The business Pinguely-Haulotte was recently named the Haulotte Group in the year 2005. The change in name was the first time in 124 years the name has not included Pinguely. The Haulotte Group is popular for manufacturing articulated work platforms, telescopic work platforms, scissor lifts, trailer mounted work platforms and vertical mast-work platforms.
The Haulotte Group obtained Bil-Jax, Inc. on July 24th, 2008. Bil-Jax is the largest US scaffold manufacturer. At present, Haulotte Group has one factory in Spain, three plants in France, one in Romania, near Pitesti City. There is a new plant that opened during the winter of the year 2008. This plant is 1 km away from the existing factory near Pitesti City within the County of Arges. The factory is called Arges II. There are also two factories within the United States, the former Bill-Jax.
Pinguely
Alexandre Pinguely formed the Pinguely Company in 1881 within Lyon, France. At first, they constructed steam engines. The company eventually evolved into making machines. 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. In terms of numbers produced, Pinguely was not a major steam engine manufacturer. The company provided a steam locomotive to the Chemin de Fer du Haut-Rhone in 1930 and by the year 1932, Pinguely started manufacturing steam shovels. Production of steam locomotives was stopped and the company started focusing instead on mobile cranes and making earthmoving machinery instead.
Haulotte
Arthur Hualotte established the beginnings of Haulotte during the year 1924, when it was known as Ateliers de Construction A. Haulotte. This business specialized in the production of aerial platforms, mobile cranes and derricks.
Pinguely-Haulotte
It was decided that the actual manufacturing was to be sub-contracted to Pinguely-Haulotte. They were to be responsible for the engineering and marketing, research, design and development. All products were abandoned by Saubot so that the business can focus on self-propelled aerial work platforms.