Stihl is a manufacturer of garden equipment, with chainsaws as their core product. But they also offer other garden equipment, such as hedge trimmers, cleaning machines, leaf blowers, spraying equipment and brush cutters. The main office is located in Waiblingen, Baden-Württemberg, near Stuttgart. The company was founded in 1926 by Andreas Stihl, an important person in chainsaw development. With the chainsaw as its core product, the company is one of the main manufacturers of chainsaws. The thing that makes the company special is that they, as one of the few companies in the industry, develop the chain and guide bars for the chainsaws themselves.