you
may want to consider the experiences of end-user customers in
other industries that dealt with the same challenge. The trucking
and large off-road industries experienced significant pre-buy
behavior. This increased demand created availability issues because
equipment manufacturers were unable to meet the unforecasted
demand. In addition, the engine manufacturers’ capacity be-
came constrained as they converted existing manufacturing lines
to the new Tier 4 product, while demand for existing technology
remained strong.
What can or should you do?
Act now to learn more and share what you know!
• Become knowledgeable about the coming
EPA Tier 4 Emission Standard:
– Conduct a simple internet search
on “EPA Tier 4 Emission Standards” to learn as much
as you can on this topic directly.
– Ask any equipment manufacturer
who supplies diesel powered equipment 25 to 74 hp
how they plan to become Tier 4 compliant.
– Visit www.toro.com/tier4.
Information regarding how Tier 4 will impact customers
in the turf maintenance business is scarce. As a service to
our customers, we’ve created an informational website to
provide relevant details, answer some common questions
and share several relevant links.
• Educate your leadership team and nancial stakeholders about
Tier 4 and the possible impact it may have on your equipment
purchasing plans.
• Understand the availability for both existing and new Tier 4
technology solutions and how it may influence your options
and decisions starting in 2013.
Create a capital equipment acquisition plan with
a longer-range view of spending priorities.
• Specically review your diesel equipment needs by Tier 4 hp
category (i.e. less than 25 hp, 25 to 74 hp, 75 hp and higher).
• Perform nancial ROI analysis for different scenarios to un-
derstand possible financial impact based on various strategies.
• Understand budgetary and product availability implications of
purchasing equipment before and after the mandatory January
2013 compliance timing.
Contact your local Toro Distributor partner to:
• Acquire additional presentation materials and information to
help you educate your organization on Tier 4 environmental
and financial implications.
• Obtain budgetary pricing to develop a recommended eet
acquisition and capital spending plan for a three to five year
timeline to help optimize long range ROI scenarios.