Ottawa Trucks, later renamed Kalmar Ottawa, is a

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-based company which is the largest manufacturer of

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s in North America, with over 55,000 produced. In 1990 the Ottawa Truck Corporation acquired Beck Fire Apparatus of Cloverdale, CA, which continued to operate as an independent division until going out of business in 1992. Ottawa Trucks was purchased by their main competitor, Finnish

Sisu Terminal Systems Sisu Terminal Systems Oy (STS) was a Finland, Finnish terminal tractor producer. The production began in 1969 as a part of Sisu Auto, Suomen Autoteollisuus (SAT) and the first vehicles were based on lorry components. The portfolio grew by time. Th ...

, in 1993. In 1997 Sisu and Swedish terminal truck manufacturer Kalmar Industries were both incorporated into the Partek Corporation, and soon thereafter the "Sisu" badge was discontinued on terminal tractors. In 2015, Ottawa partnered with

Orange EV Orange EV is an American manufacturer of electric terminal tractors, also known as yard trucks, based in Kansas City, Kansas. Founded in 2012, the company was the first in the United States to commercially deploy electric terminal trucks, which ...

, a

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-based manufacturer of electric terminal tractors, to retrofit its yard trucks with

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. The companies decided to collaborate due to the demand for emission-free logistics.

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