Joy Milestones

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)
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 (model 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