We build gentle giants

We build machines to answer the needs of society

For more than a century, our brand has been synonymous with connection to community. It guides everything we do, from the ways we think about innovation, to how we hire and train new employees around the world, and how we build relationships with our customers.

Named after the town where our business grew, Komatsu has always found its strength in the convergence of people and purpose. We believe that when people are united by a common goal, the truly remarkable happens.

Read on to explore how our products, people and technologies are helping advance society, today and for the future.

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Tenerife Wildfire Fighters

Tenerife, the largest of Spain’s Canary Islands, is a mixture of hot climate and pine forests which creates a paradise highly susceptible to wildfires. Since 2022, Komatsu’s forestry machines have played a key role in helping the local government protect the island’s national parks from these fires. Thanks to the ongoing development of our smart technology, park rangers can plan the work directly from the office. Trees are marked in the field using a tablet, with precision down to the centimeter. Machine operators are able to minimize ground damage by getting the best driving routes to support forest conservation, even receiving operational updates in real time from the office. Read more in detail about the project and how our Smart Forestry technology can help limit environmental impact while supporting vital conservation efforts.

Learn more about the work to protect wildlife and natural environments through our short anime feature: ‘Stories of gentle giants: Tenerife wildfire fighters’.

Tenerife Wildfire Fighters

Smart technology helping protect forest from wildfire

How Komatsu forestry equipment with Smart Forestry technology is helping the Spanish government protect the forest in Tenerife from wildfire – and what this means for the future of wildfire management.

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Demining Cambodia

Komatsu’s demining dozers are working to clear active landmines in Cambodia.

Learn more and see how we rebuild affected communities.

Past, present and future - it´s all about community.

In 1921, Meitaro Takeuchi founded our company in the town that shares our name. He did so to provide work for the local community after the closure of a nearby copper mine.

For more than a century, our connection to the communities where we operate has stayed at the core of our brand. It guides everything we do, from the ways we think about innovation, to how we hire and train new employees around the world, and how we build relationships with our customers.

Today, we have come a long way from where we started. We have evolved into a truly global company with a diverse workforce comprised of different nationalities and beliefs. And it’s by harnessing the potential of all our different talents and unique perspectives that we push ourselves further.

We explore and help advance the boundaries of technology, developing smart construction equipment and autonomous mining trucks, creating underwater electric bulldozers and even conceptualizing an excavator capable of operating on the moon. Our products and solutions directly support industries essential to the ongoing development of modern societies and everyday life.

For our core customers in forestry, construction and mining, we make big machines that take on even bigger challenges, gentle giants answering the needs of society.

We believe that when people are united by a common goal, the truly remarkable happens. In communities across the globe, we find purpose in creating value through manufacturing and technology innovation to empower a sustainable future where people, business, and our planet thrive together. Harnessing our collective expertise to go further, we stay true to our brand promise: Creating value together.

Learn more about who we are.