MAN Takraf
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TAKRAF is a German industrial company based in Leipzig. TAKRAF is short for Tagebergbau-Ausrüstungen, Krane und Förderanlagen (surface mining equipment, cranes and conveying equipment). It is one of the world's leading manufacturers of heavy surface mining and transportation equipment. The company is especially well known for its huge Bucket-wheel excavators, semi-mobile crushing plants and heap leach systems.
The company was founded in 1958 in the former German Democratic Republic, but it goes back until the year 1725, when the first factory for construction equipment was founded in Lauchhammer near Dresden. After Germany's reunification, TAKRAF became part of the MAN company. It was acquired by the worldwide-operating Techint group in 2006.
