Tigercat Industries has built and shipped its 30,000th machine in January 2024, just over 30 years into its existence. From its beginnings in 1992 when Tigercat had a single product, very little dealer representation, and produced just a handful of machines, the company has grown steadily, expanding both its production capacity and product breadth.
Quick facts about Tigercat
- Tigercat debuted the 726 feller buncher in April 1992 at a forestry equipment show in Quitman, Georgia.
- By 1995, Tigercat had two drive-to-tree feller bunchers, two track feller bunchers, and two bunching shear models with distribution in Canada and the United States.
- By 1997, Tigercat had a full product line to offer southern U.S. dealers with the addition of a knuckleboom loader and the industry's first successful, serial production hydrostatic skidder.
- In 2000, Tigercat offered a six-wheel drive skidder and the L830 feller buncher. Both were destined to become flagship products for the company. In addition, Tigercat entered the vegetation management sector with its first mulcher carrier. The range of carriers and attachments that have followed are crucial inputs to wildfire mitigation strategies in many regions globally.
- By 2005, Tigercat was present in Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the U.K., and Sweden among other countries.
- In 2012 Tigercat had grown in 20 years from two to 1,000 employees and introduced the 880 logger.
In 2024, Tigercat has a full-tree product line-up, along with a growing range of CTL harvesters, forwarders, and harvesting heads. Tigercat launched a new brand, TCi in 2022 and put the TCi badge on its first dozer, the 920. In the last four years, the company has been developing a line of material processing products with two launches to date – the 6500 chipper and the 6900 grinder.
Tigercat recently opened a new facility dedicated to the material processing product line and is currently building an additional facility. When complete, the company will have over 1.4 million square feet of manufacturing capacity. That's 130,000 square metres or 32 acres under the roof. Over 160 dealer locations in 25 countries represent the Tigercat and TCi brands, along with a factory support network.
