is a Japanese material-handling equipment company, founded in 1937, in

Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2. ...

. it was the leading material handling system supplier in the world.

Name origin

It was founded as ''Sakaguchi Kikai Seisakusho Ltd.'', and renamed to ''Kanematsu Kiko'' in 1944 then ''Daifuku Machinery Works Co., Ltd.'' in 1947. Its modern name ''Daifuku Co., Ltd.'' has been used since 1984. The company name consists of two parts: ''Dai'' is one of the names for the character 大, and refers to ; ''fuku'' refers to Fukuchiyama, Kyoto, which was its second production location at the time.

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Official site
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