The Flory family had the first milking machine in the valley and the first tractor, too. Today, they build the most innovative harvesters – using TUMPF machines like TRUMPFTC L 2503 E II, TRUMATIC L 3030 (TruLaser 3030), TrumaBend C 66 (TruBend 3066), TruLaser 5030 and TruPunch 1000.

Formally established as a corporation in 1971, Flory Industries’ roots go back to 1909 when the Flory family settled in California’s Central Valley to live and farm on land that nearly a century later is the site of their fabrication and assembly facility. During the late 1920s, the family ran a 100-cow dairy farm where they were among the first, if not the first, farming families in the United States to use milking machines. In 1944, Howard Flory built the company’s first bean harvesting machine. Kent Flory, Howard’s grandson and Flory’s fabrication department manager recalls, “By the 1960s, California farmers were planting almond orchards in place of row crops. Seeing the opportunity this presented, we built our first tractor-powered almond pickup machine.”

Today, Flory Industries is a family-owned and operated business that specializes in the production of machinery and equipment for nut growers in North and South America, Spain and Australia. Flory’s range of agricultural products includes harvesters, sweepers, blowers, mowers, sulfur dusters, field elevators and brush shredders. “Over the years, we’ve put close to 9,000 units in the field,” says Kent Flory.