Caterpillar Enterprise System financial director, Marc Thompson (R) gives a press conference next to his translator after the extraordinary meeting of the board of Caterpillar, in Nivelles, on September 2, 2016. Caterpillar said on September 2, 2016, it is considering closing its plant in Belgium and making 2,000 workers redundant as the US heavy equipment maker plans global job cuts amid lower demand. The firm, famed for its iconic yellow diggers, said it is "contemplating" moving production from its sole plant in Gosselies, Belgium to one in Grenoble, France and other manufucturing sites outside Europe. / AFP PHOTO / BELGA / NICOLAS MAETERLINCK / Belgium OUTNICOLAS MAETERLINCK/AFP/Getty Images