KOMATSU Manuals PDF
History of Komatsu Brand
Above on the page there are several PDF Service Manuals for KOMATSU Tractors, Loaders, Excavators.
Originally the word komatsu sounded in the name of the company "Takeuchi Mining Company" back in 1894.
During the WW1, the company expanded significantly, opening a metallurgical plant and starting to produce equipment for mining enterprises.
But it was the date of birth of the well-known company Komatsu Ltd. historians consider May 13, 1921.
On this day, Mr. Meitaro Takeuchi, having separated from the main enterprise, created his own repair and construction workshop, in which he himself played the role of both the chief engineer and the president of the company.
And he called it "Komatsu Manufacturing".
In 1924 Meitaro Takeuchi builds his first 450-ton belt-forming press.
By 1929, Komatsu already employed 742 people, and very soon the company developed into one of the largest Japanese manufacturers of machine tools and pumps.
In 1931, Komatsu was the first to produce a crawler tractor for agriculture in Japan.
In 1952 he will begin to produce motor graders, which will be his first construction equipment exported to Argentina in 1955.
Now Komatsu Ltd. is the second largest manufacturer of construction and quarry equipment in the world, second only to Caterpillar Inc.
More than 70% of the company's revenues are generated precisely from the sale of this equipment.
Perhaps the most popular are bulldozers, dump trucks, hydraulic excavators, mobile garbage crushers, motor graders, cranes and front loaders.