2006 HAMMAR Lift Inc. was incorporated in the US, with Sales Office in Dana Point and production in Grand Terrace, California. The company is producing and marketing the self loading container trailer, or the Sideloader, under the brand name HAMMAR. The cranes and the trailer frames are manufactured in Sweden, but all other components to make a semi trailer; axles, hubs, wheels, brakes, suspension and lights are all US sourced quality components. This is done, so that on-the-road-service can be done at any qualified trailer repair shop anywhere in the US or in Canada. Trailers are finished and the cranes are mounted in California….. all run by Hammar Lift, Inc.

The story of the parent company, Hammar Maskin, is a classic story of entrepreneurship from the parts of Sweden traditionally known for small business.
It began when Bengt-Olof Hammar was studying at Chalmers University of Technology and was doing a dissartation about Sideloaders. He borrowed some start-up capital, designed a prototype, packed his Volkswagen Beetle with photo slides and documentation and started travelling the length and breadth of Sweden, trying to sell his product. Eventually, the owner of a haulage firm had the courage to buy the prototype. Bengt-Olof Hammar used the proceeds from the sale of the prototype to purchase raw material for four new Sideloaders. And that's how it all started.

The first factory was built in Olsfors in 1975. A modest building with a floor area of 3000 square feet. After only two years the factory had to be enlarged to three times that size.

Since then the factory has grown step by step. Today, Sideloaders are built in modern, spacious workshops, flexibly adapted for the work.