Co., Ltd. (株式会社竹内製作所, Kabushiki-gaisha Takeuchi Seisakujo) is a Japanese heavy construction machinery company that manufactures excavators, track loaders, crawler dumpers and wheel loaders.
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.
[citation needed] The company has wholly owned subsidiary facilities in the United States (1979), United Kingdom (1996), France (2000) and China (2006).
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