Official website (https://www.komatsu.jp/en)
Komatsu Limited
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Japanese industrial machinery company
Key facts
- Native name
- 株式会社小松製作所
- Company type
- Public
- Traded as
- TYO : 6301 , TOPIX Large 70 Component
- Industry
- Heavy equipment ( construction , mining and forestry ), Defense technology
- Founded
- Komatsu, Ishikawa 13 May 1921 ; 105 years ago ( 1921-05-13 )
- Founder
- Meitaro Takeuchi
- Headquarters
- Tokyo , Japan
- Key people
- Hiroyuki Ogawa [ jp ] , ( president and CEO ) Tetsuji Ohashi [ jp ] (chairman of the board)
- Products
- Construction equipment Mining equipment Diesel engines Forestry equipment Industrial machinery Military vehicles Gearboxes Axles
- Revenue
- ¥2.444 trillion (2019)
- Operating income
- ¥250.7 billion (2019)
- Net income
- ¥153.8 billion (2019)
- Number of employees
- 59,632 (consolidated)
- Website
- komatsu .jp /en
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company, Funder
- Founded
- 1921
- Location
- Tokyo, Japan
- Also known as
- Kabushiki-gaisha Komatsu Seisakusho
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.471189.2 · ISNI 0000 0004 1805 8454
Official website
Komatsu global site
Komatsu is a global leading manufacturer of construction, mining and forestry equipment as well as forklift and industrial machinery.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- enterprise
- Country
- Japan
- Headquarters
- Tokyo
- Stock exchange
- Tokyo Stock Exchange
- Legal form
- kabushiki gaisha
- Official website
- www.komatsu.jp/en
- Image
- KOMATSU Buildng, 2017.jpg
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- native label
- コマツ
- Commons category
- Komatsu Limited
- topic's main category
- Category:Komatsu Limited
- inception
- 1921-00-00
- product or material produced
- armored car
- owner of
- Hanomag
- location of formation
- Tokyo
- different from
- Komatsu
- number of viewers/listeners
- 479515
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Encyclopedic overview
Komatsu Ltd. (株式会社小松製作所, Kabushiki-gaisha Komatsu Seisakusho) or Komatsu (コマツ) is a Japanese multinational corporation that manufactures construction, mining, forestry and military heavy equipment, as well as diesel engines and industrial equipment like press machines, lasers and thermoelectric generators. Its headquarters are in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The corporation was named after the city of Komatsu, Ishikawa Prefecture, where the company was founded in 1921. The word ko-matsu itself means "small pine tree" (小松) in Japanese. 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 and mining equipment after Caterpillar. However, in some areas (Japan, China), Komatsu has a larger share than Caterpillar. It has manufacturing operations in Japan, Asia, Americas and Europe.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Komatsu Limited” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.