Takeuchi (company)
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| legal form | Co Ltd |
| ISIN | JP3462660006 |
| founding | August 21, 1963 |
| Seat |
Sakaki , Nagano Prefecture , Japan
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| management | Toshiya Takeuchi |
| Number of employees | 734 (November 2017) |
| Branch | Construction machinery |
| Website | www.takeuchi-mfg.co.jp |
The Takeuchi Mfg. Co., Ltd is a Japanese industrial company and was founded in 1963 by Akio Takeuchi. The company employed 439 people in Japan in 2005, and there has been a US branch with Takeuchi US since 1979 . The company's headquarters is located in Sakaki in Nagano Prefecture .
Takeuchi is considered to be the inventor of the mini excavator or the telescopic drive. The product range includes mini excavators from 700 kg to 14,460 kg. The first machines had three-digit names, followed by the legendary TB 15 (color: orange ), the successor is called TB 015 and then TB 014 and 016 - the number stands for the operating weight. In addition, enveloping circle excavators with an operating weight of up to 8 t are offered on the European market . Enveloping circle excavators because these excavators can swivel 360 ° (enveloping circle) within the chain width. Loading and transport crawlers are also manufactured.
The machines are considered to be of very high quality and are therefore quite expensive to purchase. The general importer for Germany (since 1985), Poland and Bulgaria is the company Wilhelm Schäfer GmbH, Mannheim, which has been part of the general importer of Takeuchi for the Benelux countries, Verhoeven in Maarheeze , since 2014 .
The Takeuchi general agency for Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia & Herzegovina is owned by Huppenkothen GmbH & Co. KG with its headquarters in Lauterach, Vorarlberg.
Web links
- Takeuchi Mfg. Co., Ltd. (English / Japanese)
- Takeuchi Mfg. (US), Ltd (English)
- Website of Huppenkothen Baumaschinen (German / English / Spanish / French)
- Website of Wilhelm Schäfer GmbH (German / English / Polish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Takeuchi , bloomberg.com
- ↑ »The individualization of the machines is our great strength« , baumagazin-online.com, October 24, 2015
- ↑ Moving across Europe . (PDF) In: Contour . No. 04, 2018, p. 16.