Yanmar Co., Ltd. (????????, Yanm? 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.
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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..
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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."
Timeline
- 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.
- 2015 - Yanmar Co., Ltd. acquires a majority stake in Spain-based generator sets manufacturer HIMOINSA
- 2016 - Yanmar increased its stake in the Indian company International Tractors, the maker of Sonalika branded tractors, to 30%. The company also bought German compact equipment maker Schaeff and forged a partnership with Toyota to develop "next generation hulls" for boats.
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