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Company type | Wholly-owned subsidiary |
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Industry | Heavy equipment |
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Founded | 1880Belle Plaine, Iowa, US | in
Founder | William Dana Ewart |
Headquarters | Lexington, Kentucky, US |
Key people | Eric Sauvage (President & CEO) |
Parent | Sumitomo Heavy Industries |
Website | en |
LBX (Link-Belt Excavators) is an American industrial company manufacturing excavators, forestry equipment and scrap material handlers.[1]
Link-Belt is headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky. It is a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Sumitomo Heavy Industries.
LBX shares the Link-Belt brand with its sister company, Link-Belt Cranes. The two companies split in 1998. Sumitomo operates them as separate organizations.