Daifuku Snapshot
Meaning "great luck," Daifuku rivals the world's top suppliers of material handling systems and industrial automation equipment. The company operates three business segments. Its Logistics Systems comprise auto factory automation, making conveyor systems for building cars; factory and distribution automation, supplying storage, sorting and picking, and transport; and electronic factory automation, including clean room transport and storage. An Electronics segment makes interface boards for industrial computers. Car washes to bowling equipment is covered, too, by the Other segment. A fourth business, US affiliate Jervis B. Webb, specializes in baggage handling systems. Sales offices dot Japan and 19 countries.
