The business Pinguely-Haulotte was recently named the Haulotte Group during the year 2005. The name change was the first time in 124 years the name has not included Pinguely. The Haulotte Group is known for manufacturing articulated work platforms, telescopic work platforms, trailer mounted work platforms, vertical mast-work platforms and scissor lifts.
On July 24th, 2008 the Haulotte Group acquired Bil-Jax, who was the US' largest scaffold manufacturer. Now, Haulotte Group has one factory in Spain, three plants in France, one in Romania, near the City of Pitesti. There is a new factory which opened in the winter of the year 2008. This plant is 1 km away from the existing plant near Pitesti City within the County of Arges. The plant is called Arges II. There are also two factories in the USA, the former Bill-Jax.
Pinguely
The company was established during the year 1881 in Lyon, France by Alexandre Pinguely. The company initially constructed steam engines. The company eventually evolved into making machinery. During 1892, they provided a locomotive to the Chemin de Fer de St Victor a Thizy.
The company provided 7 locomotives to the Voiron-Saint-Beron railway. Pinguely was not considered a main locomotive manufacturer when it comes to numbers produced. The company provided a steam train to the Chemin de Fer du Haut-Rhone in the year 1930 and by 1932, Pinguely began making steam shovels. Steam locomotive production was stopped and the company started concentrating instead on mobile cranes and making earthmoving machines instead.
Haulotte
In the year 1924, Haulotte was formed in L'Horme by Arthur Haulotte. The company was called Ateliers de Construction A. Haulotte. This business specialized in the production of derricks, aerial platforms and mobile cranes.
Pinguely-Haulotte
Manufacturing it was decided to be sub-contracted to Pinguely-Haulotte, who was to be responsible for the engineering and marketing, research, design and development. All products were abandoned by Saubot so that the company could focus on self-propelled aerial work platforms.