SAF Holland

More than a century ago, two peo- ple on opposite sides of the Atlantic started on a journey that would end in the creation of a huge business. In 1881, a German blacksmith from Ke- lilberg called Paul Zill invented a new kind of plough. Soon after realizing the business potential of his invention, he created a company called Otto Sauer Achsenfabik or SAF. As one of the pio- neers in the business of manufacturing agricultural equipment, the company grew over the years and also entered the transport industry with the manu- facture of axles and suspensions. A few decades later in 1910, Gerrit Den Besten of South Dakota estab- lished the predecessor of the Holland company, the Safety Release Clev- is Company. His first invention was a safety release hitch between plough and horse. The ingenious idea would eventually grow into a huge business. Like SAF, Holland was constantly at the leading edge of innovation. As new SAF-Holland A world leader in the manufacturing of commercial transport products