Founder Yamaoka Magokichi | Type of business Privately held | |
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Industry Heavy Equipment Manufacturing Key people Takehito Yamaoka, President Products Diesel EnginesHeavy EquipmentWatercraftUnmanned aerial vehicles Revenue 703.8 Billion yen (March 2016) Consolidated CEO Takehito Yamaoka (19 Jun 1998–) Number of employees 17,974 (consolidated as of March 31, 2016) Subsidiaries Yanmar Energy System Co., Ltd. Profiles | ||
Yanmar Co., Ltd. (ヤンマー株式会社, Yanmā Kabushiki-Gaisha) is a Japanese diesel engine manufacturer founded in Osaka, Japan in 1912. Their engines are used in a wide range of applications including seagoing vessels, construction equipment, agricultural equipment and generator sets.
Contents
- Yanmar construction equipment 2016convention concept video
- Company description
- Company name origin
- Timeline
- References
Yanmar construction equipment 2016convention concept video
Company description
Yanmar was founded in March 1912 in Osaka Japan by Magokichi Yamaoka.
The company specializes 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. When the company began in 1907, it manufactured gasoline-powered engines before switching to diesel in 1920.
Yanmar was the first to put a diesel engine in a rice planting machine with a passenger seat. Yanmar also supplies engines to John Deere tractors and Thermo King Corporation used in refrigerated trucks and trailers. 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.
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."