kk traded as tyo 6395 industry machinery founded takamatsu kagawa august 24 1948 ; 68 years ago 1948 08 24 founder masuo tadano headquarters takamatsu kagawa 761 0185 japan key people koichi tadano president and ceo products construction cranes truck loader cranes aerial work platforms revenue jpy 181.7 billion fy 2013 us 1.7 billion fy 2013 profit jpy 14.4 billion fy 2013 us 139.9 million fy 2013 number of employees 3 227 consolidated as of march 31 2014 website official website footnotes references 1 2 tadano ltd. kabushiki gaisha tadano commonly known as tadano is the largest japan based manufacturer of cranes and aerial work platforms . 3 the company is the seventh largest crane manufacturer in the world . 4 contents 1 history 2 gallery 3 references 4 external links history edit masuo tadano the founder of the company started as a steel fabricator in 1919 at fujitsuka cho takamatsu japan . in 1948 he founded tadano ltd. and set up the first manufacturing plant of cargo handling equipment in the following years the company expanded manufacturing to include various industrial equipment . in 1955 tadano introduced the first hydraulic truck crane with the capacity of 2 tonnage for the japanese market . in 1960 tadano successfully manufactured an export model of hydraulic truck crane and exported it to indonesia . 5 from then they have expanded into the worldwide market and established a solid international position in the field of hydraulic mobile cranes . from mid term plan 2008 they are aiming to become the no. 1 manufacturer of le domain le means lifting equipment machinery and equipment reflecting the concept of mobile gravity defying equipment for aerial work . in 1972 tadano listed company s shares on the first section of the tokyo stock exchange . they are also known by the project to restore the ahu tongariki moai statues on easter island from 1991 to 1993 . tadano has been accelerating its business worldwide since the early 2000s . starting with the establishment of a middle east office in dubai 2003 it has acquired us based crawler crane manufacturer spandeck inc. in 2008 now tadano mantis corp. in addition to the launch of production base for truck loader cranes in thailand 2013 1 . in may 2013 it has announced the launch of atf 400g series the all terrain cranes with 400 metric tons of lifting capacity which had been developed with its main subsidiary tadano faun gmbh . in august 2013 tadano announced the new model of rough terrain crane with the largest lifting weight for its kind 145 metric tons targeting markets in the americas and the middle east . in 2014 the company acquired its uk product distributor . the distributor company cranes uk changed its name to tadano uk . 6 gallery edit nissan diesel powered tadano crane tadano truck loader crane mounted on a isuzu forward atf series all terrain crane a tadano aerial work platform references edit corporate profile . tadano ltd. retrieved april 15 2015 . investor relations financial highlights . tadano ltd. retrieved april 15 2015 . company snapshot . bloomberg l.p. retrieved april 15 2015 . icm20 ranking of the world s largest crane manufacturers pdf . khl group . 2008 . retrieved april 15 2015 . history of tadano . tadano ltd. retrieved december 11 2009 . tadano completes acquisition of distributor cranes uk . venture capital post . april 10 2014 . retrieved april 15 2015 . external links edit japan portal engineering portal companies portal tadano ltd. japanese tadano group global portal english tadano faun gmbh english tadano america corp. english tadano beijing ltd. chinese english worldwide network of tadano group article on ritchiewiki member of jcema retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title tadano limited & oldid 740653159 categories manufacturing companies of japanconstruction equipment manufacturerscrane manufacturerscompanies listed on the tokyo stock exchangecompanies based in kagawa prefecturemanufacturing companies established in 19481948 establishments in japanjapanese brandshidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersarticles containing japanese language textarticles with japanese language external linksarticles with chinese language external links navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 22 september 2016 at 12 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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