 | JLG
Industries, Inc. |
JLG Industries, Inc. is the world's leading producer of construction
access equipment such as aerial work platforms and telehandlers. The JLG's diverse
product portfolio encompasses leading brands such as JLG aerial work platforms;
JLG, SkyTrak,
Lull
and Gradall
telehandlers; TRIPLE-L trailers; and an assortment of complementary accessories
that increase the versatility and efficiency of these products for end users.
Gold Coast rents
this JLG equipment.
The
initial product concept on which JLG was founded was a result of observations
made at construction and industrial sites where workers struggled with the inefficiencies
of scaffolding and ladders. The founders reasoned that a mechanical device to
place workers in the air quickly and safely would save countless dollars for industry.
The product needed was a mobile aerial work platform.
JLG's line of aerial work platforms include
Articulating
Boom Lifts, Electric
Boom Lifts, Mast-Style Boom Lifts, Towable
Boom Lifts, Telescopic
Boom Lifts, Electric
Scissor Lifts, Rough
Terrain Scissor Lifts, Vertical
Personnel Lifts and Stock Picking Products.
A small metal fabrication business in McConnellsburg, PA, named
Fulton Industries, Inc., was purchased in 1969 to develop the prototype required
to launch this new product concept. An original crew of 20 dedicated workers began
the tradition of pride and quality workmanship as they completed the original
JLG lift product in 1970. With a platform height of 27 feet, this original
aerial work platform embodied many basic design concepts still in use today, although
there have been countless mechanical, electrical and hydraulic design improvements.
Throughout
its history, JLG has continued to develop new machines and expand its product
offerings to meet the changing needs of its customers and end users.
Beginning
in 1999, with the acquisition of Gradall Industries, JLG expanded its product
portfolio to include telehandlers, a natural complement to aerial work platforms.
With the addition of telehandlers along with the rapid construction growth in
the late 1990's, JLG crossed the $1 billion sales threshold in fiscal year
2000.
JLG
further expanded its product portfolio in August 2003 when the Company acquired
the Lull and SkyTrak brand telehandlers, along with the military
telehandlers used primarily by the U.S. Army and Marine Corps.
