Overview
Headquartered in San Diego, Hawthorne Cat has over 400 employees worldwide including locations in San Diego County, the Hawaiian Islands and throughout the Pacific Region.
Our main facility in Rancho Bernardo comprises 30 acres and includes our corporate headquarters and main service shop. Hawthorne Cat's service shop, which has over 50,000 square feet of floor space with 42 fully loaded service bays. Hawthorne is one of only a few service facilities in Southern California with an engine dynometer. Our state-of-the-art facilities showcase metal lathes, a 30,000 ft/lbs torque wrench, line boring services, a stress relief machine, paint booths for large equipment, end mills, auto welders and the capability to re-shape and re-skin moldboards, dozer blades and buckets. Additionally, Hawthorne Cat is one of a few Caterpillar dealers that can tear down and rebuild engines and components from a core.