Loren Katzenberger started Precision Metal Fabricating Ltd. from a vision he saw when he attended the Western Canada Farm Progress show in Regina , Saskatchewan in June of 1980. An inventor at this show was presenting his new idea for a "RakeUp" pickup that would pick up swaths better than any conventional pickup. After contacting Dave Freisen, the inventor, and purchasing 2 units for himself, Loren began his quest to develop and market this revolutionary pickup. Loren saw the potential for all farmers to be more profitable with this product as well as providing an income for himself and his family. By 1985, after years of testing and the sale of his farming operation in Montana , Loren moved his family to Saskatoon and began the process of building a company for manufacturing and selling the Rake-Up pickup .

PMF is currently their worldwide supplier
of pickups for Claas, AGCO, Case IH, and New Holland.

From 1985 to 1990 the Company remained a small, single product company and continued to develop markets for this new technology. The facility in Saskatoon , Saskatchewan was very small and by 1991 the Company had outgrown itself. As a result, in 1991 PMF moved to Rosetown , Saskatchewan after being approached by people from Rosetown and the Economic Development branch of the Saskatchewan Government. This move helped the Company to gain space and resources to expand its production and provide a more stable operating environment.

The next 4 years were filled with tough times as well as some good growth in sales and market awareness. Included in this growth was the introduction of the SwathMaster pickup in 1993 . It was developed and launched to farmers with very favorable interest and reviews. Beginning in 1992, PMF began supplying Rake-Up pickups to Claas, a German combine manufacturer. This partnership has continued and as a result PMF is currently their worldwide supplier of pickups.

Continuing with Loren's vision of offering products to customers to help them make money. A new product, the Phillips Rotary Harrow was licensed from the inventor Laurie Phillips of Australia in 1994 . At this time it was apparent that the facility in Rosetown was no longer large enough to handle the three products that PMF was producing. As a result a new facility was obtained in Saskatoon to facilitate the manufacturing of the Phillips Rotary Harrow as well as to centralize the purchasing and machine shop staff.

The operating of 2 separate shops continued until 2000 when the Rosetown operation was closed and all manufacturing relocated to an expanded Saskatoon facility. The expansion of the Saskatoon facility included the installation of a new paint system which helped to upgrade the quality of PMF's products.

In 1998 PMF began to develop the Precision Header , another innovative product designed with the farmer in mind. This new product allowed the Company to offer a complete Header/Pickup package to the major combine companies such as Case IH, New Holland and Agco. This complete package was of great help to the dealers as it offered a complete unit virtually ready to go to the field. This also helped the farmer in the end, as the products are properly assembled and designed to work together to feed the crop smoothly and quickly into combines. As a result PMF was able to forge strong partnership ties with these companies (Case & Agco in 1999 and New Holland in 2001) to provide all their Header/Pickup combination requirements worldwide.

The most recent addition to the PMF product line is the SMART-TILL 2200 , a new, innovative tillage tool designed to break up compaction under a conservation farming system. The technology for this tool was licensed from Jim Martindale, the inventor and went through its first complete production run in 2005. This tillage tool is the second addition to the Enviro-Till Family, which currently includes the Phillips Rotary Harrow, and the SMART-TILL.

Over the years, PMF has developed international strategic alliances with Linamar Corporation. Linamar is a Hungarian manufacturing facility. The production agreements PMF has with this company enables PMF to deliver product under the OEM contracts from two key locations to truly service these major customers on a worldwide basis.

Since these partnerships have been created the Company has experienced continued growth and looks forward to the future by introducing new innovative products to help our customers make money.