Komatsu Opens New Plant to Produce Large Equipment for Mining Use

Komatsu Ltd. (Masahiro Sakane, President & CEO) has just completed the construction of its new Ibaraki Plant for wheeled large equipment. Komatsu held the opening ceremony today.
Against the backdrop of expanding development of natural resources, such as iron ore, coal and copper, around the world, Komatsu anticipates that orders for its large equipment for mining use will remain at a high level into the future. To meet accelerating growth in demand, Komatsu decided to build a new plant in Japan and started construction in April last year. For the Komatsu Group, this is the first new plant to start up in Japan in 13 years.
The new plant will produce large dump trucks and wheel loaders, over 90% of which will be exported to North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa, Latin America and other regions of the world.
Equipped with a simple assembly platform and IT applications such as IC tags, the new plant features a high degree of flexibility for changes in the volume of production and product specifications. Furthermore, by using the adjacent Port of Hitachinaka, Komatsu will be better positioned than before to ship products which are near completion, and will thus be able to further improve product quality and shorten delivery time.
Komatsu has positioned the Ibaraki Plant as an environment-friendly model plant of the Komatsu Group by reducing CO2 emissions and power consumption through a substantial reduction of on-land transport distance and use of solar panels, respectively.

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