1982: William Chen establishes the exclusive distributor of Rug Doctor products in China, Hong Kong & Macau

1994: Manufacturing operations are established in Dongguan (China) for Rug Doctor

1996: The Company changed his name to VIPER Industrial products and began tooling also vacuums, floor machines and other cleaning equipment. VIPER established the sales office in Shanghai

1998: VIPER starts production of its own triple planetary gear boxes

2001: VIPER U.S. is established

2001: VIPER begans to make its injection molding operations and production of 1.0 hp and 1.5 hp AC motors

2001: VIPER moved to a new locations with 12.000 m2

2002: VIPER began rotational molding operations

2004: First production line was set up for automatic scrubbers

2006: VIPER began production of DC and vacuum motors

2007: Nilfisk-Advance Group acquired VIPER

2009: VIPER launched their European CE-approved models into the following markets: Italy, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, UK, Spain and Portugal.