Linamar: MacDon, Salford and Bourgault farm equipment
Linamar agriculture: MacDon draper headers and windrowers, Salford tillage and fertiliser application tools, Bourgault air seeders and air carts.
Linamar is a Canadian industrial group whose agriculture business comprises MacDon harvesting equipment, Salford tillage and application tools and Bourgault seeders.
Canada · Agriculture business of Linamar (MacDon, Salford, Bourgault)
Linamar is a Canadian industrial group with several businesses, and agriculture is one of them. Its agricultural brands are MacDon, Salford and Bourgault, each specialised in a different stage of crop production. Salford Group, which has made conventional tillage equipment since 1978, was acquired by Linamar Corporation in 2022 and has production facilities in Cornelia, Georgia, in the United States and in Ontario and Manitoba in Canada.
Together the three brands follow the crop through the season. Salford covers tillage and fertiliser application, Bourgault specialises in seeding systems such as air seeders and air carts, and MacDon supplies harvesting equipment including draper headers and self-propelled windrowers. A draper header uses belts to carry cut crop evenly into the combine, while a windrower cuts the crop and lays it in swaths to dry before pickup. Each machine has to match the combine or tractor it works with, including hydraulics and transport arrangements.
Size of the business
Linamar's agricultural business operates through three specialised brands, and Salford alone reports four manufacturing facilities in North America. That facility count covers Salford only, not the whole Linamar group.
Are MacDon, Salford and Bourgault separate companies?
They are separate brands, and all three belong to Linamar's agriculture business.
Does all Linamar revenue come from agriculture?
No. Linamar also has other industrial businesses, so its group-wide figures cover much more than agriculture.
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