The first tractor Valmet (the former name of VALTRA) was manufactured in 1951. The modest start was followed in the course of years by the establishment of a brand, known all over the world: the fifth largest tractor producer on the globe. The 60-ies were the time of the active product development, and it was in this period that a second VALTRA plant was built in Brazil.

The 80-ies faced the merger of the tractor production of VOLVO BM and, integrating quality and innovation, the Scandinavian market was conquered. In the 90-ies the producer of diesel engines SISU DIESEL became a part of the group, too. This is how VALTRA managed to run an entire in-house operation for most of the important tractor units.

In 1993 VALTRA was the first world tractor producer to be awarded the Quality Certificate ISO 9001. From 2000 until 2004 VALTRA introduced into production five new tractor series – something that not every competitor of the Finnish company can boast.

The high quality, power and individual approach to every customer are the characteristics that made VALTRA the most intensively developing tractor company worldwide.