| 1919 |
Joy Machine Company was incorporated |
| 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) |
| 1968 |
Joy aquires Hart Electric |
| 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 (12CM) and low-seam (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 |
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Joy opens its liaison office in Beijing, China |
| 1990 |
Joy develops a high-seam shearer (model 6LS) |
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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 |
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Joy ships its 5,000th 10SC shuttle car |
| 1997 |
Joy produces its first high-seam, high-voltage continuous miner (model 12CM27) |
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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 14CM27 |
| 2001 |
Joy’s parent company, Harnischfeger Industries, emerges from bankruptcy and is renamed Joy Global, Inc. |
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Joy ships its 5,000th continuous miner |
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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 |
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Joy opens its Baotou Service Center in Inner Mongolia, China |
| 2004 |
Joy launches OPTIDRIVE for use in shearers, continuous miners and flexible conveyor trains |
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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 |
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Joy opens its first OE manufacturing plant in Tianjin, China |
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Joy Introduces FACEBOSS the new generation of control systems |
| 2007 |
Joy Mining Machinery Ships 300th AC VFD Shuttle Car |
| 2008 |
Joy completes acquisition of Wuxi Shengda extending it producting offerings in China |
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Joy ships the worlds largest roof supports (1750 tonnes, 2M wide) to Anglo's Moranbah Mine in Australia |
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Joy Global aquires Continental Global adding conveyor systems to it product lines |
| 2009 |
Joy ships is 500th AC VFD equipped shuttle car |
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Joy opens if first ever Smart Services Centre in South Africa |
| 2010 |
The 200th 7LS shearer produced was delievered to Shaanxi Coal Group in China |
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A Joy 12CM30 miner bolter set the Russian development record at Vorkutaugol group's Vorgashorskaya mine |
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Joy re-introduces the 14BU loader with the new 14BU27 |
| 2011 |
Joy ships the first 12ED25 entry development miner. |
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CMM ships its first roadheader to Donglian Mining Machinery |