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| 1883 | Mr. Charles Clarence Hobart builds his first engines and generators in Middletown, Ohio. |
1886 | J.C. Cochran receives the patent for the first dishwasher. |
| 1897 | The HOBART ELECTRICAL MANUFACUTRING COMPANY was founded in Troy Ohio, by the acquisition of the engine and generator factory of the HOBART family. |
1903 | HOBART builds the first food processor (a self-contained powered coffee mill). |
1926 | Hobart purchases The Crescent Washing Machine Company, and enters the commercial warewashing market: the first warewashing machine carrying a HOBART label |
1930 | Foundation of the HOBART MASCHINEN GESELLSCHAFT in Hamburg, Germany. |
| 1953 | HOBART receives the patent for the first flight-type diswasher. |
| 1960 | Acquisition of the dishwashing-department of the company K. Marin, Offenburg, Germany. |
| 1980 | Production plant in Elgersweier, Germany, was newly build |
| 1986 | PREMARK INTERNATIONAL GROUP emerged in Deerfield, Illinois. |
| 1997 | HOBART CORPORATION’S 100th anniversary. |
| 1999 | Integration of PREMARK into ITW |
| 2004 | HOBART relocates to Elgersweier |
| 2006 | Launch of HOBART’s export activities |
| 2007 | HOBART’s PREMAX line begins a new chapter in the annals of dishwashing technology. The PREMAX FTP flight-type dishwasher cuts water use by up to 50 %, energy use by up to 30 %, and use of chemicals by up to 80 %. |
| 2009 | HOBART introduces the SENSOTRONIC, the world’s first intelligent dishwashing technology |
| 2010 | Tenth record year in succession for HOBART |