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can be found word-wid
Since than mid -1960S, expansion,
has been an integral part of Helm.
Welding �(19S3) Limited. From a
one person operation, the manufae.-
turer of farm equipment has
expanded to where it employs 4
people and markets its equipmeifl
.nationally -and internationally. All
.pquipment bears the registered
trade name LUCK/NOW..
•Art. Helm was .the man; .who
started the company and watched it
grow,from a .tledgling on -furan'
business • to ,the large site.. itsits on
today on Huron 'County Road 1.
south ofLuc;knuw.
En early years, -business.
centered. around building.'
snowblowers, - gravity
boxes and wagons:
in• 1974 a new line was
adiled ,- bulk feed storage tanks,
The snowblower. part• of the busi-
ness continued•to grow and .as the
building expanded;. Helm realized
'he needed another line to "fill i.n.
some ,produ. tion • tirrie;'`8riter the..
mixer, feeder wagons...Thi.s.was in
'the. early. 70s when Ira says' all
the mixers corning- into the•loca1
,area were Manufactured in the
mid-w.es .USA.,
Although hs ``Iad great faith; in
.;the. quality of Eiji.; :.product, the
mixer feeder wagons were slow to
take off.
. By the mid '80s, an increase in
mixer feeder sales and snowblow-
ers required another .expansion in
the building site, This was when
the gram buggies was 'introduced
to the production line, As. sales of
the mixer feeders took off in • the
'90s, Helm' decided to drop the
bulk feed tank production.
Today .the business's highest
'dollar volume is in mixer wagons.
Snowblower sales are dependent,
uponthatyear's weather..A hard
winter brings about a rush of
name LUCK/NOW can be found
iri other countries such as ;Peru,
Argentina, Mexico, Japan and
Costa`Rtga.: .
Helm. attributes the success of
the business to having,a good priid-
uct, dedicated employees. a good
business relationship with dealer's•
and.good.sales^reps. '
The agri-business has been. griod ,
for Helm Welding,' biit it's a twd
way.stit t: the Huron County niian
ufact-urer has beengood for'the
agri-business and employment in
the Lut:know area,. .
Helm,Welding t (.983) limited
is at R. R. 2, Luckriow, phone 529.
' 7627.
orders
Quality crafttnan-
ship built "right's
here in:.Lucknouv,
Ontario.
Helms, also --manufactures. t quip
anent for Alpha laual,'
The company has. gone troll)-
'Making ' 100' blowers a year, t:o.
where, .they'can produce about a.
hundred everytwe days with a full
' line>in production..
Canada is still the; mar:ri: market'
for. Helm Welding, however, "about
40 per. cent of overall :sales is now
in the. United. States: But 'tite.:trade
Mixer Feeder • `P' Series.:
Helen Welding (1983).Limited °.'