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| During the 1920’s Willamette Iron & Steel became
a leading manufacturer of lumber carriers in the USA. |
1923 |
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| Willamette Iron & Steel, Electric Steel
Foundry and Ersted Machinery joined forces and formed a new company.
The new company was named the Willamette Ersted Company
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1929 |
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| The straddle carrier with forks was one of the earliest
forklift trucks manufactured by the company that, by this time, had
been renamed HYSTER. |
1934 |
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| The “BT” with its cable hoist system and
ability to lift 3000 kg capacity was one of the first HYSTER
Fork lift trucks. |
1935 |
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| As HYSTER grew so did its operations. In
1936 Hyster’s first ever production plant was built in Portland
in Peoria, Illinois. |
1936 |
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| By experimental use of tractor frames, one of HYSTER
key products was born – the Mobile Crane. The Mobile Crane was
later to be known as Karry Krane. |
1940 |
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| As the need for a variety of lift truck sizes became
more apparent, Willamette-HYSTER designed a new smaller lift
truck, known as the “Handy Andy”. |
1941 |
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| The “Jumbo” was the first Willamette-HYSTER
truck to use pneumatic tyres and was also the first model with a telescoping
mast. |
1942 |
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| Now officially renamed, HYSTER sets up an
export department to provide better service for lift trucks sold in
other parts of the world. |
1944 |
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| HYSTER Company opens its manufacturing plant in Danville,
USA, the first devoted exclusively to the mass production of lift
trucks. |
1946 |
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| HYSTER introduced the pneumatic tyre range
including the first three wheeled lift trucks. |
1948 |
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| The first HYSTER manufacturing plant outside
of the USA was opened in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. The HYSTER“40”
and Karry Kranes were the first machines to be assembled there. |
1952 |
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| As the success continued, HYSTER built a
brand new plant in Glasgow, Scotland. The plant later relocated to
its current site in Irvine, Scotland. |
1957 |
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| The emerging worldwide network gave ride to an increasing product
range and HYSTER moved into a new market in 1959 with its American
built container handlers, later called “Big Trucks”. |
1959 |
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| HYSTER created a European marketing base
in London, which at present is situated in Fleet, Hampshire. |
1962 |
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| In 1964 HYSTER introduced the famous Monotrol®
pedal which was a new unique development in the material handling
industry providing forward/reverse directional control on one simple
pedal. |
1964 |
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| Determined to build for the future, in 1966, HYSTER
built the Portland Technical Centre. Today, this is still the world’s
best-equipped and largest lift truck testing facility. |
1966 |
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| Throughout the 1970’s changing customer expectations
and fierce competition from the Far East reshaped the face of the
industry. To meet the new challenge HYSTER developed the XL
philosophy of “quality at an affordable price” |
1970 |
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| HYSTER opened a new manufacturing plant in
Craigavon, Northern Ireland. Later, this plant would be the first
to produce HYSTER lift trucks using Demand Flow Technology
systems. |
1981 |
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| “HYSTER France” a Sales and Marketing
office was created in France with the mission of structuring and supporting
the distribution network in this market. |
1985 |
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| The family owned HYSTER Company was purchased by NACCO, a
fortune 1000 company based in Cleveland, Ohio. |
1989 |
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| In 1993 the XL philosophy gave place to the new XM styling, which
was first introduced on the new H2.00-3.20XM series, combining outstanding
performance and excellent driver comfort. |
1993 |
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| Following the acquisition of manufacturing plants
in Modena and Masate, Hyster began the development of its warehouse
equipment range in order to become a full-line supplier. |
1996 |
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| A substantial programme of investment began to establish
Nijmegen as the Global Centre for Big Truck design, development and
manufacturing, with worldwide production being transferred to the
plant in 2002. |
1998 |
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| HYSTER extends the XM philosophy to its 3.5
to 5.50 tonne internal combustion range and simultaneously launches
its first fully reengineered warehousing product, the S-series stacker. |
1999 |
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| A programme of product launches and improvements
begins introducing a high degree of harmonisation across the warehousing
range, standardising on such key components as the combi-controller
and revolutionary new tiller head. |
2000 |
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| The H8.00-16.00XM was launched, featuring the all-new
“Vista” cab design, setting new standards in ergonomics
and visibility for operators. This also coincided with the implementation
of DFT in big trucks manufacturing. |
2001 |
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| In April the “Matrix” reach truck was
launched, a flagship product symbolising HYSTER`s drive to
become a key player in the warehousing market. |
2002 |
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| In 2005 HYSTER launched the FORTENS™
truck, packed with innovative design features to boost customer productivity |
2005 |
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