Komatsu makes construction and mining equipment in India, including dump trucks and hydraulic excavators, at its wholly owned plant at Oragadam near Chennai. Larsen and Toubro acts as its sales and service distributor in the country.
Ownership and structure
Komatsu India Private Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Komatsu. Its excavator joint venture with Larsen and Toubro ended in 2013.
What India does for Komatsu
India is a manufacturing base for Komatsu, making dump trucks and excavators near Chennai for India, the Middle East and Africa.
Komatsu's India business
Komatsu opened its first overseas office in Kolkata in 1964 and moved it to Bengaluru in 1967. Komatsu India Private Limited was incorporated in December 2005 with its registered office in the SIPCOT industrial park at Oragadam.
The Oragadam plant opened in 2007 and began with dump trucks for mining. After its excavator joint venture with Larsen and Toubro ended in April 2013, Komatsu moved excavator production to its own Chennai factory in 2015.
Key moves in India
- 1964: Komatsu opened its first overseas office in Kolkata.
- 1998: Komatsu and Larsen and Toubro formed L&T Komatsu to make hydraulic excavators.
- 2005: Komatsu India Private Limited was incorporated in December as a wholly owned subsidiary.
- 2007: The Oragadam plant near Chennai opened, starting with mining dump trucks.
- 2008: Komatsu India began exporting dump trucks.
- 2013: The joint venture with Larsen and Toubro was dissolved in April and Komatsu took over excavator production.
- 2015: Komatsu opened a wholly owned excavator factory in Chennai.
Where it operates
Komatsu runs its India business from Chennai. It also has a presence in Bengaluru and Nagpur.
At a glance
- Home country: Japan
- Global headquarters: Tokyo
- Sector: Manufacturing & Supply Chains
- Business: Construction and mining equipment
- Role of India: Sales market, Manufacturing base, Export base
- India entity: Komatsu India Private Limited
- India head office: Chennai
- India offices: Chennai, Bengaluru, Nagpur
- India headcount: Not available
- In India since: 1964
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