1902 Founded the Manitowoc Company.
1925 Entered the lattice-boom crane industry.
1945 Entered the commercial refrigeration equipment industry.
1964 Purchased the name and manufacturing right of the Kodiak brand ice machine.
1968 Patented a breakthrough evaporator.
1969 First to offer 2 and 3-year warranties.
1970 First to convert to alternative refrigerant.
1971 First to develop an automatic cleaning system in ice machine industry.
1994 Invested 4.15 million dollars to establish Manitowoc (Hangzhou) Refrigeration Co., Ltd.
1995 Purchased all the shares of Kolpak/McCall Company.
1995 First to pass ISO 9001 Quality System Certification in the U.S. Ice Machine Industry.
2000 Manitowoc (Hangzhou) Refrigeration Co., Ltd. became the first to pass
ISO 9001 Quality System Certification in Chinese Ice Machine Industry.
2003 Invested 20 million dollars to establish Manitowoc (China) Refrigeration Co., Ltd., which has become the largest production base of Manitowoc Foodservice Group outside the USA.
2005 Completed construction of Manitowoc China factory in Hangzhou Binjiang district