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steelworks employees, General
Manager Leslie Bradford and Chief Mechanical Engineer Jim Kendall and a group of their friends backed a racehorse named Jack Findlay that 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
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is a manufacturer and supplier of differentiated consumable and capital products to the mining, transport, general industrial and contract manufacturing markets with operations in
Australia, China, Canada, India, Malaysia and the United States. It is a subsidiary of
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In July 2011 Norcast Wear
Solutions in Canada and SwanMet in Malaysia were purchased. In March 2013 Bradken opened a greenfield foundry development in Xuzhou, China following the construction of a manufacturing facility on the site in 2007. In October 2016
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had acquired the
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On 28 April 1920, Bradford and
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launched a takeover offer for
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and undercarriages. In the 1930s it entered the export market, manufacturing
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Now integrated into other
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Hitachi
Construction to buy Australiaâs Bradken for $ 528 million
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for use in Malaysia. In 1948 the company was listed on the
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small fortune pledging their winnings to start a steel
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Hitachi Construction to buy Bradken for $ 689 million
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16:Manufacturing company
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301:Bradford Kendall Ltd
115:$ 819 million (2016)
107:, mining consumables
967:Hitachi Flora Prius
812:Renesas Electronics
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871:Hitachi Magic Wand
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703:Joint ventures and
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60:Jim Kendall
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1007:Travelstar
1002:Microdrive
267:References
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168:business.
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289:History
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155:History
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132:Website
112:Revenue
55:Founder
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40:Foundry
22:Bradken
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780:Former
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671:Fabrik
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