Yanmar

Yanmar Co., Ltd.
ヤンマー株式会社

Type	Privately held
Industry	Heavy Equipment Manufacturing
Founded	Osaka, Japan 1912 (as Yamaoka Hatsudoki Kosakusho)
Headquarters	1-32, Chayamachi, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan
Key people	Takehito Yamaoka, President
Products	Diesel Engines Heavy Equipment Watercraft Unmanned aerial vehicles
Revenue	703.8 Billion yen (March 2016) Consolidated
Number of employees	17,974 (consolidated as of March 31, 2016)
Website	https://www.yanmar.com/global/

Yanmar Co., Ltd. (ヤンマー株式会社, Yanmā Kabushiki-Gaisha^?) is a Japanese diesel engine manufacturer with more than 100 years of history. The engines are used in a wide range of applications, including seagoing vessels, construction equipment, agricultural equipment and generator sets. Within the last 20 years, Yanmar has also established a growing presence in the domestic UAV market in Japan and elsewhere, with small helicopter UAVs such as the Yanmar YH300 SL and Yanmar AYH-3, primarily used in agricultural spraying and other forms of aerial application.

Yanmar is for the most part a corporation specializing in diesel engines, and also makes light fishing boats, hulls for ships, tractors, combine harvesters, rice-planting machines, gas heat pumps, snow throwers, transporters, tillers, mini excavators, portable diesel generators Side by Side UTV and Heavy Utility Machinery. Yanmar is one of the most famous among the top brands of agricultural, marine machinery in Japan and the world. At the beginning of the company in 1907, when they manufactured gasoline-powered engines, then switching to diesel in 1920, Yanmar's competitors in engine manufacture were Daihatsu and Isuzu for diesel engines. Yanmar competitor for farming machinery is Iseki.

Yanmar was the first to put a diesel engine in a rice planting machine with a passenger seat. Small, light, air-cooled diesel engines are Yanmar's speciality. Yanmar also supplies engines to John Deere tractors and Thermo King Corporation used in refrigerated trucks and trailers. It also has a presence in both the domestic and international UAV markets.