Lindner (agricultural machinery manufacturer)

Tractor factory Lindner GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	1946
Seat	Kundl , Tyrol , Austria
Number of employees	220 (2011)
Website	lindner-traktoren.at

Lindner 1600 (year of construction 1996) with mowers

The Lindner Tractor GesmbH is a Austrian family company based in Kundl and produced since 1948 tractors and transporters for mountain and grassland management as well as for forestry, municipal applications. Lindner specialized in off-road special vehicles for agriculture . The company was the first manufacturer of an all-wheel drive tractor in Austria.

history

Transporter T 3500 S

Lindner GeoTrac 100

Hermann Lindner was born on November 5, 1905 in Neustift in the Stubaital . In 1946 he founded the company to manufacture gang saws . The first S 14 tractor was built as early as 1948 and was presented to the public at the Vienna Autumn Fair that same year. The 14 hp model met with great demand. Lindner constructed further tractor models with engines of different performance and special equipment and in 1953 laid the foundation for the company's success with the development of the first Austrian tractor with four-wheel drive. In 1954 two such all-wheel drive tractors with a gradient of 65% left the 135-man company in Kundl every day. In 1956 a new production hall was built. On October 19, 1957, Hermann Lindner died in the hospital in Wörgl as a result of a serious car accident.

Models

The BF (Bauernfreund) 250, 320, 350 and 450 models were introduced in 1967 (some of them also available with all-wheel drive). The first Transporter (Muli) T 3500 followed the following year. In 1969 a special mountain tractor with small twin tires was developed.

From 1985, larger tractor types with engine outputs from 47 to 70 hp were built, and from 1991 also for a speed of 40 km / h.

1996 saw the market launch of the Geotrac 50, 60, 70 and 80 models. In 1999 the Geotrac 100 with 98 hp was introduced, of which around 10,000 had been produced by 2005. In 2001 the Geotrac 60, 70 and 80 models were relaunched with the new Geotrac 65, 75 and 85 models. In 2002 the Geotrac 83 and 93 models appeared with the new ZF powershift transmission. In 2003 the Geotrac 73 A was presented at the Ried trade fair. With a high-torque motor and a low center of gravity, this is designed for extreme (“alpine”) conditions.

The 10,000th Geotrac and the 1,000th Unitrac left the factory in 2005. In 2007 the Geotrac series 4 (106 to 126 hp) was presented. In 2009 the company presented the first model of the Geotrac Series 4 Alpin, the Geotrac 94. The Series 4 Alpin was expanded in 2010 with the Geotrac 64, 74 and 84 models.

In 2012, Lindner presented the most powerful model to date with 144 hp, the Geotrac 134ep. In the following year, Lindner launched the Lintrac 90, the first tractor with a continuously variable transmission.

Lindner today

The Lindner tractor factory is 100% family owned. Lindner has a market share of 14% in Austria. Approx. 50% of the production is exported to Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France, Slovenia, Holland and Norway. Over 65,000 tractors have been produced since 1948. In 2011, 1,550 vehicles were produced. In 2012, 220 employees worked at the Kundl plant.

On October 25, 2017, the managing directors Hermann and Stefan Lindner presented the Lintrac 110 tractor as larger, more modern and more fuel-efficient - with a consumption of around 6 instead of 7.2 liters per hour - than the previous model at a presentation to representatives of the press . The development took place in cooperation with ZF Friedrichshafen , represented by Mark Mohr, the "Head of Project House Automated Operations" at ZF. A co-steering rear axle ensures maneuverability. A prototype shows autonomous driving for which the legal framework is still missing. He can follow another vehicle or repeat a learned route or work.

Products

Lindner Lintrac, to counter terrorism in front of the entrance area of an event in Frankenfels , Lower Austria

Tractors
- 1000 models: 1048, 1055, 1065, 1450, 1500, 1600, 1650, 1700, 1750
- Geotrac Series 3: 63 Alpin, 73, 73 Alpin, 83 Turbo, 93, 103
- Geotrac Series 4: 64, 64ep, 74, 74ep, 84ep, 84ep pro, 94ep, 104ep, 114ep, 134ep
- Lintrac: Lintrac 90, Lintrac 110, Lintrac 130, ls 95, ls 112
Transporter models
- Tractortecnic Unitrac: 68, 78, 82, 92, 102, 82ep, 92ep, 102ep, 112 LDrive