Yanmar

Yanmar Co., Ltd.
ヤンマー株式会社

Type	Privately-held
Founded	Osaka, Japan 1912 (as Yamaoka Hatsudoki Kosakusho)
Headquarters	Osaka, Japan
Key people	Tadao Yamaoka, Chairman Takehito Yamaoka, President
Industry	Heavy Equipment Manufacturing
Products	Diesel Engines Heavy Equipment Watercraft
Revenue (turnover)	161.3 billion yen (2004)
Employees	2,700 (2005)
Website	www.yanmar.co.jp

Yanmar Co., Ltd. is a Japanese company involved in the manufacture and sales of engines, agricultural machinery, motorcycles, dirt bikes and ATVs, and light ships. Yanmar's headquarters are at 1-32 Chayamachi in the Kita ward of the Japanese city of Osaka. Yanmar is the patron of the J. League soccer team Cerezo Osaka and for the Yanbo Marbo weather forecast program on Japanese television.

History

Originally, the company planned to trade under the name "Tonbo", meaning "dragonfly", as dragonflies are a symbol of agriculture in Japan. However, this trademark was already registered to a Shizuoka soy sauce maker. Therefore, the name was changed to "Oniyanma" (Anotogaster sieboldii), the largest of all dragonflies in Japan. It is said that in the end, the name was also selected because it sounded similar to the surname of the company's founder, Yamaoka Magokichi. It is likely that the "oni" was dropped because it means "devil" or "demon" in Japanese.

Yanmar is for the most part a corporation specializing in diesel engines, and also makes light fishing boats. In recent years Yanmar has started sales of hulls for ships. Manufacturing tractors, combine harvesters, rice-planting machines, and Heavy Utility Machinery. Yanmar ranks along with Kubota and Iseki & Co. as one of the top brands of agricultural machinery in Japan. Yanmar was the first to put a diesel engine in a rice planting machine with a passenger seat.

Yanmar's flagship product in the construction machinery business is light hydraulic shovels.

In recent years, Yanmar has also manufactured industrial power generators and small- to medium-sized snow removal machines. In typical Yanmar fashion, some of the smaller snow removal machines feature light, air-cooled diesel engines.

In 2007, the Yanmar Model HB horizontal diesel engine (made in 1933) was added to the Mechanical Engineering Heritage of Japan.

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.
• 2001 Company starts the mass production of the famous Yanmar YMxxxx (four digits) series - one of the world's bestsellers
• 2002 Company starts the mass production of the YM series - the F and FX series - 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.

Products

Model	Power	Years
221	21 hp	2014 -
324	23 hp	2014 -
424	23 hp	2014 -
EF227H	26 hp	unknown
EF230H	29 hp	unknown
EF233H	32 hp	unknown
EF235H	34 hp	unknown
Ex450	45 hp	2012 -
Ex2900	28 hp	2012 -
Ex3200	32 hp	2012 -
F13D	15 hp	unknown
F14D	15 hp	unknown
F15D	19 hp	1999 - 2008
F16D	20 hp	1999 - 2008
F17D	21 hp	1999 - 2008
F18D	21 hp	1999 - 2008
F20D	23 hp	1999 - 2008
F22D	25 hp	1999 - 2008
F145	15 hp	1999 - 2008
F155	15 hp	1999 - 2008
F165	16 hp	1999 - 2008
F175	17 hp	1999 - 2008
F180D	18 hp	2002 - 2009
F195	23 hp	1999 - 2008
F200D	20 hp	2002 - 2009
F215	26 hp	1999 - 2008
F220D	22 hp	2002 - 2009
F235	28 hp	2002 - 2009
F255	25 hp	2002 - 2009
F265	26 hp	2002 - 2009
F320	32 hp	unknown
F360	36 hp	unknown
F420	42 hp	unknown
FX13D	13 hp	unknown
FX17	17 hp	unknown
FX20D	23 hp	1984 - 1994
FX22D	25 hp	1984 - 1994
FX24D	28 hp	1984 - 1994
FX26D	26 hp	unknown
FX28D	28 hp	2002 - 2009
FX42D	42 hp	2002 - 2009
FX215	21 hp	2002 - 2009
FX235	23 hp	2002 - 2009
FX255	25 hp	2002 - 2009
FX265	26 hp	2002 - 2009
FX285	28 hp	2002 - 2009
FX305	30 hp	2002 - 2009
FX335	33 hp	2002 - 2009
Ke-140	14 hp	unknown
Ke-160	16 hp	unknown
Ke-200H	20 hp	unknown
Lx410	41 hp	2012 -
Lx450	45 hp	2012 -
Lx490	48 hp	2012 -
Lx4100	41 hp	2012 -
Lx4500	45 hp	2012 -
Lx4900	48 hp	2012 -
Sc2400	24 hp	2012 -
Sx3100	31 hp	2012 -
T80	79 hp	unknown
YM1601D 20 hp 1999 - 2005 YM1602 20 hp 1999 - 2005 YM1610 20 hp 1999 - 2005 YM1610D 20 hp 1999 - 2005 YM1700 20 hp unknown YM1700D unknown unknown YM1702 21 hp 1999 - 2005 YM1720 21 hp 1999 - 2005 YM1800 21 hp 1999 - 2005 YM1802 21 hp 1999 - 2005 YM1810 21 hp 1999 - 2005 YM1820 21 hp 1999 - 2005 YM2000 22 hp 1999 - 2005 YM2000D unknown 1999 - 2005 YM2001 23 hp 1999 - 2005 YM2002 23 hp 1999 - 2002 YM2010 23 hp 1999 - 2002 YM2020 23 hp 1999 - 2005 YM2200 27 hp unknown YM2210 25 hp 1999 - 2003 YM2210D 25 hp unknown YM2220 25 hp YM2310 26 hp 1999 - 2003 YM2310D 26 hp unknown YM2402 23 hp 1999 - 2003 YM2420 28 hp 1999 - 2003 YM2500 27 hp 1999 - 2003 YM2610 30 hp 1999 - 2003 YM2620 30 hp 1999 - 2003 YM2820 33 hp 1999 - 2005 YM3000 33 hp 1999 - 2003 YM3110 30 hp 1999 - 2003 YM3220 41 hp 1999 - 2003 YM3810 42 hp 1999 - 2003

References

base article from wikipedia - to be rewriten, and model range added (UK) Much of the content of this article comes from the corresponding Japanese-language Wikipedia article (retrieved April 6, 2006).

External links

• Yanmar Global Site

Related Links

• Cerezo Osaka