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Since the earliest days of The Heil Co., manufacturing
technology has been one of the cornerstones of the
company’s reputation for quality and its vision for the
future.
It was a new technology called “electric welding” that
prompted Julius Heil to start the Heil Rail Joint Welding
Co. in 1901. In the years that followed, his company
continued to pioneer that technology with advances that
had profound impact on the industrialized world. Heil
was the first to use electric welding to make tanks; the
first to weld stainless steel; and the first to weld
aluminum.
Manufacturing technology spilled over into advances in hydraulics (the first
twin-arm hoist) and in the way the world picked up its garbage. Heil was the
first to design a refuse vehicle that actually compressed or packed it’s payload
– the Colecto-Pak in 1945 – and is the only company today with a refuse unit
designed as a semitrailer – the STARR System – with unmatched maneuverability
and trailerized bodies that detach from the primary collection truck.
Manufacturing technology continues to drive Heil excellence, with state-of-the-art fabrication
equipment and robotic welding taking center stage. Robotics by their very nature demand precision
in fabricated parts – if the parts don’t fit perfectly, the robot can’t do its job properly. From computer
design to finished product, every step of the manufacturing process today requires a level of
perfection our predecessors only dreamed about. The end result is the very exact, uncommonly
precise, quality built product that our customers expect when they see the Heil name.
Heil continues to expand the horizons of
robotic welding technology, asking our
robotic teams to tackle even tougher
assignments.
Aided by the precision of plasma steel cutting equipment and the
installation of our laser steel fabricator in 2002 (one of the largest in North
America), Heil will continue to set new standards for quality just as we
have for over 100 years.
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