or () is a Japanese
multinational corporation
A multinational company (MNC), also referred to as a multinational enterprise (MNE), a transnational enterprise (TNE), a transnational corporation (TNC), an international corporation or a stateless corporation with subtle but contrasting senses, i ...
that manufactures
construction
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,
mining
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,
forestry
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and
military
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equipment, as well as
diesel engine
The diesel engine, named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression; thus, the diesel engine is a so-call ...
s and industrial equipment like press machines, lasers and
thermoelectric generator
A thermoelectric generator (TEG), also called a Seebeck generator, is a solid state device that converts heat flux (temperature differences) directly into electrical energy through a phenomenon called the ''Seebeck effect'' (a form of thermoele ...
s. Its headquarters are in
Minato,
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...
,
Japan
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. The corporation was named after the city of
Komatsu,
Ishikawa Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu island. Ishikawa Prefecture has a population of 1,140,573 (31 October 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,186 km2 (1,616 sq mi). Ishikawa Prefecture borders Toyama Prefecture to ...
, where the company was founded in 1921. Worldwide, the Komatsu Group consists of Komatsu Ltd. and 258 other companies (215 consolidated subsidiaries and 42 companies accounted for by the equity method).
Komatsu is the world's second largest manufacturer of
construction equipment
Heavy equipment or heavy machinery refers to heavy-duty vehicles specially designed to execute construction tasks, most frequently involving earthwork operations or other large construction tasks. ''Heavy equipment'' usually comprises five e ...
and
mining equipment
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic via ...
after
Caterpillar
Caterpillars ( ) are the larval stage of members of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths).
As with most common names, the application of the word is arbitrary, since the larvae of sawflies (suborder Sym ...
. However, in some areas (Japan, China), Komatsu has a larger share than Caterpillar. It has manufacturing operations in Japan, Asia, Americas and Europe.
The word ''ko-matsu'' means "small
pine tree
A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus ''Pinus'' () of the family Pinaceae. ''Pinus'' is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae. The World Flora Online created by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden ac ...
" () in
Japanese
Japanese may refer to:
* Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
* Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
** Japanese diaspor ...
.
History
Komatsu Iron Works was started by Takeuchi Mining Industry as a subsidiary to make industrial tools for the parent company. Komatsu eventually became large enough to sell to the public, and was spun off on May 13, 1921 as Komatsu Ltd and founded by Meitaro Takeuchi.
Komatsu produced its first agricultural tractor prototype in 1931. Through the 1930s, Komatsu also produced tractors for the Japanese military, as well as
bulldozer
A bulldozer or dozer (also called a crawler) is a large, motorized machine equipped with a metal blade to the front for pushing material: soil, sand, snow, rubble, or rock during construction work. It travels most commonly on continuous track ...
s,
tank
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s and
howitzer
A howitzer () is a long- ranged weapon, falling between a cannon (also known as an artillery gun in the United States), which fires shells at flat trajectories, and a mortar, which fires at high angles of ascent and descent. Howitzers, like ot ...
s. After
World War II
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, under its new president Yoshinari Kawai, Komatsu added non-military bulldozers and
forklift
A forklift (also called lift truck, jitney, hi-lo, fork truck, fork hoist, and forklift truck) is a powered industrial truck used to lift and move materials over short distances. The forklift was developed in the early 20th century by various c ...
s to its line of equipment. In 1949 it began production of its first diesel engine.
[Haycraft, William R. (2000) ''Yellow Steel: The Story of the Earthmoving Equipment Industry'' University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois]
pages 183-184
Its growth as a company was aided by the strong demand for its bulldozers during Japan's post-war reconstruction in the 1950s.
In August 1951 the corporate headquarters were moved to Tokyo. By 1957 the company had advanced technologically to the point that all its models were using Komatsu engines.
![Komatsu 61PX Planierraupe 1](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Komatsu_61PX_Planierraupe_1.JPG)
In 1964, Rioichi Kawai, son of Yoshinari Kawai, became president of Komatsu,
and it began exporting its products, looking to counteract the postwar image of Japanese products as being cheap and poorly made. In July 1967, it entered the U.S. market, taking on
Caterpillar
Caterpillars ( ) are the larval stage of members of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths).
As with most common names, the application of the word is arbitrary, since the larvae of sawflies (suborder Sym ...
