Hitachi Sumitomo Heavy Industries Construction Crane Co., Ltd.

1949

Hitachi developed U05 mechanical shovel based entirely on domestic technology.

1955

Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. (service company) was founded.

1957

Hitachi developed U106 multi-purpose excavator

1963

Sumitomo Machinery Co., Ltd. [presently Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.] created a construction division. The division entered a technological partnership with Link-Belt Construction Equipment Company in the US [presently FMC Co.] for crawler and truck cranes. The Sumitomo Construction Machinery Sales Co., Ltd. was established as the exclusive agent in Japan.

1964

The company began the sale of mechanical truck cranes under the “Sumitomo-Link-Belt” brand name.

1965

Different companies within the construction machinery sales division at Hitachi, Ltd. and Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. (service company) merged to form the former Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.

1969

The construction machinery sales division of Hitachi, Ltd. split and became an independent company. The Adachi and Tsuchiura factories joined to form Hitachi Construction Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

1970

Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. (manufacturing company) and the former Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd merged to form Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.

The company began sales of hydraulic truck cranes.

1971

The company launched the world’s first fully hydraulic crawler crane KH150.

1974

Operations at the Adachi factory are consolidated with the Tsuchiura factory as part of a factory reorganization plan and to reinforce the production system.

1975

Sales of fully-hydraulic truck cranes began.

1981

Forms a technological alliance with Tadano, Ltd. in the area of truck and crawler cranes.

1985

Shenzhen International Construction Machinery Corp. (China) was established.

LS-215RH5 was awarded the Machine Design Award.

1986

Sumitomo and FMC jointly established LBCE (USA). The company began sales of cranes in the US.

Split from Sumitomo Heavy Industries, and Sumitomo Construction Machinery, a vertically integrated company from manufacture to sales, was established.

1989

The Kasumigaura factory, a factory for mass producing transmission and other components, was completed near the Tsuchiura factory.

The company was listed in the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

1990

Production of an all-terrain crane (fully hydraulic truck crane) began.

1994

The CX series, a fully remodeled version of the KH series, was launched.

1996

The Tsuchiura business division acquired ISO9001 certification.

1997

The company acquired ISO14001 certification for environmental management systems.

1998

The company acquired ISO9001 certification, an international standard for quality assurance, for its crane and machines for foundation work manufacturing processes.

1999

The Nagoya factory acquired ISO14001 certification for environmental management systems.

2000

A company that specialized in crane maintenance and rental services, Technical Crane Service Co., Ltd. (later called HSC Crane Services Co., Ltd.), was established.

2001

Sumitomo Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. formed an alliance with Tadano Ltd. in the crane business.

Sumitomo Construction Machinery split and became Sumitomo Heavy Construction Crane.
Sumitomo Heavy Industries formed an alliance in the crane business with Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. and Tadano Ltd.

2002

Hitachi Sumitomo Heavy Industries Construction Crane Co., Ltd. opened for business.

2003

The Shanghai representative office was opened.

The SCX series was launched. Sales of two models, the SCX900-2 and SCX1200-2, began.

Technical Crane Services Co., Ltd. [at present, HSC Crane Services Co., Ltd.] was consolidated into the group.

2004

Hitachi Sumitomo Heavy Industries Construction Crane (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. was established.
The manufacturing division opened its Nagoya factory.

2005

UCX300, a wheeled crane, was launched.
The ATX series, all-terrain cranes, was launched.

2006

HSC Crane Services was merged to HSC.

2007

Midterm management plan "Global HSC 21C" was set.

2008

SCX2000-2 won the Prize Machine Design Award: Distinctive Merit Award.