Lindner Traktorenwerk GmbH is an Austrian

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manufacturer. Lindner is a family company based in

Kundl Kundl is a market town in the Kufstein district in the Austrian state of Tyrol. Geography Kundl is situated 7.70 km west of Wörgl as well as 18.30 km southwest of Kufstein at the southern side of the Inn River and is made up of 4 part ...

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that has produced

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and transporters for mountain and grassland management and for forestry and municipal applications since 1948. The company was the first manufacturer of a four-wheel-drive tractor in Austria.

History

Hermann Lindner was born on 5 November 1905 in

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. He founded the company in 1946 initially to produce gang saws, but in 1948 exhibited his first tractor, the S 14, at the Vienna Autumn Fair. Lindner constructed more tractor models with different engines and special equipment and in 1953, the company introduced the first Austrian tractor with four-wheel drive. In 1956 a new production hall was built, employing over 150 people. Every month, around 70 tractors left the factory in Kundl, mainly for Austrian customers, but also for export to Spain, France and Italy. On 19 October 1957 Hermann Lindner died in hospital in

Wörgl Wörgl () is a city in the Austrian state of Tyrol, in the Kufstein district. It is from the international border with Bavaria, Germany. Population Transport Wörgl is an important railway junction between the line from Innsbruck to Munich, and ...

from the effects of a serious car accident, but the company continued to thrive under the direction of his wife Stephanie, and his children Hermann Lindner, Loisi Sappl and Rudolf Lindner.

Models

The first Lindner tractor, the S 14, was produced between 1948 and 1950. Powered by a 1330 cc engine, it was joined by a range of more powerful tractors, the JW 15 (1949), the JW 20 (1950) and JW 35 (1953). The Bauernfreund (BF) brand was introduced in 1953, and would be produced until 1985. The BF 250, 320 and 450 were introduced in 1967 with 3-cylinder

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water-cooled engines and the A-210 ZF power train. The first transporter (Muli) T 3500 followed a year later. In 1969 a special mountain tractor with small dual tire was developed. In January 1985, the BF series was replaced by a completely new tractor generation. In June, all of production was turned towards the new series, and all previously built models were superseded by new models, the Lindner 1450, 1500, 1600, 1650 and 1700 with Steyr gearbox, Perkins diesel engines, all available with four-wheel drive. 1996 saw the launch of the Geotrac 50, 60, 70 and 80. In 1999 the larger Geotracs 100 was introduced with . By 2005, around 10,000 units had been produced. In 2001 the Geotrac 60, 70 and 80 were replaced by the new models Geotrac 65, 75 and 85, and in 2002 the Geotrac 83 and 93 with a new ZF-powershift appeared. The Geotrac 73 A designed with a high torque motor and low center of gravity for extreme ( "Alpine") ratios followed in 2003. The 10,000th Geotrac and 1,000th Unitrac left the plant in 2005. 2007 Geotrac series 4 was introduced (). In 2009 the company launched the first model of the GEOTRAC Series 4 Alpin, the Geotrac 94. The following year, the Series 4 Alpin was expanded with the Geotrac 64, 74 and 84. In 2015, the Lindner Lintrac, the first tractor with a

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, was put on the market. Lindner T 3500S

Environmental activity

Lindner was the first company in Austria to receive a low energy certificate for a company building, in 2010. The Innovation Centre, opened in 2014, uses triple glazing and energy-saving components such as

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enable the building to achieve standards which almost compare to a

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and is powered by a

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solar array.

Lindner today

Lindner is still 100% owned by the family and based in Kundl. Revenue in 2015 was €74 million, with annual production running to about 1500 vehicles. It is third in the tractor market in Austria after

Steyr Tractor Steyr Tractor (properly called Steyr Landmaschinentechnik AG) is an Austrian agricultural machinery manufacturer. The company was founded in 1864 in St. Valentin, Austria, and manufactures tractors .It was part of the Steyr-Daimler-Puch conglomer ...

and New Holland with has a market share of 13%, while Austria's three best selling tractors in 2015 were the Geotracs 74, 64 and 84, all of which were produced in Kundl. Exports are about 52% of production, primarily to Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France, Slovenia, Netherlands and Norway.

External links

Website for Lindner Traktorenwerk GesmbH

MicroSite for Lindner Lintrac

References

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