Tata Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Pvt Ltd[1] or THCMC is an India-based joint venture company between Tata Motors of India (40%) and Hitachi Construction Machinery of Japan (60%).[2] It was previously known as Telco Construction Equipment Co. Ltd. or Telcon for short.
Tata Hitachi's product lineup includes a wide range of excavators:[3] from 2T – 800T Excavators, 35T to 290T Rigid dump trucks, Wheel Loaders and Backhoe Loaders. Tata Hitachi has two manufacturing facilities at Dharwad – Karnataka and Kharagpur – West Bengal.
History
The company commenced manufacturing of construction equipment in 1961, as a division of TATA Engineering and Locomotive Company (TELCO), now