Gradall Industries Inc. has received congratulations and a number of official proclamations from local, state and federal officials marking the company’s 80th year of manufacturing hydraulic excavators in Ohio.
First introduced in 1947 in Cleveland by the Warner & Swasey Co., Gradall excavator manufacturing was moved to New Philadelphia in 1950 when production outgrew the Cleveland facility. Since then, all manufacturing, engineering, sales, parts and product support have been located in New Philadelphia, where versatile Gradall excavators have undergone continual refinement.
When other excavators were using cables for boom movements, Gradall was the first to use hydraulic power and, since then, every Gradall ever produced has come out of the New Philadelphia facility, which now employs about 400 people and has become a leading corporate citizen in Tuscarawas County. Today, Gradall is the only excavator produced solely in the United States…