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#Post#: 43098--------------------------------------------------
The end of Solo
By: Chainsawrepair Date: July 19, 2014, 4:01 pm
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Just read this.
The explanation
Article dated Solo 1958-2014.
Important changes at the SOLO Kleinmotoren GmbH
The Swabian medium-sized company AL-KO GERÄTE GMBH is
strengthening its Garden + Hobby division in the product groups
of chainsaws, motor trimmers and gardening devices with the
acquisition of the Sindelfingen-based SOLO Kleinmotoren GmbH.
“The quality SOLO products, with their tradition-rich and
strongly specialized brand, perfectly match our philosophy
‘Quality for Life’. With the integration of SOLO we strengthen
our specialized dealer network and competencies, especially in
the area of gasoline chainsaws and motor trimmers”, says AL-KO
Board Member Stefan Kober.
Subject to the required antitrust law approval, as part of an
asset deal AL-KO will acquire the complete range of the product
group “Gardening and Forestry Equipment” from SOLO as well as
the associated trademark rights. As of now SOLO Kleinmotoren
GmbH will entirely concentrate on plant protection equipment and
angle grinders. Andreas Emmerich, manager at SOLO: “With AL-KO
we have found a buyer who will continue the SOLO brand for
gardening and forestry equipment through specialist dealers in
our tradition and with our name, but will make it even stronger
with new ideas and developments. In future we will focus
ourselves on plant protection equipment, with which SOLO has
been successful since 1948, and on our new product line of
cut-off machines. These two product groups will continue to be
developed, produced and distributed globally under the SOLO
brand from our location in Sindelfingen.” For the distribution
of plant protection equipment in Germany and France AL-KO will
support SOLO Kleinmotoren GmbH within the framework of a
co-operation agreement. These are steps which set the course for
further partnership co-operation between the companies in the
future.
From the middle of the year the gardening and forestry equipment
from SOLO will be produced at the Austrian production location
of Obdach in Styria, where AL-KO already manufactures high
quality lawnmowers and tractors. In this way the product quality
and flexible product supply can also be guaranteed in the
future.
With the SOLO gardening and forestry equipment AL-KO is aiming
for a substantial increase in dealer sales in the future. The
existing AL-KO dealer range will be expanded with saws and
trimmers through the SOLO products. “We will launch our best
quality products under an exclusive specialist dealer brand by
combining the best of SOLO and AL-KO. The customers of the
specialist dealers thus profit from the know-how of two strong
and tradition-rich providers in one product range”, says
Wolfgang Hergeth, manager of AL-KO GERÄTE GMBH, outlining the
advantages.
I wanted to report production in Sindelfingen to you about the
end of the Solo power saws.
I had to look the big luck in Sindelfingen a look in the work
and in the research laboratory at that time. I have found some
very nice prototypes of chain saws and test engines there.
WOW!!!
What trip were still quite big in the 60s and 70s as Solo chain
saws.
Here maybe we can show once again the chain saw history from
Solo and the nicest chain saws from Sindelfingen.
The best greetings Peter
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Re: The end of Solo
By: Chainsawrepair Date: July 19, 2014, 6:18 pm
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SOLO Chainsaws
This product group is now produced and distributed by the AL-KO
Geräte GmbH, Kötz in Germany. More information can be found on
the page www.solobyalko.com
#Post#: 43124--------------------------------------------------
Re: The end of Solo
By: Chainsawrepair Date: July 19, 2014, 8:01 pm
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Think I would be leaving the 60th anniversary stickers on the
solo saws. ;) For resale down the road. Seen them on the 665
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Re: The end of Solo
By: KilliansRedLeo Date: July 20, 2014, 2:53 am
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Bigger picture, wondering what this means for DolKita, since
they were/are designed by Solo. It also looks that the brand
name SOLO and some of its' products will remain but be produced
by two company merger/sale.
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Re: The end of Solo
By: Chainsawrepair Date: July 20, 2014, 1:52 pm
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[quote author=Cut4fun_ link=topic=3796.msg43124#msg43124
date=1405818112]
Think I would be leaving the 60th anniversary stickers on the
solo saws. ;) For resale down the road. Seen them on the 665
[/quote]
Dex solo 665 60th sticker I was talking about.
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Re: The end of Solo
By: DexterDay Date: July 27, 2014, 9:37 am
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[quote author=Cut4fun_ link=topic=3796.msg43157#msg43157
date=1405882338]
[quote author=Cut4fun_ link=topic=3796.msg43124#msg43124
date=1405818112]
Think I would be leaving the 60th anniversary stickers on the
solo saws. ;) For resale down the road. Seen them on the 665
[/quote]
Dex solo 665 60th sticker I was talking about.
[/quote]
Yep.. Definitely gonna leave mine on the saw 8)
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Re: The end of Solo
By: Spike60 Date: August 23, 2014, 12:54 pm
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Hate to see another brand disappear, but this is how it goes.
Remaining unsold product on dealer shelves might be of some
interest to guys here in the enthusiast world, but it's a sure
dead end for the typical end user. What there is of a dealer
base will soon wither away, so parts and service at a local
level will be history. How far down the road Solo USA will
continue to supply parts is probably up in the air. They will
stay as a sprayer company. I'd be totally shocked if the new
company has any intent on marketing saws here in the US. It's
not as if they would be following an operation that had it's
#### together. :)
#Post#: 45540--------------------------------------------------
Re: The end of Solo
By: KilliansRedLeo Date: August 30, 2014, 8:58 am
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I agree Bob!
#Post#: 49560--------------------------------------------------
Re: The end of Solo
By: Chainsawrepair Date: November 21, 2014, 1:22 pm
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Might be some info here.
[quote author=JN link=topic=3796.msg45540#msg45540
date=1409407112]
I´m still glad that some big box stores have taken Solo saws for
sale. You can indeed get all Solo models from here - from small
engine -specialized shops that sell Solo. Teräosa is importer
for Solo from 2012 ->
HTML http://www.teraosa.fi/,
I ordered from mr.
Jääskeläinen -
HTML http://www.jaaskelainen.fi/konekipina/
What i´ve understood, Solo saws from mid-year 2014 will be
produced in Austria: it seems so that since this year the
machines were built in Austria.
"Die Garten- und Forstgeräte von solo werden ab Jahresmitte am
österreichischen Produktionsstandort Obdach in der Steiermark
produziert, wo AL-KO heute schon hochwertige Rasenmäher und
Traktoren fertigt. Damit können die Produktqualität und die
flexible Produktversorgung auch künftig sichergestellt werden."
->
HTML http://www.al-ko.com/de/solobyalko/solo-ist-jetzt-solo-by-al-ko/
I noticed that some of the Solo boxes had text "Made in Germany"
and other had´nt. I ordered mine from a small engine workshop,
who sells Echo and Solo.
I don't know the quality differences from the new built Solos
made on Austria or germany but I am nearly sure that they still
were all built in Sindelfingen germany. ?
[/quote]
#Post#: 78331--------------------------------------------------
Re: The end of Solo
By: Chainsawrepair Date: August 8, 2017, 7:26 pm
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[member=474]ms460woodchuck[/member] the info you seek right
here.
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