I can tell you what happened to International World Agritech Corp. The business was run from 1980 to 2006 by a man named Robert Taylor out of Bethel, Ohio. He ran a manufacturing shop where his employees fabricated rotary cutters and other simpler implements, while importing cheap European models of more complex implements, such as tillers and hay mowers, usually repackaged under the WAC name. He decided to get out of the business and sold off most of his inventory to a few of his dealers throughout the United States, providing them with very cheap replacement parts for several years.
The head foreman at WAC, Rick Hughes, decided to buy out the facility and kept most of the employees and continued to make the rotary cutters, disc harrows, blades, and a few other implements under the name International Technologies.
But in 2008, as International Technologies went through financial trouble, it was absorbed into the Hawkline of Nevada Company, which produces short line three point equipment and small trailers seen at places like Tractor Supply Company. The same employees still make the International mowers at Hawkline's factory in Mount Orab, Ohio, near Cincinnati, with Rick Hughes still managing the "International" brand. Mowers made currently bear the logo, "International by Hawkline."
One of Robert Taylors biggest customers was Curt Howard Equipment in London, Ohio. They stock hundreds of International mowers at any given time, and have tons of replacement parts from the Robert Taylor buyout. Find them at
C.H.E. INC: New & Used, Retail & Wholesale Farm Equipment.
