By the late 1990s, Case IH introduced the Cross-Flow series of drum combines alongside the Axial-Flow models. The combines were built at the MDW factory in eastern Germany and were not sold in America. The CF80’s three-drum threshing system was initially sized the same as the largest MDW combines. Following that was a square mixing drum at the front of the threshing unit. Like earlier models, it featured sieves arranged on three levels. The engines had been updated to 8.3-liter Case–Cummins units.

The first model was the 300-horsepower CF80. It had six threshing drums, as did the 280-horsepower CF70. The CF50, with 200 horsepower, and the CF60, with 240 horsepower, each had five drums. The CF50 and CF70 both had only two straw walkers. The cab was somewhat simpler than those on the Axial-Flow combines, and the noise level was 79 dB. Standard equipment included automatic air conditioning, an air-suspended seat, a grain loss monitor, and, on the CF60 and CF80, a cutterbar that could tilt both laterally and longitudinally.

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