Matbro

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Matbro TS270 With a flat 8 bale grab for small square bales

Matbro was a brand of lifting equipment, popular with farmers. Matbro produced a wide range of telescopic handlers in their distinctive yellow livery, using engines derived from Perkins. The vehicles had different arrangements of lifting booms, but the basic principle was the same. Matbro began operating at a loss in the late 1990s and in the end went under in 2003 after accounting issues in their parent company powerscreen. The old designs were then sold to the heavy lifting company Terex and tractor company John Deere, which has continued to evolve the designs, with new ideas such as side mounted engines instead of rear ones and hydrostatic drive instead of the often problematic torque converter system used in earlier Matbro models.