Private company
Hyster Company
Logo: Hyster, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons3
American manufacturing company
Hyster is an American manufacturing company specializing in forklifts and other materials-handling equipment. Hyster was founded in 1929 as the Willamette-Ersted Company in Portland, Oregon. The company was purchased in 1989 by NACCO Industries, Inc. and became a part of NACCO Materials Handling Group.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
Overview
- Websitehyster.com
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Hyster is an American manufacturing company specializing in forklifts and other materials-handling equipment. Hyster was founded in 1929 as the Willamette-Ersted Company in Portland, Oregon. The company was purchased in 1989 by NACCO Industries, Inc. and became a part of NACCO Materials Handling Group. NACCO spun off the materials handling business in 2012 as Hyster-Yale Materials Handling, Inc., which continues to market products under the Hyster brand name.2
Products and brands
- forklift
Listed on Wikidata.1
Links
- Websitehyster.com1
- WikipediaHyster
- More imagesWikimedia Commons
- WikidataQ4040918
Sources
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- 1WikidataHyster Company on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaHyster Company on Wikipedia
- 3Wikimedia CommonsHyster Company logo by Hyster, CC BY-SA 4.0