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{{Infobox_Company 
| company_name = Dolmar GmbH 
| company_type = [[GmbH]] 
| company_logo = 
| foundation =  1927 
| location =  [[Hamburg]], [[Germany]] 
| slogan =  
| key_people = 
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| industry = [[Forestry]] equipment, [[Landscape maintenance]] 
| products =  Industrial [[Chainsaws]], [[String trimmer]]s, and [[Leaf blower]]s
}}
[[File:KMS4.jpg|thumb|Dolmar chainsaw]]
[[File:Kettensägenähnliche Dolmar 8818.jpg|thumb|1950s [[log bucking]] bandsaws]]
'''Dolmar GmbH''' is one of the oldest manufacturers of portable gasoline [[chainsaw]]s and is headquartered in [[Hamburg]], Germany. The company founder, Emil Lerp, developed in 1927 the "type A" saw, which weighed 125 lb and required two men to operate. It was tested on Mount Dolmar in the Thüringer forest and the company took its name from the test site. 

Dolmar exhibited at the first international exhibition of wood in 1951 in Lyon, France where they presented the full range (of that time).

In 1975  the first rotary engine chain saw, the [[Dolmar KMS4]] was launched and in 1987, according to the manufacturer's advertising, with the first to be fuel injected.

The company became ''Sachs-Dolmar'' in ? after a merger/takeover with Sachs ?.

In 1991 the then ''Sachs-Dolmar'' company was acquired by Japanese power tool manufacturer [[Makita]].

The chainsaw lines for both Dolmar and Makita brands are built in Germany.

==Products==
The company also manufactures brush cutters, and electrical and engine powered trimmers, lawnmowers , and saws , and garden shredders and leaf vacuums. But its flagship product is the still chainsaw.

==See also==
* [[chainsaw]]
* [[Garden Tractors]]
* [[groundcare machinery]]
* [[power tools]]

==References / sources==
Based on a translation from the french [[Wikipedia]] > the English version.
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==External links==
{{Commonscat|Dolmar machines}}
*[http://www.dolmar.com Official website]

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[[Category:German brands]]
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[[Category:Garden tool manufacturers]]
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