MacDon Industries Ltd. is a

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manufacturer of specialty agricultural equipment. The company was established by Joe MacDonald (1924–1991) of

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in 1970, having purchased Killbery Industries Ltd., which had been manufacturing

swather A swather (North America), or windrower (Australia and rest of world), is a farm implement that cuts hay or small grain crops and forms them into a windrow for drying. They may be self-propelled with an engine, or drawn by a tractor and p ...

s (windrowers) since 1949. With an factory in the Murray Industrial Park in

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, the company employed 1,350 people in 2015, and sold its products worldwide. Besides selling under their own name, the company also manufactures agricultural equipment for other companies including

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, producing self-propelled windrowers, headers and pull-type mowers, sold under the John Deere brand. On December 14, 2017,

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Corp. of Guelph,

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announced its intent to purchase MacDon for approximately 1.2 billion dollars.Linamar (December 14, 2017)
Linamar to Acquire the MacDon Group of Companies, a Global Harvesting Specialist, to Further Diversity & Grow
(Press release). Accessed January 3, 2017. Prior to its sale, the president and

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of the company was Gary Giesbrecht.

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{{Commons category, MacDon Companies based in Winnipeg Agriculture companies of Canada