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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 to 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 international Techint group in 2006. Among their products are some of the largest mobile land-based objects on the planet, such as the bucket-wheel excavators RB293 and SRs 8000.

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