In 2016, Amity Technology, one of the world’s leading innovators in the sugarbeet equipment industry, is marking 20 years in business.
Based in Fargo, ND, Amity Technology offers a full line of sugarbeet harvesting equipment and markets its products worldwide, with special emphasis on North America and the former Soviet Union.
Amity Technology follows in the proud tradition of a family that has been involved in the manufacturing business in North Dakota for more than 70 years. Howard and Brian Dahl, the founders of Amity, are grandsons of E. G. Melroe, the founder of the Melroe Company, which developed the Bobcat skid-steer loader. After that company was sold in 1970, Eugene Dahl and his brother-in-law, Les Melroe, bought control of Steiger Tractor. It became the leading manufacturer of four-wheel-drive tractors in the world and was sold to Case Corporation in 1986. Howard and Brian Dahl incorporated Concord, Inc. in 1977, which became the leading manufacturer in the United States of air drills, used primarily for the planting of small grains and oil seed crops on large acreage.
Concord had a particularly strong market in the CIS (former Soviet Union) and sold more than 600 Concord Air Drills into that marketplace. The Concord, Inc. was sold to Case Corporation in 1996.
Case did not purchase all the assets of Concord and the remaining assets were used to launch Amity Technology. The heart of Amity Technology has been its sugarbeet equipment line, the leader in North America in harvesting equipment for sugarbeets.
Today, the Amity equipment line includes sugarbeet harvesters, defoliators and a beet cart. Over the span of these 20 years, Amity has produced more than 1,200 sugarbeet harvesters for the domestic market and almost 1,000 sugarbeet harvesters have been exported to other countries. Amity has also received numerous awards, including Fargo-Moorhead’s Business of the Year, North Dakota Exporter of the Year, and INC 500’s list of America’s Fastest Growing Companies. Amity was the first North Dakota company to receive SBA’s Region 6 Exporter of the Year.
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