,
[Haycraft, William R. (2000) ''Yellow Steel: The Story of the Earthmoving Equipment Industry'' University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois]
page 260
the largest bulldozer maker, in its home market. This was done under the company slogan of "Maru-C", translating into English as "encircle Caterpillar" (from the game of
Go (board game)
Go is an abstract strategy board game for two players in which the aim is to surround more territory than the opponent. The game was invented in China more than 2,500 years ago and is believed to be the oldest board game continuously played to ...
, where encircling an opponent results in capture of his territory).
Expansion overseas was a major focus in the 1970s, with Komatsu America Corporation being established in February 1970 in the
United States
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. A year later, in January 1971, Komatsu Singapore Pte. Ltd. was established in
Singapore
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. September 1974 saw the founding of Dina Komatsu Nacional S.A. de C.V., a joint venture with truck maker
DINA S.A.
DINA (''Diesel Nacional, S.A. de C.V'', in English: ''National Diesel'') is a Mexican bus and truck manufacturer based in Ciudad Sahagún, Hidalgo, Mexico. It was created by the federal government of Mexico in 1951 as Diesel Nacional, S.A., and ...
in
Mexico
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. April 1975 was the founding Komatsu do Brasil Ltda. in
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
. This company produced the
Komatsu D50A bulldozer, marking Komatsu's first offshore production of construction equipment. Komatsu Australia Pty., Ltd. in
Australia
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was established in Feb. 1979.
In the 1980s, Komatsu and
International Harvester
The International Harvester Company (often abbreviated by IHC, IH, or simply International ( colloq.)) was an American manufacturer of agricultural and construction equipment, automobiles, commercial trucks, lawn and garden products, household e ...
of the
United States
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had a joint venture to produce compact tractors called
KIMCO
Kimco Realty® (NYSE:KIM) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) headquartered in Jericho, N.Y. that is North America’s largest publicly traded owner and operator of open-air, grocery-anchored shopping centers, including mixed-use assets. The ...
. In 1982, PT Komatsu Indonesia was founded and production began in 1983 in
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...
. In 1985, two manufacturing divisions were established in the
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...
, including the company's first U.S. plant in
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Chattanooga ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States. Located along the Tennessee River bordering Georgia, it also extends into Marion County on its western end. With a population of 181,099 in 2020, ...
, Komatsu America Manufacturing Corp. and Komatsu America Industries LLC. Komatsu Industries Europe GmbH was set up in 1986 in then-
West Germany
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.
In 1987, Komatsu and
BEML
BEML Limited, formerly Bharat Earth Movers Limited, is an Indian Public Sector Undertaking, headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. It manufactures a variety of heavy equipment, such as that used for earth moving, railways, transport an ...
formed a joint-venture known as BEML Komatsu.
Komatsu and
Dresser Industries
Dresser Industries was a multinational corporation headquartered in Dallas, Texas, United States, which provided a wide range of technology, products, and services used for developing energy and natural resources. In 1998, Dresser merged with its ...
established ''Komatsu Dresser'' to make mining tractors and related equipment in 1988.
[Will, Oscar H. (2007) ''Payline: International Harvester's Construction Equipment Division'' MBI, St. Paul, Minnesota]
page 144
This 50-50 ownership lasted from September 1988 to August 1994, when Komatsu bought out Dresser's share.
Komatsu's mining products were consolidated under the name Komatsu Mining Systems in 1997. To prevent brand-name confusion during these corporate changes, the name "
Haulpak
Haulpak was a very successful line of off-highway mining trucks. The name was used from 1953 until around 1999; the line continues under the Komatsu name. The name was adopted as Wabco Haulpak when R. G. LeTourneau's business was bought by Wab ...
" was used for the product line Komatsu began with Dresser. The name "Haulpak" dates back to 1957 when LeTourneau-Westinghouse introduced a range of rear dump trucks known as "Haulpaks". LeTourneau-Westinghouse equipment later became known simply as WABCO equipment in 1967. The name Haulpak was an industry term that eventually became applied to any type of rear dump truck. A detailed history of the development of the Haulpak can be found in Wabco Australia.
In 1989, Komatsu bought a share of
Hanomag AG and since 2002 Komatsu Hanomag GmbH has been a 100% subsidiary of the global company.
During the 1990s Komatsu had a joint venture in Europe with
Moxy Moxy may refer to:
* Moxy (airline), formerly proposed name for the airline Breeze Airways in the United States
* Moxy (band), a Canadian hard rock band formed in the 1970s
** ''Moxy'' (album), 1975
** '' Moxy II'', 1976
* Moxy Engineering, a No ...
were Komatsu designed Articulated Dump Truck were built under license for the European market by Moxy. (In 2008 Moxy was taken over by
Doosan of Korea.)
