The corporation Pinguely-Haulotte was just named the Haulotte Group during the year 2005. The change in name was the first time within 124 years the name has not included Pinguely. The Haulotte Group is popular for manufacturing articulated work platforms, telescopic work platforms, vertical mast-work platforms, scissor lifts and trailer mounted work platforms.
The Haulotte Group acquired Bil-Jax, Inc. on the 24th of July, 2008. Bil-Jax is the largest US scaffold manufacturer. Currently, Haulotte Group has three factories in France, one plant in Spain, one in Romania, near the City of Pitesti. There is a new plant that opened during the winter of the year 2008. This factory is 1 km away from the existing factory near the city of Pitesti in Arges County. The factory is known as Arges II. There are also two plants in the United States, the former Bill-Jax.
Pinguely
The company was formed during 1881 in Lyon, France by Alexandre Pinguely. The company initially build steam engines. The company evolved into making machines eventually. During 1892, they supplied a train to the Chemin de Fer de St Victor a Thizy.
Pinguely provided 7 trains to the Voiron-Saint-Beron railway. When it comes to numbers produced, Pinguely was not a main steam engine manufacturer. The company provided a steam train to the Chemin de Fer du Haut-Rhone in the year 1930 and by 1932, Pinguely started making steam shovels. Production of steam locomotives was stopped and the company began focusing instead on mobile cranes and making earthmoving machinery instead.
Haulotte
During the year 1924, Haulotte was formed in L'Horme by Arthur Haulotte. The company was referred to as Ateliers de Construction A. Haulotte. This company 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.