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July 30, 2007
As an exclusive manufacturing base of Tadano's truck loader cranes, the Tadotsu plant began its operations on July 25. 2007, the construction of which we had set about in June 2006 as being one of our initiatives for reorganizing domestic plants. The establishment of the Tadotsu plant then resulted in all types of construction cranes being produced at the Shido plant and aerial work platforms at the Takamatsu plant, thus making up the manufacturing trio of Tadano in the domestic market.
On this occasion, a ceremony to celebrate the completion of the Tadotsu plant was held attended by some 130 people including our customers with the mayor of the town in attendance, where President Koichi Tadano unveiled the first crane made by the Tadotsu plant, which then began its full-scale operations.
| 1 | Name | Tadano Ltd., Tadotsu plant |
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| 2 | Address | 10-1, Nishi Minatomachi, Tadotsu, Nakatado District, Kagawa, Japan. site adjacent to Shikoku Kiko (a 100% subsidiary owned by Tadano) |
| 3 | Lot size | 22,500 m² |
| 4 | Structure | two-storied steel-frame construction (partly including a three-storied office) total floor space: 20,715m² |
| 5 | Production capacity | approximately 900 units per month |
| 6 | Number of employees | approximately 90 |
| 7 | Investment | approximately ¥2.7 billion (for buildings about ¥1.4 billion, and for facilities and equipments about ¥1.3 billion) |
(1) Integrated production system for truck loader cranes
The Tadotsu plant established integrated production system (material cutting ~assembly~paijnting~inspection) in the closest cooperation with Shikoku Kiko, the "next-door" subsidiary will contribute a great deal toward shortening the period of products in progress as well as reducing the size of stock in process, while, for truck loader cranes, the frame part has so far been produced at Shikoku kiko with the boom portion and final assmbly made at the Takamatsu plant.
(2) Improvement of product quality and production efficiency by means of the introduction and build-up of new facilities and equipment
The introduction and build-up of the modern facilities and equipments including the latest laser cutting systems, robotic welding equipment as well as cation-electrodeposited painting systems in addition to an automated warehouse with multistoried shelves will further improve product quality and production efficiency while requiring much less production spaces.
(inside of red lines: Tadano Ltd., Tadotsu plant)
(inside of the blue lines: Head plant of Shikoku Kiko, a 100% owned subsidiary by Tadano)
<For your reference>
-Restructuring of domestic production system-
Based on a continuing strong recovery and expansion in demand in both domestic and overseas markets as well as in responce to further development in business environments in the future, Tadano invested and will continue to invest a total of approximately ¥11.5 billion over the three years from 2005 through 2008 in the refurbishment of an improved production system to boost outpot. Its goals are to raise the production of the mainstay construction cranes by over 50% in the targeted year 2008 compared with the year 2004. In addition, Tadano arranged that construction cranes is manufactured at the Shido plant, aerial work platforms at the Takamatsu plant and truck loader cranes at the newly-built Tadotsu plant to efficiently establish its intensified production system per product segment.
-Truck loader cranes and their applications-
In truck loader cranes, a crane operational device is installed in a space between the driver's cabin and the bed of a truck, which can be activated by use of motive power of the truck. Therefore, a single truck alone is able to lift a load as well as to load and unload a cargo. Due to the advantage they provide, they are widely used in construction and transportation industries in addition to gardening work purposes.
