Bouldin & Lawson

What Bouldin & Lawson does

Bouldin & Lawson is a U.S.-based manufacturer of automated nursery and greenhouse equipment, founded in 1959 and headquartered in McMinnville. The company designs and builds mechanized systems for the horticulture and nursery production industry, supplying machinery used by growers for tasks such as planting, transplanting, handling, and moving container stock within nursery and greenhouse operations. Its product positioning centers on automation of labor-intensive horticultural workflows, addressing rising labor costs and throughput requirements of commercial nursery operators.

The firm operates as a privately held, for-profit industrial equipment manufacturer with a headcount in the 11-50 range. Business model mechanics are not disclosed in the available source material — pricing models, revenue per unit, customer count, distribution channels (direct versus dealer), and aftermarket parts/service revenue mix could not be verified because the company's website content was inaccessible at the time of capture. Customer segments are also not enumerated in the input, though the company description implies commercial nursery and greenhouse operators as the primary end users.

Given 65+ years of continuous operation, the business model is functionally that of a long-tenured niche industrial OEM: design, fabricate, sell, and support specialized capital equipment to a defined agricultural customer base. The lack of disclosed pricing, channel, or revenue detail represents a material data gap for any valuation or competitive benchmarking exercise; further diligence would be required to assess margin profile, recurring revenue mix (parts and service), order book dynamics, and any exposure to cyclical nursery/greenhouse capital spending.

Name

Bouldin & Lawson

Website

https://bouldinlawson.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1959

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Bouldin & Lawson is a privately held U.S. manufacturer, founded in 1959 and based in McMinnville, that designs and builds automated equipment for commercial nursery and greenhouse operators. The company serves horticultural growers with mechanized systems for planting, handling, and moving container stock.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Nursery and Greenhouse Equipment

NAICS

Farm Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing (333111)

SIC

Farm Machinery & Equipment (3523)

akta.pro primary industry

Tillage, Seeding & Planting Equipment (IMAHACAB)

Keywords

• Nursery equipment
• Greenhouse machinery
• Automated horticulture
• Container nursery tools
• Commercial nursery supplies

Headquarters

HQ city

Mcminnville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Bouldin & Lawson manufactures automated nursery and greenhouse equipment for commercial horticultural operations. The company designs and produces machinery used by commercial nurseries and greenhouse growers to automate handling, production, and material-handling tasks within their operations. Founded in 1959, it sells its own manufactured equipment directly to business customers from its Mcminnville, Tennessee base.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Automated Nursery and Greenhouse Equipment Automated machinery and equipment manufactured for commercial nursery and greenhouse operations, designed to mechanize potting, handling, and material-movement tasks for professional horticultural growers.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• Priva: Larger Dutch process-automation and climate-control supplier offering broader greenhouse solutions overlapping Bouldin & Lawson's automation offering, but addressing a wider range of protected-crop functions beyond mechanical equipment.

Direct peers

• Logiqs: Netherlands-based supplier of automated internal transport, benching, and material-handling solutions for greenhouses and nurseries, closely comparable to Bouldin & Lawson's automation positioning for protected-crop operators.
• AgriNomix: US-based manufacturer of automated equipment for nurseries and greenhouses, including potting, transplanting, and material-handling systems that directly overlap Bouldin & Lawson's core product line for the same US nursery customer base.
• Javo International: Dutch maker of potting, transplanting, and container-handling machines for nursery and greenhouse operations, competing with Bouldin & Lawson in the same automated potting-and-transplanting equipment category.
• Mayer Horticulture Equipment: German manufacturer of potting machines and nursery automation equipment, serving tree-nursery and container-crop growers that are direct end customers for Bouldin & Lawson's automated systems.
• Visser Horti Systems: Dutch specialist in greenhouse and nursery automation, supplying sorting, potting, and internal-transport systems to growers worldwide — a directly comparable product portfolio to Bouldin & Lawson, but with broader international reach.
• WPS (Worldwide Potting Solutions): European specialist in potting machines, tray and pot handling, and automated nursery equipment, overlapping with Bouldin & Lawson on the core seeding/transplanting/potting equipment category.
• Cravo Equipment: Manufacturer of retractable-roof greenhouses and related automated production systems for nursery and specialty-crop growers, addressing the same protected-crop equipment buyer as Bouldin & Lawson.

Regional players

• Haygrove: UK-based but with growing North American presence, supplying greenhouse structures and production systems to growers, partially overlapping the same protected-crop customer base that Bouldin & Lawson serves.

Emerging players

• Dramm Corporation: US manufacturer of irrigation, watering, and chemical-application equipment used in greenhouses and nurseries, partially overlapping the operational tooling Bouldin & Lawson customers deploy alongside automated material-handling systems.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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