User:JedOs/NEWTippmann
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| Company type | LLC |
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| Industry | Paintball Pneumatic Sewing Machines Industrial |
| Founded | Fort Wayne, Indiana (Early 1980s) |
| Headquarters | Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA |
Key people | Jimmy Tippmann Jr. |
| Products | Tippmann 98 98 Custom Custom Pro A-5 C-3 Flatline Barrel System Response Trigger System |
| Revenue |  Not Known USD (2005) |
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Number of employees | 120 (2005) |
| Website | www.tippmann.com |
Tippmann is a manufacturer of Paintball markers and accessories. It is a family owned business run from Fort Wayne Indiana, and also manufactures pneumatic sewing machines, as well as some industrial products.
History
In the 1980's Tippmann was known as, Tippmann Arms Company. As an Arms Company, Tippmann produced scaled down .22 cal replicas of military machine guns. In 1986 gun laws changed, and owner of Tippmann Arms Company, Dennis Tippmann was looking for new buisness. Dennis noticed the growing popularity of paintball and started to develop paintball markers with his knowledge of developing machine guns.