is a Japanese material-handling equipment company, founded in 1937, in

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. it was the leading material handling system supplier in the world.

Name origin

It was founded as ''Sakaguchi Kikai Seisakusho Ltd.'', and renamed to ''Kanematsu Kiko'' in 1944 then ''Daifuku Machinery Works Co., Ltd.'' in 1947. Its modern name ''Daifuku Co., Ltd.'' has been used since 1984. The company name consists of two parts: ''Dai'' is one of the names for the character

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, and refers to ; ''fuku'' refers to

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, which was its second production location at the time.

References

External links

Official site
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