Ken Takeda

Delivering the Reliability of the Kawasaki Brand to the United States Kawasaki is Japan’s leading manufacturer of rolling stock. Since it began operations in 1906, the company has produced a succession of vehicles that have left their mark on railway history, including Japan’s first privately made steam locomotive and first aluminum alloy train. From express and commuter trains to locomotives, freight cars, monorails, and new transit systems, Kawasaki is engaged in a broad range of business. Within these product areas, the company performs development, design, and manufacturing of high-speed trains such as the well-known Shinkansen, leveraging advance technologies such as aerodynamics expertise of its Aerospace Division. Kawasaki’s engineering expertise has always provided innovation. Kawasaki's state of the art technologies make it possible to achieve new levels of safety, reliability and comfort. Reliability that has exceeded customer specifications and expectations and have provided our customers savings in maintaining and operating their vehicles. From its Hyogo Works main factory and two manufacturing sites, in Lincoln, Nebraska and Yonkers, New York, the company delivers Kawasaki brand rolling stock to the U.S., which provide solutions for the many challenges facing our customers. Kawasaki is committed to delivering rolling stock that has become vital to Transit Agencies and people’s daily lives that are sustainable and environmentally friendly.