Why are you a dairy producer?
The work is hard. The hours are long. The reward isn’t always measured in that milk check. But you give it your all, every day. You're a dairy producer because caring for cows is more than a business.
This is your life.
BouMatic understands what that really means. We’ve spent the last century improving the way cows are milked and dairy producers evolve their operations to meet the future. Today, BouMatic is ready to help you create the dairy you need to succeed and live the life you envision, with innovative products, forward-thinking solutions and boots-on-the-ground service. BouMatic offers a full-range of milking products, from bulk cooling tanks and route service essentials to automated milking systems and computerized management tools - each developed to improve the life of your dairy.
Your Cows
The life of your dairy begins with milking cows gently, quickly and completely. BouMatic milking systems provide a more natural, comfortable, and therefore more productive milking experience.
Your Time
You have a life beyond the barn. BouMatic offers innovative technology, including herd monitoring from your mobile phone, to increase efficiency and give you better work-life balance.
Your Legacy
With increased productivity and profitability, you can focus on growing your dairy for the next generation.
Your Land
Through better technology and improved milking efficiencies, you are producing more milk using less resources.
Your Responsibility
BouMatic’s better way of milking benefits your herd, your operation, your time and your family. At the end of the day, this responsibility is what makes dairy life so purposeful and rewarding.
Our track record of high quality milking systems started as early as the mid-19th century. Generation after generation, we innovated the solutions that enabled dairy business around the world to drive their efficiency and productivity. Today, that pioneering spirit endures as we continue to push the envelope.
January 1st, 1800
In the 1800s, the original "House of Melotte" is founded in Belgium, and Jules Melotte, son of the company founder, invents the Melotte Cream Separator.
January 1st, 1900
• 1927 - George H. Gascoigne founds Gascoigne in Reading, England, rapidly building a reputation for down-to-earth, quality milking equipment. • 1938 - Gilmon F. Albrecht founds the Dairy Equipment Company in Madison, Wisconsin. • 1939 - Lawrence Bouma establishes Bou-Matic Milkers, Inc. in Ontario, California. • 1951 - Dairy Equipment Company introduces Dari-Kool "canless" bulk milk coolers • 1956 - BouMatic operates from a new location in Ontario and supplies equipment through its Bouma Distribution agency. • 1961 - Dairy Equipment Company acquires Bou-Matic, relocates it to Wisconsin. • 1969 - DEC International, a parent company of Dairy Equipment Company, is established, reflecting the company's diverse product lines and global orientation. • 1974 - Gascoigne and Melotte merge to form a leader in milking machine design and development. • 1994 - Bou-Matic has divisions in several countries including Australia, England, France, Israel, Japan and Saudi Arabia. • 1997 - Annual sales reach $80 million, 60 percent of which derives from outside the United States.
January 1st, 2004
Bou-Matic purchases Gascoigne-Melotte to strengthen its global market position.
January 1st, 2006
• Bou-Matic and Gascoigne-Melotte are integrated into BouMatic LLC, a global dairy technology leader. • Launch of the Magnum Series of Liners
January 1st, 2007
Launch of the Xcalibur 90LX
January 1st, 2008
• First production orders of chemicals in Madison • Launch of SmartDairy System • Launch of the Xcalibur 360EX
January 1st, 2009
Launch of the TouchPoint & SmartControl Meter
January 1st, 2010
• launch of the HiFlo Evolution pulsator • launch of the ViewPoint detacher • launch of the Streamline 360EX
January 4th, 2011
• BouMatic Robotics BV is founded in The Netherlands. • Reveal and launch of the MR-S1 milking robot.
January 15th, 2012
• BouMatic begins manufacturing liners in Madison, WI • Opening of BouMatic Robotics Canada • Glacier Chill is introduced
January 1st, 2014
• Pulse MD monitoring system is released • Launch of the SmartLite System • Launch of the AMI 5450
January 1st, 2015
Started our R&D location in Houston, Texas
January 1st, 2016
Launch of the Manure Handling Line
January 1st, 2017
•BouMatic receives the Innov' SPACE Award for the SmartWay 90 rapid exit parallel stall.
January 1st, 2018
• Launch of MR-S2 and MR-D2 milking robots with new innovative robot arm. • The largest Xcalibur 360EX rotary - a 110-stall platform - is installed at High Plains Dairy in Kansas.
January 1st, 2019
• Launch of the FloStor Xtreme milking unit and Magnum Turbo Series Liners • BouMatic begins building our own Activity Tags in Houston
January 1st, 2020
The Gemini Milking Robot is released.
January 1st, 2021
• SAC now operates as a fully owned subsidiary of BouMatic. • BouMatic acquires Heat Reclaim Water Systems from former sister company, Therma-Stor.
January 1st, 2023
• A 120-stall rotary is installed at Riverbend Dairy in Idaho. • The Gemini UP and the Gemini MAX is released.
January 1st, 2024
The Butler Gold Pro - Feed Pusher and the Shuttle Eco-Feeding Robot is released.
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