Cummins Changes to Majority Voting Standard for Board Elections

COLUMBUS, Ind.--The Cummins Inc. Board of Directors has voted to amend the Company’s corporate by-laws to strengthen the voting standard to elect Directors. The Company has moved from a plurality standard to a majority voting standard for electing Directors.

Under the new standard, candidates for Director must earn a majority of all votes cast. Should a Director fail to receive a majority, he or she must tender their resignation, which will be acted upon by the Board within 90 days of the election. Previously, candidates only needed to receive the most votes among all those running for a given Director’s position. The plurality standard will still apply in contested elections.

Cummins has a nine-member board that includes seven outside Directors, in addition to Cummins Chairman and CEO Tim Solso and Cummins President and Chief Operating Officer Joe Loughrey. All Cummins Directors are elected annually.

About Cummins

Cummins Inc., a global power leader, is a corporation of complementary business units that design, manufacture, distribute and service engines and related technologies, including fuel systems, controls, air handling, filtration, emission solutions and electrical power generation systems. Headquartered in Columbus, Indiana, (USA) Cummins serves customers in more than 160 countries through its network of 550 Company-owned and independent distributor facilities and more than 5,000 dealer locations. Cummins reported net income of $550 million on sales of $9.9 billion in 2005. Press releases can be found on the Web at www.cummins.com.

Statements made in this release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding the company’s expectations, hopes, beliefs and intentions on strategies regarding the future. It is important to note that the company’s actual future results could differ materially from those projected in such forward-looking statements because of a number of factors, including, but not limited to, general economic, business and financing conditions, labor relations, governmental action, competitor pricing activity, expense volatility and other risks detailed from time to time in Cummins Securities and Exchange Commission filings.