TADANO Cranes For Sale

About Tadano

Tadano Ltd. is a Japanese corporation headquartered in Takamatsu that developed Japan’s first hydraulic truck crane with the OC-2 Truck Crane in 1955. Tadano is now a leading worldwide manufacturer of all-terrain, rough-terrain, telescopic boom crawler, and straight and knuckle boom loader cranes and aerial work platforms used to help construct everything from high-rise buildings to wind turbines. The company claims to have delivered 500,000-plus hoisting vehicles in recent decades alone. In 2019, it both celebrated its 100th anniversary and acquired Demag’s mobile crane business. 

Operating under a corporate philosophy of Sozo (Creation), Hoshi (Contribution), and Kyoryoku (Cooperation), Tadano produces cranes and lifting equipment at multiple plants in Japan, Germany, India, and the United States. Tadano America produces mobile cranes at Tadano’s U.S. headquarters in Houston, while Tadano Mantis in Franklin, Tennessee, builds telescopic boom crawler cranes.

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Tadano ATF 400G-6 All-Terrain Crane

The History Of Tadano

Tadano dates back to a welding business started in 1919 by founder Masuo Tadano and was officially established in 1948 as Tadano Iron Works. After inventing a railroad maintenance machine in 1950, Tadano began developing hydraulic industrial machines in the mid-1950s, including its first dump truck. The release of the OC-2 in 1955, with its 2-ton (1.8-metric-ton) lift capacity, would spur numerous orders and lead Tadano toward becoming a crane maker. 

The company unveiled the fully hydraulic OC-5 truck crane in 1957, and introduced TM loader cranes, TS truck cranes mounted on conventional trucks, and TL truck cranes mounted on specially designed carriers in the 1960s. Its TR-150 become Japan’s first hydraulic rough-terrain crane with a 15-ton (13.6-metric-ton) lift capacity in 1970. In the 1980s, Tadano introduced its first aerial work platforms (the AT-series models) and changed its name to Tadano Ltd. In subsequent decades, the manufacturer introduced AR all-terrain cranes and ATF all-terrain crane global-series models.

Tadano Acquisitions

Through the decades, Tadano has expanded its crane lineup with such key acquisitions as its 1990 purchase of Faun, which was established in Germany in 1845 and began producing all-terrain cranes in the mid-1980s. The Tadano Faun subsidiary now produces all-terrain, truck-mounted, and telescopic boom crawler cranes. Tadano’s 2008 acquisition of Spandeck, meanwhile, would lead to production of the MANTIS hydraulic telescopic-boom crawler crane lineup introduced in 1979 and used for general construction, foundation, tunneling, highway, railroad, pipeline, and other applications. In 2019, Tadano made another key acquisition by purchasing Demag’s mobile crane business from Terex, bringing all-terrain, city, and lattice boom crawler models aboard. Following the acquisition, Tadano began a restructuring effort involving the German operations of Tadano Faun and Tadano Demag. In 2014, Tadano expanded sales of its all-terrain crane models into the UK and Ireland with the acquisition of Cranes UK, which became Tadano UK.

Find Your Tadano Crane

You’ll typically find a wide selection of new and used cranes from Tadano, Tadano Faun, Demag, and Faun for sale at CraneTrader.com, including Tadano all-terrain, rough-terrain, and truck cranes. Rough-terrain cranes such as the Tadano GR 350, GR 550, GR 750, GR 800, GR 1000, and TR 500 lines are commonly listed for sale.