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Hako GmbH is a manufacturer of

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equipment and ultra-light commercial vehicles, headquartered in

Bad Oldesloe Bad Oldesloe () is a town located in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. It is the capital of the district of Stormarn. The area has been inhabited since Mesolithic times. The flint tools found here from that era (6000–4500 BC) ...

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with customers in about sixty countries. The company was founded on 24 December 1948; its name derives from Hans Koch & Sohn. It produces the Multicar line of vehicles.

History

In 1924 in

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, Hans Koch invented the world's first small mechanical

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, the ''Di-Mo-Ha''. He founded the company in

Pinneberg Pinneberg (; Northern Low Saxon: ''Pinnbarg'') is a town in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany. It is the capital of the district of Pinneberg and has a population of about 43,500 inhabitants. Pinneberg is located 18&nb ...

in 1948, and it began assembling and mass-producing cultivators and single-axle

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. In 1956 the company acquired a piece of land on Lübecker Straße in

; in the 1970s Hako moved to the industrial area on Hamburger Straße, where its headquarters are now located. It also has a technology center in

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. In 1998 Hako acquired sufficient shares in Multicar to become its controlling shareholder. As of 2010, Hako is a worldwide leader in outdoor cleaning equipment. In 2013 Hako was represented by a board member on the Cleaning Systems trade association of the VDMA ( :de:Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau), the largest industrial/engineering federation in Germany.

Products

Today Hako is one of the leading manufacturers of professional machines for internal cleaning, external cleaning and plant care. The company manufacturers severals types of polishing machines, carpet cleaning equipment, dust and water vacuums, scrubbers, sweepers, street-sweeping machines, single-axis motorized tools, small

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s (''Hakotrac''), and

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tractors. In addition, Hako offers cleaning and maintenance products for professional

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s. Worldwide distribution is carried out by a dozen separate companies, as well as general importers in over 60 countries around the world, with Hako-Werke GmbH as the main business of the Hako-Group.

Structure

Hako is a subsidiary of the Possehl Group. Hako encompasses six brands ( MinuteMan and PowerBoss in the

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), five factories, fifteen sales offices, and dealers in 25 EU countries (plus 20 additional countries internationally). The branch office of the Multicar subsidiary is located in

Waltershausen Waltershausen is a town in the south-western part of the district of Gotha in the state of Thuringia, Germany. Geography Geographic location Located on the verge of the Thuringian Basin just before the Thuringian Forest, Waltershausen is so ...

. The branch office of the Havelländische Maschinenbau subsidiary is located in the Glindow section of Werder an der Havel. In addition, the company has shares in six other subsidiaries.

References

External links

Official Hako page
{{Authority control Truck manufacturers of Germany Companies based in Schleswig-Holstein

History

Products

Structure

See also

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