30,000 machine milestone
Friday 26 Jan 2024
Tigercat Industries is pleased to announce that it has
built and shipped its 30,000th machine in January 2024,
just over 30 years into its existence. From humble beginnings in 1992 when
Tigercat had a single product, very little dealer representation, and
produced just a handful of machines, the company has grown steadily,
expanding both its production capacity and product breadth.
A few quick facts
- Tigercat debuted the 726 feller buncher in April 1992
at a forestry equipment show in Quitman Georgia.
- By 1995, Tigercat had two drive-to-tree feller bunchers, two track
feller bunchers, and two bunching shear models with distribution in Canada
and the United States.
- By 1997, Tigercat had a full product line to offer southern US dealers
with the addition of a knuckleboom loader and the industry's first
successful, serial production hydrostatic skidder.
- In 2000, Tigercat was well on its way to becoming the dominant player
in steep slope harvesting applications, offering a six-wheel drive skidder
and the L830 feller buncher. Both were destined to become flagship
products for the company. In addition, Tigercat entered the vegetation
management sector with its first mulcher carrier. The range of carriers
and attachments that have followed are crucial inputs to wildfire
mitigation strategies in many regions globally.
- By 2005, Tigercat was present in Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, Australia,
New Zealand, South Africa, UK and Sweden among other countries.
- In 2012 Tigercat had grown in 20 years from two to 1,000 employees and
introduced the 880 logger, the first in a series of versatile, forest duty
swing machines.
Today, Tigercat has the most complete full-tree product line-up in the
industry, along with a growing range of CTL harvesters, forwarders and
harvesting heads. Tigercat launched a new brand, TCi in 2022 and put the
TCi badge on its first dozer, the 920. In the last four years, the company
has been developing a line of material processing products with two
launches to date – the 6500 chipper and 6900 grinder. 2024 will see
a slew of new and exciting products introduced to the market.
Tigercat recently opened a new facility dedicated to the material
processing product line and is currently building an additional facility.
When complete the company will have over 1.4 million square feet
of manufacturing capacity. That's 130,000 square metres or 32
acres under roof. Over 160 dealer locations in 25 countries represent the
Tigercat and TCi brands, along with an extensive factory support network.
The company employs over 2,000.
One thing that hasn't changed over the years is Tigercat's dedication to
the customer base and its relentless pursuit of innovation and
improvement.
Source and image credit: Tigercat
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