Joy Milestones

Joy's contributions to the underground mining industry in the areas of productivity, safety, and innovation are unequalled by any other company.

1919 Joy Machine Company was incorporated
1919 Joe Joy receives patent for mechanical loader
1919 Joe Joy receives patent for mechanical loader
1920 Joy debuts the first mechanical loader (model 4BU)
1924 Manufacturing plant moved to current location in Franklin, PA
1938 Joy ships its first shuttle car (model 2ET-1D)
1946 Joy Manufacturing Co. merges with Sullivan Machinery Co. and LeDel Conveyor & Manufacturing Co.
1948 Joy produces its first continuous miner (model 3JCM)
1948 Joy reveals the first high-seam shuttle car (model 10SC)
1969 Joy introduces the low-seam shuttle car (model 21SC)
1971 Joy ships its 10,000th shuttle car shipped
1972 Joy introduces the high-seam (model 12CM) and low-seam (model 14CM) continuous miners
1974 Joy acquires Smith & Harris Machine and Bedford Gear
1975 Joy unveils its first longwall shearer (model 1LS)
1976 Joy produces its first flexible conveyor train (model 1FCT-3BH)
1985 Joy ships its 1,000 12CM continuous miner
1986 Joy creates a low-seam shearer (model 4LS)
1987 Joy Technologies is purchased in a leveraged buy-out by Adler-Shakin
1987 Joy opens its liaison office in Beijing, China
1990 Joy develops a high-seam shearer (model 6LS)
1990 Joy produces its 1000th 14CM continuous miner
1994 Joy Mining Machinery is purchased by Harnischfeger Industries
1995 Joy adds the CRAM bolter equipment to its product line to its offerings
1995 Joy ships its 5,000th 10SC shuttle car
1997 Joy produces its first high-seam, high-voltage continuous miner (model 12CM27)
1997 Joy’s parent company purchases Longwall International and merges it into Joy
2000 Joy introduces three new machines including the new mid-seam, high-voltage continuous miner 14CM27
2001 Joy’s parent company, Harnischfeger Industries emerges from bankruptcy and is renamed Joy Global, Inc.
2001 Joy ships its 5,000th continuous miner
2001 Joy introduces it thinnest VFD shearer (model 7LS1A)
2002 Joy develops a high production flexible conveyor train (model 4FCT)
2003 Joy launches OPTIDRIVE for use in shuttle cars
2003 Joy opens its Baotou Service Center in Inner Mongolia, China
2004 Joy launches OPTIDRIVE for use in shearers, continuous miners and flexible conveyor trains
2004 Joy introduces machine-to-surface communications for room and pillar operations
2005 Joy introduces the Wethead System for continuous miner cutterheads
2006 Joy purchases the Stamler Group from Oldenburg adding the product lines of feeder-breakers, continuous haulage and battery haulers
2006 Joy opens its first OE manufacturing plant in Tianjin, China
2006 Joy Introduces FACEBOSS the new generation of control systems
2007 Joy Mining Machinery Ships 300th AC VFD Shuttle Car

Joy History

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