FAI of
Italy
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was invested in during 1991. As Komatsu's equity increased, the company was renamed in 1985 to FKI Fai Komatsu Industries S.p.A., which was then renamed in 2000 to ''Komatsu Utility Europe S.p.A.'' when Komatsu assumed 100% ownership.
Komatsu owns the former
Demag
Demag Cranes AG is a German heavy equipment manufacturer now controlled by Japan-based Tadano via a $215 million deal. The roots of Demag date back prior to its formation, but became Märkische Maschinenbau-Anstalt, Ludwig A.-G in 1906 as the ...
range of
Mining Machines, which have been upgraded but are basically the same, with the
PC3000 being the old
Demag H185, of which over 200 have been built under both brands/model numbers.
In 1993, two joint ventures were formed with
Cummins
Cummins Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and distributes engines, filtration, and power generation products. Cummins also services engines and related equipment, including fuel systems, controls, air ...
; Komatsu Cummins Engine Corporation (KCEC) to manufacture Cummins engines in Japan, and the Cummins Komatsu Engine Corporation (CKEC) to manufacture Komatsu engines in the
United States
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. Another joint venture was set up in 1997 to manufacture industrial engines in Japan.
Additional overseas expansion, primarily in
Asia
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, was accomplished in the 1990s. Komatsu Vietnam Co., Ltd. in
Vietnam
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in 1995; Komatsu Changlin Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. (renamed Komatsu (Changzhou) Construction Machinery Corporation in November 2000) in
Changzhou
Changzhou ( Changzhounese: ''Zaon Tsei'', ) is a prefecture-level city in southern Jiangsu province, China. It was previously known as Yanling, Lanling and Jinling. Located on the southern bank of the Yangtze River, Changzhou borders the provin ...
,
China
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in 1995; Komatsu Shantui Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. in 1995; Bangkok Komatsu Co., Ltd. in
Thailand
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; Komatsu (Shanghai) Ltd. in 1996 in
Shanghai
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, China; Industrial Power Alliance Ltd. in Japan, a joint venture with
Cummins
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, in 1998;
L&T-Komatsu Limited in
India
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in 1998 (shares sold in 2013); and Komatsu Brasil International Ltda. in
Brazil
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in 1998.
The 2000s saw Komatsu working with
The Linde Group
Linde plc is a global multinational chemical company founded in Germany and, since 2018, domiciled in Ireland and headquartered in the United Kingdom. Linde is the world's largest industrial gas company by market share and revenue. It serves ...
of
Germany
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for sales and manufacturing of
lift truck
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s. In 2001, Komatsu established ''GALEO'' as a new brand of new-generation construction equipment for worldwide distribution. 2002, Komatsu Italy S.p.A. was established. In 2004, Komatsu Forest AB was established to purchase
Sweden
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's Partek Forest AB, formerly
Valtra
Valtra is an agricultural machinery manufacturer based in Äänekoski, Finland. Valtra's products include tractors, combine harvesters, sugar cane harvesters, self-propelled sprayers and seed drills. Valtra has been part of the American AGCO Cor ...
and
Valmet
Valmet Oyj is a Finnish company and a developer and supplier of technologies, automation systems and services for the pulp (paper), pulp, paper and energy industry, energy industries.
Valmet has over 200 years of history as an industrial oper ...
, a manufacturer of forest machinery. Also in 2004, founded Komatsu Zenoah (Shandong) Machine Co., Ltd in China, (renamed Komatsu Utility Machine Co., Ltd. in 2007), to manufacture mini excavators and hydraulic equipment, as well as founding Komatsu Power Generation Systems (Shanghai) Ltd. to manufacture
power generator
Electricity generation is the process of generating electric power from sources of primary energy. For utilities in the electric power industry, it is the stage prior to its delivery ( transmission, distribution, etc.) to end users or its sto ...
s. Komatsu Forklift Manufacturing (China) Co., Ltd was also founded in 2004 in China to produce
forklift
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s.
Komatsu moved into
Russia
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in 2008 with Komatsu Manufacturing Rus, LLC being founded, and production began in 2010.
