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 ;
fuku refers to
Fukuchiyama, Kyoto, which was its second production location at the time. ==References==