We started as a family workshop. We grew up in the field. Today we harvest in the Americas and Africa.

What began as the Lory family workshop in Oberá, Misiones, Argentina, is now a company that designs, builds and exports tea, yerba mate and tobacco harvesters to growers in five countries. We are still a family business: we know every machine and we stand by every customer all the way to their field.

A harvester has to understand the crop before it touches it. That’s why we combine the precision of Central European engineering with five decades of craft in tea, yerba mate and tobacco: exact machines with simple mechanics, built to last season after season.

Our story

Half a century of precision in every machine that leaves Oberá, Argentina.

Today more than 200 Lory harvesters are working in Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, the United States and Kenya. We design them, build them and support them in the field, with assembly, setup and training at every destination.

It all began in 1972, with the first hand-drawn tea harvesters and pruners that Julio Lory built in Oberá, Argentina. That gave rise to a conviction that still guides us: imported machinery doesn’t know our crops.

That’s why we combine the discipline of Central European engineering (exact measurement, minimal tolerance, durability) with technical knowledge of tea, yerba mate and tobacco.

Mi Lugar, Canal 12 Misiones: interview by Ingrid Grudke

Harvesters working in the field: +200

Of leaf harvested with Lory machines to date: +36,000tonnes

Products, including harvesters, implements, accessories and spare parts: +30

Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, the United States and Kenya: 5countries

Our team

The people behind every machine

A team that designs, builds and supports every harvester, from the drawing board to the field.

Jorge Lory

CEO

David Lory

Product Director

Silvia Lory

Administration

Guillermo Skölfman

Production Manager

Dario Gregorchuk

Design and development

Cristian Massin

Administration

Alejandro Yedro

Administration

Our journey

Lory Máquinas milestones

From a small workshop in Oberá, Argentina, to harvesters working in five countries.

( 1972 )

The first harvesters

First hand-drawn tea harvesters and pruners

( 1975 )

Our own workshop in Oberá, Argentina

Opening of the Av. Don Bosco 489 workshop and production of tractor-mounted tea harvesters

( 2012 )

Yerba mate and our first export

First yerba mate harvester. First export: a stevia harvester to Ecuador. First pantograph

( 2013 )

4x4 hydrostatic tea harvester

First 4x4 hydrostatic tea harvester. First CNC lathe

( 2017 )

ISO 9001 certification

First quality management certification, with IRAM

( 2018 )

We reached Africa

Export of a tea harvester to Kenya

( 2019 )

Burley tobacco

First Burley tobacco harvester

( 2024 )

Brazil and new technology

Export of a yerba mate harvester to Brazil. Heat treatment furnace and first CNC machining center

( 2025 )

We reached the United States

Export of a tea harvester

( 2026 )

ISO 9001:2015 recertification

IRAM · IQNet · Registration RI 9000-8297

Certified quality

ISO 9001:2015, end to end.

Our Quality Management System is certified by IRAM and internationally recognized by IQNet. Every stage, from design to repair, follows documented, measured and audited processes, so every harvester leaves Oberá, Argentina, built to the same standard.

Certified scope

Design, manufacturing and repair of machinery for production and mechanized harvesting in leaf-crop fields.

IRAM-ISO 9001:2015 · Registration RI 9000-8297

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Harvesters for tea, yerba mate and tobacco

Let’s talk about your harvest

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