Linco

Linco’s doors first opened on April 1, 1974. The company was the brainchild of a few recently unemployed salespeople from Greens Material Handling Equipment, a company that had just shuttered its doors weeks earlier. One of those salesmen was Harold Patterson, a stoic, Korean War Veteran whom we would eventually call Grandpa. Harold disliked his given name to the extent that he insisted everyone call him “H”. Under H’s watch, Linco grew into one of the largest and most respected caster distributors in the entire US. Linco went from a company that mainly relied on local suppliers to support local customers, to a company that had an internationally recognized brand. Linco ‘s presence grew in Mexico,