LBX Company

LBX Link-Belt Excavators
Company typeWholly-owned subsidiary
IndustryHeavy equipment
Predecessors
  • Link-Belt Machinery Company (1986–1998)
  • Link-Belt Company (1906–1986)
  • Link-Belt Construction Equipment Company (1880–1906)
Founded1880 (1880) in Belle Plaine, Iowa, US
FounderWilliam Dana Ewart
HeadquartersLexington, Kentucky, US
Key people
Eric Sauvage (President & CEO)
ParentSumitomo Heavy Industries
Websiteen.lbxco.com

LBX (Link-Belt Excavators) is an American industrial company manufacturing excavators, forestry equipment and scrap material handlers.

Link-Belt is headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky. It is a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Sumitomo Heavy Industries.

LBX shares the Link-Belt brand with its sister company, Link-Belt Cranes. The two companies split in 1998. Sumitomo operates them as separate organizations.

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