Moxy Engineering is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 manufacturer of articulated hauler

Articulated hauler

An articulated hauler is a type of dump truck used to transport loads over rough terrain. The vehicle usually have all-wheel drive and consists of two basic units, one generally called the tractor and the rear section, called the hauler or trailer section, which contains the dump body...

s (dump truck

Dump truck

A dump truck is a truck used for transporting loose material for construction. A typical dump truck is equipped with a hydraulically operated open-box bed hinged at the rear, the front of which can be lifted up to allow the contents to be deposited on the ground behind the truck at the site of...

s) for off-road use in the earth moving and construction industries. Moxy was founded by the industrialist Birger Hatlebakk

Birger Hatlebakk

Birger Hatlebakk was a Norwegian industrialist and politician for the Liberal Party.He founded Moxy Engineering....

, who had previously founded the Glamox factory in Molde

Molde

is a city and municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Romsdal region. The municipality is located on the Romsdal Peninsula, surrounding the Fannefjord and Moldefjord...

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History

Moxy built the first prototype dump truck in 1970. The first model was a heavy duty dump truck drawn by a powerful tractor

Tractor

A tractor is a vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery used in agriculture or construction...

 with rear wheels driven by hydraulic motors. The next version, an articulated dump truck driven by a Scania

Scania AB

Scania Aktiebolag , commonly referred to as Scania AB or just Scania, is a major Swedish automotive industry manufacturer of commercial vehicles - specifically heavy trucks and buses...

 diesel engine, D20, was also finished in 1970. The first prototypes were built in Molde

Molde

is a city and municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Romsdal region. The municipality is located on the Romsdal Peninsula, surrounding the Fannefjord and Moldefjord...

, but then the company moved to nearby Elnesvågen

Elnesvågen

Elnesvågen is a village and the administrative centre of the municipality of Fræna in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located along the Frænafjorden about north of the city of Molde, east of Tornes, and northwest of Malmefjorden and Sylte...

 in Fræna

Fræna

Fræna is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the region of Romsdal. The municipality is located on the Romsdal peninsula surrounding the Frænfjorden, the eastern shore of the Julsund strait, and includes most of the Hustadvika area...

 municipality, where a new factory was built. About the same time Moxy acquired Gjøvik

Gjøvik

is a town and a municipality in Oppland county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Gjøvik.In 1861, the village of Gjøvik in the municipality of Vardal was granted town status and was separated from Vardal to form a separate municipality...

 based company Øveraasen Motorfabrikk & Mekaniske Verksted, which provided Moxy with useful engineering technology.

In 1972 Moxy marketed its first articulated dump truck, the Viking D15, which used a bogie under the dump box and six wheel drive. The trucks were well received by the earth moving industry. Around 1980 the company was acquired by English company Brown Engineering, who changed the name to Moxy Industries AS.

During the 80's several new dump trucks were developed and Moxy gained a good reputation in the market place and exported their products to several countries around the globe. In order to increase their production capacity Moxy cooperated with Tallmek Smøla AS, who produced the dump boxes. In the 80's Moxy started a cooperation with the Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese company Komatsu. During one period Moxy produced dump trucks that Komatsu sold under their own brand name. In 1981 the Norwegian state owned company AS Olivin and Komatsu together acquired Moxy and changed the company name to Moxy Trucks AS. Olivin owned 2/3 and Komatsu 1/3 of the shares. The new owners injected fresh capital and the Moxy dump trucks were sold through the Komatsu sales network, which led to a large increase in sales.

In 2000 Komatsu withdrew from the partnership and Moxy lost a number of its sales outlets, which led to a reduction in sales. The drop in sales in turn led to a reduction in the workforce, this coincided with the Norwegian state's efforts to partly privatise Olivin (49 % of the shares were sold to private investors). In order to make Olivin more attractive for prospective byers the state injected 50 mil NOK into the company and split off the struggling Moxy as a state owned company. However, in 2002 51 % of the shares in Moxy were sold to the Ålesund

Ålesund

is a town and municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Sunnmøre, and the center of the Ålesund Region. It is a sea port, and is noted for its unique concentration of Art Nouveau architecture....

 based company Spilka Invest AS. A few months later the Norwegian economy started to improve and the sales of Moxy dump trucks increased.

Despite the economic problems the Moxy dump truck has a good reputation in the earth moving industry and the English Thomson group acquired the company's assets, production continued under the new company Moxy Engineering AS. In 2008, Doosan Infracore's Construction Equipment Business Group acquired 100% of the company from Thomson Group, and changed the name as Doosan Moxy AS. In 2011, the Moxy name was dropped and latest trucks were marketed under just the Doosan brand, rather than the previous Doosan-Moxy marque.

Moxy Product Range

The trucks are designed to work in rough terrain in all operating conditions and are built with highly advanced drive train and chassis design, which gives the Moxy dump trucks very good traction and stability.

• MT26 (24 ton capacity)
• MT31 (28 ton capacity)
• MT36 (33 ton capacity)
• MT41 (37 ton capacity)
• MT51 (46 ton capacity)

External links

• Moxy official site
• Norwegian Wikipedia - Source article (in Norwegian)