# Art's Way

Art's Way Manufacturing is an American producer of agricultural machinery, modular buildings and cutting tools under the brand names Art's Way, Art's Way Scientific and American Carbide Tool. The firm previously manufactured OEM feed blowers sold by Case New Holland.

## History

Iowa farmer Arthur Luscombe (1922–2008) founded Art's Way Manufacturing in 1956 to produce and sell a power take-off powered grinder-mixer he had developed on his farm near Dolliver. By 1959, the business was manufacturing OEM grinder-mixers for Massey Ferguson, Owatonna / Gehl and International Harvester.
In 1974, Art's Way listed as a public company by initial public offering with Nasdaq code ARTW.
Following the 1994 sale of his Marc McConnell Tractor business to AGCO, Ward McConnell purchased Logan Falls based Logan Potato Equipment. In 1996, he merged the Logan enterprise with a then financially troubled Art's Way and joined the board of directors. In 2002, McConnell became Chairman, a role taken up by his son Marc in 2015.

### Acquisitions and new businesses

| | Armstrong Rim & Wheel established to build wheels for grinder-mixers. |
| 1966 | Silamix mixer-wagons acquired. WeighTronix weighing scale developed to fit the mixer-wagons, grinder-mixers and for third party applications. |
| 1980s | Sunmaster mowers and shredders from Rotech. |
| 1980s | Heath Farm Equipment sugar beet harvesters and toppers. |
| 1980s | Range of potato harvesters including the John Deere patent wheel harvester. |
| 1990s | Stationary and mobile Peerless roller mills. |
| 1990s | Eversman land planes, levellers, ditchers, scrapers and cultivators. |
| 1996 | Logan potato equipment |
| 1990s | DMI grain wagon |
| 1990s | Farm Tool grain drills, Speedy bean cutters and dump wagons. |
| 2000 | Landstar / KanAm pull type graders. |
| 2005 | Steel pressure vessel manufacturing begins in Dubuque, Iowa. |
| 2006 | Scientific division established in Monona, Iowa to manufacture modular laboratories and other buildings. |
| 2007 | MillerPro and Badger forage boxes, forage blowers, hay rakes, and mergers. |
| 2008 | Facility opened at Salem, South Dakota to manufacture grain augers. |
| 2010 | Roda manure spreaders |
| 2010 | M&W balers from Alamo Group. |
| 2010 | Facility in West Union, Iowa. |
| 2012 | Universal Harvester reels for combine harvesters / swathers at cost $3 million plus 5,000 Art's Way shares. |
| 2013 | AgroTrend distribution business, and manufacturing of dump carts and snow blowers. Based in Clifford, Ontario. From Rojac Industries Inc. |
| 2013 | Ohio Metal Co Inc American Carbide brand machine tooling in Canton, Ohio, Ohio for a cost of $3,172,000. |
* ↑ Sold 1980s
* ↑ WeighTronix sold 1980s. Mixer-wagons not part of 2022 product range
* 1 2 3 4 5 Not part of 2022 product range
* ↑ By 2016 the business was part of Tristeel Manufacturing
* 1 2 3 Dropped from strategic product range in 2020 and stocks written down in value
* 1 2 3 Location no longer listed for Art's Way in 2022
* ↑ Product line discontinued by 2018
* ↑ Snow blowers not part of 2022 product range
* ↑ Products include single point brazed carbide tipped tools, and polycrystalline diamond / cubic boron nitride inserts.

## Awards

* 2015 - Award of Distinction from the Modular Building Institute for transgenic swine facility at Iowa State University's Zumwalt Station Farm in Ames, Iowa.
* 2014 - Award of Distinction from the Modular Building Institute for biomedical research building in California
* 2008 - Fortune Small Business Magazine 57th best small cap company in America.
* 2008 - Forbes magazine 54th best small company in America.