Sites included Kaluga oblast Sankt Petersburg (1), Yaroslavl (1), Moscow area (2 - 3), Krasnodar (1), and Ekaterinburg and in Kemerovo Oblast (1). According to Komatsu operations in Russia were suspended in 2022
In 2016, Komatsu agreed to acquire Joy Global for 3.7 B(US$). Joy Global was the reorganized and recapitalized entity of Harnischfeger Industries of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Harnischfeger Industries was a holding company that consisted of Joy Manufacturing Co., of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a maker of underground coal mining equipment; P&H Mining Equipment, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a maker of large open pit mining equipment which includes electric rope shovels, blast hole drills and draglines, P&H MinePro Services, a product support entity that provides parts and service support for all types and makes of open pit and underground mining equipment, LeTourneau Manufacturing of Longview, Texas, a maker of large rubber tired wheel loaders. The acquisition was completed in April 2017, operating as separate subsidiary with the US headquarters located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA and renamed Komatsu Mining Corp.
In December 2022, it was announced Komatsu had acquired the
Gelsenkirchen
Gelsenkirchen (, , ; wep, Gelsenkiärken) is the 25th most populous city of Germany and the 11th most populous in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia with 262,528 (2016) inhabitants. On the Emscher River (a tributary of the Rhine), it lies ...
-headquartered manufacturer of underground mining, tunnelling and special civil engineering equipment, GHH Group GmbH.
Product range
* Komatsu makes the largest bulldozer in the world, the
D575.
* P&H 4800 electric rope shovel.
* 930E Diesel-electric Haulpak truck
* In 2008, Komatsu launched the
Komatsu PC200-8 Hybrid, a 360-degree excavator that stores the energy from slew-braking to boost power and cut fuel use.
File:Komatsu PC210 LC.JPG, Komatsu PC210 LC excavator during peak summer conditions in San Antonio, Texas
File:Komatsu PC138US Leigné 86 2013.jpg, Komatsu PC138 US on a roadside in France
File:Komatsu bulldozer pushing coal in Power plant Ljubljana (winter 2017).jpg, Bulldozer Komatsu D85 PX with semi-U tilt doze pushing coal on Power Station
File:Komatsu HM300.jpg, Komatsu HM300 Articulated Dump Truck
File:Komatsu WA 380, Bj. 2016 (2017-08-27 3723 Sp).jpg, Loader Komatsu WA 380, built in 2016
File:JGSDF Light Armored vehicle 20120108-01.JPG, A Komatsu LAV
The is a Japanese military vehicle first produced in 2002. Currently used exclusively by the Japan Self-Defense Force (JSDF), it has seen use in the Iraq War. It is built by Komatsu Ltd. Defense Systems Division in Komatsu, Ishikawa, Japan. Koma ...
(Light Armored Vehicle
A military armored (or armoured) car is a lightweight wheeled armored fighting vehicle, historically employed for reconnaissance, internal security, armed escort, and other subordinate battlefield tasks. With the gradual decline of mounted c ...
) on display with 1st Airborne Brigade (Japan) markings.
See also
*
Hanomag
Hanomag (Hannoversche Maschinenbau AG, ) was a German producer of steam locomotives, tractors, trucks and military vehicles in Hanover. Hanomag first achieved international fame by delivering numerous steam locomotives to Finland, Romania and ...
— now a Komatsu subsidiary
* - A History of Komatsu Construction and Mining Equipment Volume One
*
Type 60 Self-propelled 106 mm Recoilless Gun
The is a light anti-tank vehicle developed by Japan in the late 1950s. It mounts two M40 106 mm recoilless rifles as its main armament.
Development
In the mid-1950s the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force contracted for one prototype each from K ...
(JGSDF)
*
Komatsu LAV
The is a Japanese military vehicle first produced in 2002. Currently used exclusively by the Japan Self-Defense Force (JSDF), it has seen use in the Iraq War. It is built by Komatsu Ltd. Defense Systems Division in Komatsu, Ishikawa, Japan. Koma ...
(JGSDF/JASDF)
*
Type 89 Infantry Fighting Vehicle (JGSDF)
*
Type 96 Armored Personnel Carrier
The is an armoured vehicle that entered service with Japan in 1996. This vehicle complements the existing fleet of tracked Type 73 Armored Personnel Carriers already in service.
Description
The driver sits on the right side of the vehicle wit ...
(JGSDF)
*
Otto
Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', ''Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity".
The name is recorded fro ...
References
External links
*
Drones’ Next Job: Construction Work Komatsu to Use Unmanned Aircraft, Bulldozers to Automate Early Foundation Work''The Wall Street Journal'' (Online edition, Business Section, January 20, 2015)
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