This year Bobcat
celebrates the 60th Anniversary of both the company and the Bobcat skid-steer
loader.
Sixty years ago,
Melroe Manufacturing Company, the forerunner to Bobcat Company, introduced a
compact front-end loader that evolved quickly into the M-400, the world’s first
true skid-steer loader.
The M-400 later
adopted what became the world famous ‘Bobcat’ brand and its success created the
global compact equipment industry we know today.
Over the last sixty
years, Bobcat has gone through many changes, but one thing has not changed:
Bobcat’s commitment to outstanding quality, workmanship and innovation that has
helped to maintain its market leadership, so that one in every two skid-steer loaders
sold is still a Bobcat machine.
Bobcat products have
changed the way the world works and today the Bobcat brand and influence is as
strong as ever.
In 2018, the range
of compact loaders including skid-steer, compact track and all-wheel steer
models that Bobcat has developed over the last six decades, continues to
dominate the market, combined with a host of attachments to meet every specific
customer’s needs.
Bobcat has also
diversified its portfolio with a full line-up of compact excavators and
telehandlers that match the same tough internal requirements on reliability and
productivity that Bobcat applies to the company’s loaders.
