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Terex company history timeline

1986

Clark Materials Handling continued to build forklifts in Korea--in a partnership formed with Samsung in 1986--to serve the Asian market.

1987

Northwest Engineering exercised that option in 1987.

1988

By 1988, Industry Week reported that BCP held a 40 percent share of the market in which its products were sold.

The next move for Northwest Engineering came in 1988 when it bought Unit Rig and Equipment Company which was also involved in bankruptcy proceedings.

1990

By September, the wholly owned subsidiary was doing well enough for Terex to pre-pay $19 million in debt, and in 1990, Terex opened a new 100,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Indianola, Iowa, to build foam-insulated refrigerated vans.

1991

Terex added Mark Industries to its Heavy Equipment Group in 1991.

At the end of 1991, Terex had long-term debt of $189.3 million.

1992

Terex posted another loss of $61.1 million on revenues of $1.01 billion in 1992, a year in which the company teetered on the brink of bankruptcy.

1997

1997: Crane operations are bolstered through acquisitions of Simon Engineering plc's Simon Access division and Baraga Products Inc.

1998

The purchase of Holland Lift International B.V. in May 1998 added another manufacturer of aerial work platforms, while the July 1998 purchase of the American Crane Corporation brought Terex a maker of lattice boom cranes.

1998: O & K Mining GmbH, a German maker of large hydraulic mining shovels, is acquired.

1999

In July 1999 the company acquired Powerscreen International plc, a maker of crushing and screening equipment for the quarrying, construction, and demolition industries based in Dungannon, Northern Ireland.

2000

During 2000 Terex sold its truck-mounted forklift businesses, most of which had been acquired only the previous year, to Partek Corporation of Finland for $144 million.

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Founded
1986
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