Why KITO
Our claim
We stand for highest safety and efficiency.
We fight every single day to make sure Kito Crosby product users get home safely to their families.
Our vision
To be the world's best manufacturer for light lifting technology.
Our mission
Exceeding your expectations with customised product solutions and excellent service.
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Why KITO
Through our world-leading quality - above industrial standards - we elevate expectations, meet new challenges and deliver resilient customized solutions:
Safety, Durability, Efficiency
Worldwide
Kito Crosby is the global leader of the lifting and securement industry it pioneered, and for which it continues to set the quality standard. With global engineering, manufacturing, distribution, and operations, the company provides a broad range of products and solutions for the most demanding applications. Kito Crosby’s people, products, solutions, and services have innovated the lifting and securement industry for more than 250 years. Together we lift and secure the world today, for a safer, stronger, and more productive tomorrow. Our iconic brands include Kito, Crosby, Harrington, Gunnebo Industries, and Peerless.
This is KITO.
This is us
The KITO History
1932
1932
Foundation of the Kito Manufacturing Company in Omori, Tokyo.
1947
1947
Development of the first lever hoist of its kind in Japan.
1958
1958
Development of the first Series 57 electric chain hoist.
1959
1959
Development of the KITO MIGHTY. The first manual chain hoist with hardened chains.
1998
1998
Development of the ER electric chain hoists. Obtaining certification according to the international standard ISO 9001.
2001
2001
Obtaining certification according to the international standard ISO 14001.
2006
2007-1
2007-2
2011
2012
2012
Launch of KITO EUROPE's first DemoVan, which brings KITO products to the end customer.
2016
2018
2020
2020
KITO Van Leusden is founded through the acquisition of all shares in Van Leusden in the Netherlands.
2022
2022
Product launch of the first electric wire rope hoist in Europe: The RX electric wire rope hoist. Product launch of the LB-SL lever hoist.
