Terex

The origins of Terex date to 1933, when the Euclid Company was founded by George A. Armington to build hauling dump trucks. In 1953, General Motors purchased Euclid, expanding the business to include more than half of all U.S. off-highway dump truck sales.

Due to a 1968 Justice Department ruling, GM was required to stop manufacturing and selling off-highway trucks in the United States for four years and divest the Euclid brand. GM coined the "Terex" name in 1968 from the Latin words "terra" (earth) and "rex" (king) for its construction equipment products and trucks not covered by the ruling.

After the German company IBH Holding AG acquired its Terex division in 1980^[8] and filed for bankruptcy three years later,^[9] GM regained ownership of the brand and reorganized it into units located in Scotland, Brazil, and the USA.^{[citation needed]}

American businessman Randolph W. Lenz bought Terex USA in 1986, exercising an option to purchase Terex Equipment Ltd the following year. In 1988, Lenz merged his primary construction equipment asset, Northwest Engineering Company, into Terex Corporation, making Terex the parent entity.^[10]

Incorporated in 1986, Terex Corporation was listed on the NYSE five years later,^[11] growing under the leadership of Ron DeFeo. In 1997, it acquired mining business from O&K, including the world's largest hydraulic excavator RH 400, later produced as Cat 6090;^[12] in 2010, it sold that business to Bucyrus.^[13]

Having acquired Terex's line of heavy haul trucks in December 2013, Volvo Construction Equipment (VCE) rebranded the business as Rokbak in September 2021.^[10] Succeeding DeFeo as president and CEO of Terex in 2015, John L. Garrison, Jr. further transformed the business through acquisitions, new-business launches, and divestitures.^[14]

In January 2024, the firm named Simon Meester, formerly President of Genie and the company's Aerial Work Platforms business segment, as Terex president and CEO.^[10] In October 2025, Terex announced that it planned to merge with REV Group, and that it was looking to spin off its Genie line of aerial lifts.^[15]

On February 2, 2026, Terex announced that it had completed its merger with REV Group.^[16]

Per a Company SEC filing on May 2, 2025,^[6] effective in the first quarter of 2025 Terex reported its business in three reportable segments: (1) Materials Processing ("MP"), (2) Aerials, and (3) Environmental Solutions ("ES"):

MP manufactures crushers, washing systems, screens, trommels, apron feeders, material handlers, pick and carry cranes, rough terrain cranes, tower cranes, wood processing, biomass and recycling equipment, concrete mixer trucks and pavers, and conveyors. Customers use these products in construction, infrastructure and recycling projects, quarrying and mining, landscaping and biomass production, material handling, maintenance, moving materials on rugged terrain, lifting construction material, and placing material at point of use. MP brands include Terex, Powerscreen, Fuchs, EvoQuip, Canica, Cedarapids, CBI, Simplicity, Franna, Terex Ecotec, Finlay, ProAll, ZenRobotics, Terex Washing Systems, Terex MPS, Terex Jaques, Terex Advance, ProStack, Terex Bid-Well, MDS, MARCO, Green-Tec, Magna, and Terex Recycling Systems.^[17]

Aerials manufactures mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPS) and telehandlers. Customers use these products to construct and maintain industrial, commercial, institutional and residential facilities, for purposes within the entertainment industry, and infrastructure projects. Aerials markets principally under the Genie brand.^[6]

ES manufactures waste, recycling, and utility equipment including refuse collection bodies, hydraulic cart lifters, automated carry cans, compaction, balers, recycling equipment, digger derricks, insulated aerial devices, self-propelled articulating insulated booms, cameras with integrated smart technology, and waste hauler software solutions. Customers use these products in the solid waste and recycling industry, and for construction and maintenance of transmission and distribution lines, tree trimming, and foundation drilling applications. ES brands include Heil, Marathon, Curotto-Can, Bayne Thinline, Parts Central, digital solutions 3rd Eye and Soft-Pak, and Terex Utilities.^[18][6]

On October 8, 2024, Terex completed the acquisition of the Environmental Solutions Group (ESG) from Dover Corporation for $2 billion.^[20] ESG is an integrated equipment manufacturer serving the solid waste and recycling industries. As of December 2024, Terex marketed under more than 30 customer-facing brands.^[17] Terex was built through a series of acquisitions, internal start-ups, and divestitures over the years. These and other actions helped to shape the current business portfolio:

Acquisitions

• 1999 – Powerscreen, Finlay, Simplicity, Franna^[21][22][23]
• 2001 – Canica, Jaques,^[24] Bid-Well, CMI Roadbuilding^[25]
• 2002 – Genie, Fuchs, Advance Mixer^[26]
• 2015 – CBI, Ecotec^[27]
• 2020-2023 – MDS,^[28] Steelweld,^[29] ZenRobotics,^[30] ProAll,^[31] MARCO^[32]
• 2024 – Environmental Solutions Group (ESG)

Terex Franna (left) and Terex Powerscreen (right) at EXCON 2025, BIEC

In 1992 American businessman Richard Carl Fuisz reported to the Operations Subcommittee of the House Committee on Agriculture that he witnessed the construction of military vehicles at a Terex owned facility in Scotland in 1987. Fuisz alleged that Terex employees reported that the vehicles were manufactured at the request of the CIA and British Intelligence and were destined for service within the Iraqi military.^[41] Terex denied the allegations and, in 1992, filed a libel complaint against Fuisz and Seymour M. Hersh, writer of an article in The New York Times covering Fuisz's allegations. After several investigations, including a 16-month-long federal task force investigation, no legal charges were filed against Terex. The New York Times, in an editor's note on 7 December 1995, said, "The article should never have suggested that Terex has ever supplied Scud missile launchers to Iraq, and The Times regrets any damage that may have resulted to Terex from any false impression the article may have caused."^[42]