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Founded in 1922, Bradken Limited () is a global manufacturer and supplier of differentiated consumable and capital products to the mining, transport, general industrial and contract manufacturing markets. As a leading heavy engineering company Bradken can manufacture fully machined cast iron and steel products from a mass of 0.5 kg to over 25 tonnes. Bradken employs 4,800 people worldwide〔 and has a global footprint with 54 manufacturing, sales and service facilities〔 throughout Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, China, the United States of America, Canada, South America, Malaysia and Indonesia. The company is a component of the S&P/ASX 200 index, code (BKN ). ==History== Between 1919-1920 two BHP steelworks employees, Leslie Bradford (General Manager) and Jim Kendall (Chief Mechanical Engineer) and a group of their friends backed a racehorse called ‘Jack Findlay' who completed a remarkable sequence of five wins. With each win the group rolled-over their bets and by 24 January 1920 they had won a small fortune pledging their winnings to start a steel foundry business. In December 1974 the company officially changed its name to Bradken Consolidated Limited.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BRADKEN CONSOLIDATED LIMITED - Company Profile and Status at deListed )〕 Between 1981 and 2000, the Bradken business was a division of Australian National Industries Limited (ANI), an under performing industrial conglomerate. ANI was taken over by Smorgon Steel in 2000 and broken up. The Bradken casting business was sold to private equity firm CHAMP and subsequently refloated on the ASX in August 2004. In 2005 the company acquired of Roche Castings Foundry, opened a coal mining services facility in Mackay, Queensland. In 2006 it acquired Firth Rixon Castings Ltd in the United Kingdom, a 20% share of Americast Technologies Inc. in the USA and a ferrous scrap business in Cannington, Western Australia. In 2007 the company opened a manufacturing facility in Xuzhou, China, and acquired the Australian foundry supply company Cast Metal Services (CMS). In 2008 it acquired the remaining 80% share of Americast Technologies Inc, and in 2010 it acquired the Canadian oil sands company ALMAC Machine Works Inc. In 2011 it acquired Norcast Wear Solutions in Canada, a supplier of mill liners, and acquired the Australian companies Wear Protect Systems Pty Ltd Overseas Alloys Pty Ltd. In 2013 the company opened the new Global Corporate Centre in Newcastle, Australia and a state-of-the-art greenfield foundry in Xuzhou, China for the manufacture of mining consumables. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bradken」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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