The corporation Pinguely-Haulotte was just named the Haulotte Group in 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 making telescopic work platforms, articulated work platforms, trailer mounted work platforms, vertical mast-work platforms and scissor lifts.
On July 24th, the year 2008 the Haulotte Group obtained Bil-Jax, who was the US' biggest scaffold manufacturer. Now, Haulotte Group has three plants in France, one plant in Spain, one in Romania, near Pitesti City. There is a new plant that opened during the winter of 2008. This plant is 1 km away from the existing factory near Pitesti in Arges County. The plant is known as Arges II. There are also two factories in the USA, the former Bill-Jax.
Pinguely
Alexandre Pinguely established the Pinguely Company in 1881 in Lyon, France. At first, they constructed steam locomotives. The business evolved into making machinery eventually. During the year 1892, they supplied a steam engine to the Chemin de Fer de St Victor a Thizy.
The company supplied 7 locomotives to the Voiron-Saint-Beron railway. Pinguely was not considered a main locomotive manufacturer in terms of numbers produced. The company supplied a steam train to the Chemin de Fer du Haut-Rhone during the year 1930 and by the year 1932, Pinguely began manufacturing steam shovels. Production of steam locomotives was stopped and the company started focusing instead on mobile cranes and manufacturing earthmoving machinery instead.
Haulotte
In 1924, Haulotte was established in L'Horme by Arthur Haulotte. The company was referred to as Ateliers de Construction A. Haulotte. This company specialized in manufacturing 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, design, research and development. All products were abandoned by Saubot so that the company can concentrate on self-propelled aerial work platforms.