Success grows right along
with capacity in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
The owner of a small but
very successful company once remarked, "The challenge
is to see how big you can get before it affects your
quality." We are proud that our product line features
some of the best available technologies and some of the
cleanest running outdoor power equipment available today.
Looking back, our beginnings here seem quite humble.
STIHL opened its first United States plant in Virginia
Beach in 1974. At that time, the only product we assembled
here
was one chain saw. Today,
we manufacture almost 200 different models of chain saws
and power tools. That first plant was home to 50 employees;
now we keep roughly 40 times that many men and women
very busy.
And back
in 1974, we had
just 20,000 square feet under roof; now we have more
than 1,000,000 square feet on a 90+ acre campus. And
with future expansion plans already being drawn up, we're
not finished. Recently, STIHL began manufacturing guide
bars for the first time in
the U.S. in a new facility on the company's Virginia
Beach campus.
All told, STIHL Incorporated ships product to more than
80 countries. But numbers don't tell the whole story.
STIHL is ISO 9001 and ISO 14001
certified, meaning we
meet rigid international
manufacturing, environmental and quality standards. Our
products consistently win quality and engineering design
awards.
We're committed to developing powerful, fuel-efficient
outdoor power equipment while using production practices
that are environmentally responsible. After all, taking
care of nature is the very basis of everything we do. |
