Innovative Iron Award: ASV Track and Skid Steer Loaders
Exploration is the engine that drives innovation, so let’s go exploring. Let’s search through a year’s worth of creative ideas in the off-highway equipment industry and see if we can benchmark the innovative exploration of the American machine market. Over the last 12 months, global manufacturers from Caterpillar to Kubota have released compact machines that have set new standards for power, versatility, efficiency and design. Our editors have traveled across the globe to meet these manufacturers, operate their new products and give detailed reports and opinions both in print and on our website (compactequip.com). We sifted through the hundreds of models and brands released in 2015 and picked 19 units that set the bar for innovation. With this article, we salute those companies (from Komatsu to Case) that have changed the commercial equipment market over the last year with their unique, interesting and innovative machines, engines and technologies.
ASV Re-enters the Market with Track and Skid Steer Loaders
We’ve always been big fans of the ASV brand — one of the originators of the compact track loader (along with Takeuchi). The brand was bought up by Terex a few years ago, but now through a joint venture ASV loaders are back. ASV initially launched three new compact track loaders, produced at its Grand Rapids, Minn., manufacturing facility. These new machines are the first to be offered in the relaunch of the ASV Posi-Track line of compact track loaders. Not only that, but the ASV brand launched a line of skid steers for the first time ever as well. Now ASV offers five distinct models of compact track loaders in addition to the four new skid steer loaders, including both radial- and vertical-lift loaders.
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