Aebi

Aebi is a Swiss manufacturer of specialty vehicles for public works and agriculture. Founded in 1883 in the form of a joint-stock company is headquartered in Burgdorf.

Aebi represents slope implement carrier, multipurpose vehicles and motor mowers ago for the professional user. The machines are manufactured in Switzerland and exported to over 50 countries around the world. The company was located since its founding in 1893 as a workshop in Burgdorf until 2006 in the family of Aebi family. 2006 Aebi Group was sold to a business group headed by Peter Spuhler and 2007 merged with the German Aebi Schmidt Group Winter service and municipal engineering.

The Aebi Schmidt Holding AG employs more than 1,200 people and generated 2012 sales of 290 million euros. The company is wholly privately owned. Majority shareholder with a share of 57.59 percent, the PCS Holding AG by Peter Spuhler. Further 38.87 per cent owned by the Gebuka AG and 3.54 percent in the possession of other Directors and senior management members.

The Aebi Group and Schmidt group now make her both worldwide distributed agricultural, municipal and specialized equipment. Among the business include garden equipment winter and summer service, airport technology, agricultural engineering and railway engineering. The two company groups occurred since the merger under the name Aebi Schmidt Holding AG.

History

Johann Ulrich Aebi founded in 1883 in Burgdorf, a workshop for the manufacture of turbines, fire engines, tractors, seeding and horses. The workshop was expanded a year later to an industrial company with series production. The original product line consisted of agricultural auxiliary machinery and component parts for pumps and fire engines. 1895 started Aebi with a replica of the McCormick Reaper the production of the first motorized agricultural machinery. As of 1910, threshers, added feed and lifts pliers into production and in 1915 was the tentative use of a 4-wheel Mähtraktors. The production of 3-wheel Mähtraktors was started in 1929.

Subsequently, the company concentrated on the production of small hand-powered mowers and mowers with internal combustion engines. Later, agricultural transporters supplemented the range. The most important development step, the company was specializing in hillside devices. In 1954 with the production of the first Aebi single-axle tractor - trailer driving axle with the entry into the slope mechanization. The prototype of the Terratrac TT 77, a two-axle hangtauglichem was first presented in 1976.

With the 1998 takeover of the Rapidly agricultural and communal GesmbH in Swan mountain ( Austria ) could also be expanded to include landscape equipment product range. The assumption of MFA Maschinenfabrik in high village ( Switzerland ) in 1999 extended the product range to include sweepers.

Since the early 80s, the company pursued a course of international expansion: 1981, Aebi vehicles and machinery GmbH was founded in Kematen in Tirol ( Austria ). In 1995 the Aebi France S.à.r.l. Genas (France) and 1998 Aebi North America Inc. in Richmond (VA / USA).