Madill Equipment, a Nicholson Manufacturing Company

In 2011, Madill was acquired by Nicholson Manufacturing in Sidney, British Columbia, Canada. Nicholson is a world leader in ring debarkers for the lumber mill industry. Nicholson`s modern 110,000 square foot facility now also manufactures the Madill line of forestry equipment. As the coal ran out, forestry expanded and the Madill family undertook repairs to logging machinery, which eventually led to the invention of the first portable spar tree yarder in 1955. The company grew, set up a state of the art plant in Nanaimo B.C. and over time manufactured and sold over 1380 spar yarders worldwide.