Takeuchi Manufacturing
Japanese heavy construction machinery company
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Takeuchi Mfg. Co., Ltd. (株式会社竹内製作所, Kabushiki-gaisha Takeuchi Seisakujo) is a Japanese heavy construction machinery company that manufactures excavators, track loaders, crawler dumpers and wheel loaders.
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Native name | 株式会社竹内製作所 |
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| Company type | Public |
| TYO: 6432 | |
| Industry | Construction Machinery |
| Founded | Sakaki (August 21, 1963) |
| Headquarters | Sakaki, Hanishina district, Nagano Prefecture 389-0605, Japan |
Key people | Akio Takeuchi (Founder) Toshiya Takeuchi (President) |
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| Revenue |  JP¥ 94.3 billion (FY 2017)
(US$ 846 million) (FY 2017) |
| JP¥ 9.5 billion (FY 2017)
(US$ 85 million) (FY 2017) | |
Number of employees | 691 (as of February 28, 2018) |
| Website | Official website |
| Footnotes / references [1][2] | |
History
Takeuchi was founded in 1963 by Akio Takeuchi as a construction equipment manufacturer. Takeuchi developed the world's first compact excavator in 1971 and in 1986 he introduced the compact track loader, another world first.[citation needed]
The company has wholly owned subsidiary facilities in the United States (1979), United Kingdom (1996), France (2000) and China (2006).[citation needed]
Gallery
A Takeuchi compact excavator in Angoulême, France
A tree spade on an older model Takeuchi track loader.
A Takeuchi track loader at the Building Fair in Brno, Czech Republic
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