is a Japanese heavy construction machinery company that manufactures

excavator Excavators are heavy equipment (construction), heavy construction equipment primarily consisting of a backhoe, boom, dipper (or stick), Bucket (machine part), bucket, and cab on a rotating platform known as the "house". The modern excavator's ...

s, track loaders, crawler dumpers and wheel loaders.

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. The company has wholly owned subsidiary facilities in the United States (1979), United Kingdom (1996), France (2000) and China (2006).

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* Construction equipment manufacturers of Japan Companies based in Nagano Prefecture Companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Manufacturing companies established in 1963 Japanese brands Japanese companies established in 1963 {{japan-corp-stub