Hyster

Hyster is an American manufacturing company specializing in forklifts and other materials-handling equipment.

The name "Hyster" was allegedly derived from a term commonly used by logging workers in the Pacific Northwest at the end of the 19th century.

Through the 1960s and 1970s Hyster was a major force in these types of machinery in America and they produced a wide range of models with many successful design concepts.

Hyster was eventually absorbed into Bomag America/Compaction America (now known as HYPAC) and some models including a small articulated rubber tire roller sold under the Hypac name is an original descendant of the Hyster machine.

Hyster's home office was in Portland, Oregon, but they also had manufacturing plants in Berea,[3] Danville, Peoria and Kewanee Illinois, the Netherlands, China, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Craigavon Northern Ireland and South Africa, and a specialist engineering department in Irvine, Scotland.