Daifuku (company)

Daifuku Co., Ltd. (株式会社ダイフク) is a Japanese material-handling equipment company, founded in 1937, in Osaka. 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 Osaka (大阪市); fuku refers to Fukuchiyama, Kyoto, which was its second production location at the time.