Komatsu Limited

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K. K. Komatsu Seisakusho (Japanese株式会社 小松 制作 所, Kabushiki Kaisha Komatsu Seisakusho, Eng. Komatsu Ltd. ), Listed on the Nikkei 225 equity index, is a Japanese industrial group headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. At the Komatsu Group worldwide include 185 companies and 25 factories. Komatsu is the second largest construction equipment manufacturer in the world.

Komatsu and Caterpillar build aggregated approximately 85% of mining machinery produced in the world.

History

Komatsu was founded on May 13, 1921. The company has been present for a long time in Asia alone in any significant way. 1988 they founded together with Dresser Industries, a joint venture under the name Komatsu Dresser for the production and distribution of construction machinery. Only through the application of a number of small European producers in Germany Hanomag (1989 to 2002) and the hydraulic excavator division of Demag (since 1996, first as a joint venture ), Komatsu was able to achieve a larger market share in Europe. 1993 agreed to a collaboration with Cummins. 1999 saw the purchase of the Finnish forklift manufacturer Kalmar Industries whose North American subsidiary Kalmar AC. 2003 bought by Komatsu Kone their daughter Partek Forest.

2007, the company had nearly 34,000 employees. Komatsu generated sales of 16.4 billion U.S. dollars in fiscal year 2006/ 2007.

Products and works

Headquarters in Germany, the Hanover factory, which is located on parts of the former factory site of the engineering plant Hanomag. The product range includes a variety of construction equipment. Its products include various types of excavators, such as backhoe loaders, crawler excavators, wheeled excavators and mini excavators. The program includes various wheel loader vehicles such as skid steer loaders and telescopic loaders; Moreover, bulldozers and dump trucks. Below that is the world's largest bulldozer Komatsu D575 with 150 tons total weight. A mining excavators up to. 720 t operating weight and a bucket capacity of 40 cubic meters is one of them. Other technical products are forklift trucks, industrial robots, compressors and generators. Another important location is in Dusseldorf, where the Komatsu Mining Germany GmbH is located at the Buscher Hofstraße 10 on a former site of Mannesmann Demag Construction GmbH in Hassel's district and manufactures mining excavator.

Production hall in former Hanomag Hall

Shovel ( Komatsu Hanomag, Germany )

Komatsu bulldozer

Wheel Loader WA 250