Kohler Engine Information
Kohler Engines is a division of the Kohler Company, a multi-product international firm that was established in Wisconsin before the turn of the 20th century. According to the Kohler Engines website, the history of Kohler-manufactured engines stretches back to 1920. Does this Spark an idea?
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History
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The Kohler Company was created in 1873 in Wisconsin when Austrian immigrant John Michael Kohler took control of a foundry there. Originally an iron casting venture, the company got into the bathtub business and has been primarily a plumbing and plumbing fixture firm in the ensuing century. The Kohler Company was nearly 50 years old before it marketed its first engine.
Manufacture
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In 1948 Kohler opened its first small engine factory to manufacture both diesel and gasoline engines for industrial purposes. Most engines early on were built for manufacturing operations, but the company was making engines for commercial lawn and outdoors equipment, too, according to a Kohler Engines spokesperson. In 1966 Kohler delivered its one-millionth small engine. In 1968 the firm began making engines for snowmobiles.
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Contemporary Expansion
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In 2007, Kohler Engines joined forces with a Chinese manufacturer to develop, manufacture, sell and distribute engines under the Kohler-YinXiang name. 2007 also began producing a line of small-engine walk-behind mowers for the consumer market -- its first consumer mowers. Other modern Kohler engines are built for power generation, welding, recreation and other uses. Kohler's engine line expanded in 2008 to include engines in a size range of 4 to 65 horsepower.
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