As primary means of industrial goods transportation, forklift trucks play major roles in the material-handling fields of every industry worldwide.
Forklift trucks were first innovated as industrial vehicles in the U.S. as early as the 1930s. Subsequently, during the 1940s after the World War II, the conception of forklifts as a handy and efficient material-handling equipment spread worldwide, and Japan was not an exception.
In 1949, Mr. N. Niwa established TCM (originally founded as Toyo Carrier Manufacturing Co., Ltd., and later renamed Toyo Umpanki Co. before being known as TCM Corporation) for the manufacture of Japan's very first forklift truck.
In ensuing years, TCM forklifts have earned a reputation as a world leader in forklift manufacturing and simultaneously have been introduced into global markets.
Since the 1980s, TCM began to deploy forklift manufacturing sites outside Japan under its globalization programme, and is currently engaged in forklift manufacture at three foreign factories-in the United States, Europe and China.
TCM, as an outstanding manufacturer backed by more than fifty years of accumulated expertise and technology, makes various models of versatile industrial trucks, widely reputed and used in the world.
