Yanmar

Yanmar Co., Ltd.
ヤンマー株式会社
Privately held
Industry Heavy Equipment Manufacturing
Founded Osaka, Japan 1912 (as Yamaoka Hatsudoki Kosakusho)
Headquarters 1-32, Chayamachi, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan
Key people
 Tadao Yamaoka, Chairman
Takehito Yamaoka, President
Products Diesel Engines
Heavy Equipment
Watercraft
Unmanned aerial vehicles
Revenue 577.1 billion yen (March 2013) Consolidated
Number of employees
 3,308 (Consolidated base 14,955) as of 2010
Website www.yanmar.co.jp

Yanmar Co., Ltd. (ヤンマー株式会社 Yanmā Kabushiki-Gaisha) is a Japanese diesel engine manufacturer with more than 100 years of history. The engines are used in a wide range of applications, including seagoing vessels, construction equipment, agricultural equipment and generator sets. Within the last 20 years, Yanmar has also established a growing presence in the domestic UAV market in Japan and elsewhere, with small helicopter UAVs such as the Yanmar YH300 SL and Yanmar AYH-3, primarily used in agricultural spraying and other forms of aerial application.

Company description

Yanmar Corporate Headquarters (Japan)

Yanmar is for the most part a corporation specializing in diesel engines, and also makes light fishing boats, hulls for ships, tractors, combine harvesters, rice-planting machines, gas heat pumps, snow throwers, transporters, tillers, mini excavators, portable diesel generators Side by Side UTV and Heavy Utility Machinery. Yanmar is one of the most famous among the top brands of agricultural, marine machinery in Japan and the world.

Yanmar was the first to put a diesel engine in a rice planting machine with a passenger seat. Small, light, air-cooled diesel engines are Yanmar's speciality. Yanmar also supplies engines to John Deere tractors and Thermo King Corporation used in refrigerated trucks and trailers. It also has a presence in both the domestic and international UAV markets.

Yanmar's headquarters are at 1-32, Chayamachi, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan.

Yanmar is the patron of the J. League Division 1 soccer team Cerezo Osaka and sponsor for AFC Champions League, Yanmar Racing and several weather forecast programmes on Japanese television. They sponsor a German football club Borussia Dortmund and also are a global sponsor to Manchester United F.C..

Company name origin

As described on the company website, "The name [Yanmar] is a combination of the Yanma Dragonfly (known by names such as Oniyanma and Ginyanma) and the “Yama” from the name of the company founder Magokichi Yamaoka."[1]

Timeline

A Yanmar 2GM20 marine diesel engine, installed in a sailboat.

1912 Yamaoka Magokichi sets up business under the name Yamaoka Engine Workshop.

1931 Inauguration of Yamaoka Engine Workshop limited.

1936 Inauguration of Yamaoka Internal Combustion Machines limited.

1940 Yamaoka Internal Combustion Machines amalgamates with Yamaoka Engine Workshop.

1952 Company name changes to Yanmar Diesel limited.

1992 Yamaoka Magokichi sets up business with small tractors.

1992 Company name changes to Yanmar Diesel limited.

1999 In this year the Yanmar Company starts the production of the famous Yanmar YMxxxx (four digits) series for the local market - this was one of the world's bestsellers at that time.

2002 Company starts the mass production of the F and FX series for local market - a new world success in the tractor manufacturing business.

2002 After a world success the company changes to Yanmar limited.

2003, a joint venture was established in Shandong, China with Shandong Shifeng called Shandong Shifeng Yanmar Engine Co.

Media programmes sponsored by Yanmar

Past

Products

References

  1. ↑ , About Brand page on yanmar.com; accessed 2016-01-14.

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