Takeuchi Manufacturing

The Takeuchi Mfg.. Co., Ltd. is a Japanese industrial company, was established in 1963 by Akio Takeuchi. The company employed 439 employees in Japan in 2005, since 1979 there Takeuchi U.S. with a U.S. branch.

Takeuchi is considered the inventor of the mini excavator or the telescoping drive. The product range includes mini excavator 700 kg - 14,460 kg. The first machines had three -digit numbers, then followed the legendary TB 15 (color: orange), the sequel is called TB 015 and TB 014 and then 016 - the number stands for the operating weight. In addition Hüllkreisbagger offered t operating weight to 8 on the European market yet. Hüllkreisbagger because this excavator can swing within the chain width to 360 ° ( outer circle ). Next crawler loaders and transport crawlers are still in production.

The machines are considered to be of very high quality and are therefore quite expensive to purchase. General importer for Germany is the company Schäfer, Mannheim.

Takeuchi has the sole agency for Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia & Herzegovina Huppenkothen GmbH & Co KG, headquartered in Lauterach, Vorarlberg.