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Kalmar’s history can be traced back to the 1940s, when the first straddle carrier for industrial application was built in Härmälä, near Tampere, Finland. As a part of the war reparations paid by Finland to the Soviet Union in the 1950s, Valmet's Härmälä factory received an order for 500 lumber carriers. The machine was an early precursor of the container straddle carrier that would eventually come to dominate the entire global logistics industry. Read more about Kalmar's history in this detailed