Caterpillar is the world's biggest supplier of heavy earth-moving equipment to the mining industry.

Caterpillar is the world's biggest supplier of heavy earth-moving equipment to the mining industry. It was also one of the first companies in that industry to promote a code of environmental and human rights conduct. But, over the past year, its direct supply of machinery to Israel, for use in the occupied West Bank, has attracted growing concern and opposition. It has also led the Washington-based Multinational Monitor to name Caterpillar as one "the worst ten corporations of 2002".