MTD (company)

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MTD Inc.
legal form Inc.
founding 1932
Seat Cleveland , USAUnited StatesUnited States 
Website www.mtdproducts.com

The MTD Inc. (originally Modern Tool and Die Company ), headquartered in Cleveland , State of Ohio motorized is family owned befindlicher designer, manufacturer and distributor gardening tools .

background

The company was founded in Cleveland in 1932 by engineers Theo Moll, Emil Jochum and Erwin Gerhard, who emigrated from Germany, as a supplier of tools and semi-finished cast products , later also stamped steel parts , for local industry (toy manufacturers). Later, the company made its own products, initially tricycles and the like, since the early 1950s wheelbarrows , later other gardening tools, and in 1958 the first hand lawn mower. Be next to petrol and electric At numerous production sites in the US, Canada and Europe lawnmowers and ride-on mowers, lawn tractors , mower , scarifier , snow blowers , leaf blowers , tillers , lawn trimmers , lawn edgers , chippers , log splitters , chainsaws , ATVs u. a. manufactured.

MTD lawn mower

In 1970, the lawnmower division of the Eislingen- based company Ventzki was taken over, which resulted in MTD Motorgeräte GmbH, which is now responsible for looking after the specialist trade. In 1996, MTD took over the German company Gutbrod , manufacturer of motor-driven lawnmowers and small tractors, in Plochingen am Neckar. This resulted in today's European headquarters MTD Products AG with headquarters in Saarbrücken-Bübingen and sales offices and subsidiaries in France, Austria, Hungary, Sweden, Denmark, Bulgaria, Russia, Switzerland, the Benelux countries and Poland. The two European production sites are located in Saarbrücken-Bübingen and Nemesvámos (Hungary). Lawn care equipment has also been produced for the European market under the Massey Ferguson licensed brand since 2006, and lawn tractors in the lower price segment for Toro since 2007 . Wolf-Garten was taken over in September 2009 . F. Robotics Acquisitions Ltd was acquired in May 2017 .

Brands

  • Bolens (founded in 1850, taken over in 2001)
  • Craftsman
  • Cub Cadet ( bought by International Harvester in 1981 )
  • Gardenway (the brand was taken over in 2001 after Garden Way Inc. went bankrupt, along with their other brands Troy-Bilt and Bolens)
  • Gutbrod
  • MTD
  • Troy-Bilt (acquired in 2001)
  • Ventzki Handling Systems based in Eislingen ; 1970 only lawnmower division taken over
  • White Outdoor (acquired in 1981)
  • Yard machines
  • Yard-Man (acquired in 1975)
  • Wolf Garden (taken over in September 2009)
  • Robomow (acquired in 2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See archived copy ( memento of the original from October 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. As of March 17, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.betzdorf-sieg.de
  2. ↑ WOLF Garten: Details . March 2, 2017 ( wolf-garten.com [accessed June 13, 2017]).