Here a smaller overview of the worlds major brands of heavy construction equipment, the type of equipment they make and a tiny corporation history:
The Case Corporation was made 1842 in America and manufactured threshing machines in its starting. From 1912 the production was extended to the sector of farm equipment and road construction machinery. In 1957, Case acquires American Tractor Corporation – manufacturer of excavators and establishes like this to a internationally effectively-recognized firm in the building machinery sector. The Case Corporation with its machinery brands Case CE (Case Building Equipment) for building machines and Case IH (Case Internationally Harvester, considering that 1985) for agricultural machinery fused in November 1999 with each other with New Holland to the CNH Group. Apart from Case and New Holland, O&K, Fiat Kobelco and Kobelco belong to the CNH Group as effectively..
Caterpillar Inc. ( zemní práce , USA) is the world’s largest manufacturer of building machines. Caterpillar’s Solution ranges comprehend Earth moving Machinery and Road Construction Gear as properly as Engines: for instance: Excavators of all varieties, wheel loaders and crawler loaders, scrapers, graders, dozers, and so forth.
Worth recognizing: 1 of the founders of Caterpillar, Mr. Benjamin Holt, is considered to be the inventor of the chain drive assembly for crawler machines.
The machinery production’s sector of the South Korean multinational Daewoo was sold in 2005 to Doosan Infracore. Since then construction equipment, trucks and trailer are sold by the name Doosan-Daewoo. Doosan has a sales network all around the world and distributes via it the complete range of crawler excavators, wheeled excavators, wheel loaders and skid steer loaders.
The Japanese Hitachi Ltd. Corporation is among the 50 largest enterprises in the planet. Known as an electronic enterprise, they produce as well building equipment under the name Hitachi Building Machinery: crawler and wheeled excavators of all sizes, telescopic functioning platforms, wheel loaders, off highway and given that the uptake of Euclid as nicely off-highway trucks for plant and building. Hitachi became, small by little, a complete line manufacturer for machinery, just after ending the cooperation with Fiat (Fiat-Hitachi).
Hyundai Heavy Industries Co.Ltd. is element of the South-Korean Hyundai and produces building gear and boat equipment. The machines are distributed in the network franchised Hyundai Construction Gear around the globe. The machines productions includes Skid steer excavators, wheel and crawler excavator, wheel loader, skid steer loader and of course as well forklift of all type.
JCB (according to its founder Joseph Cyril Bamford) it is the forth most significant machinery manufacturer in the globe. JCB produces among other individuals backhoe loaders (the 3 CX is the most thriving item ), tele handler, crawler excavators and wheel excavators and below the name JCB Vibromax even rollers for compaction.
JCB is active as effectively in the agriculture field with their Fastrac tractors. It is a single of the few enterprises in this sector of machines manufacturer that nevertheless has got a loved ones conduction.
Komatsu Ltd is the second biggest construction gear manufacturer planet wide right after Caterpillar. Apart from construction machinery, the Japanese business with head quarters in Tokyo produces: electronics, fork-lifts, generators, compressors and industrial robots. As a full-liner, Komatsu sells over one hundred distinctive building machine sorts, from mini excavator to telehandler up to mobile crushers. In 1995 Hanomag, the German machinery manufacturer became component of the Komatsu Group and now produces below the name Komatsu Hanomag AG wheel loaders in Hanover. Exciting: Komatsu produces the biggest bulldozer of the world (Komatsu D 575) with 132 tons.
Liebherr AG is an international company that produces apart from construction gear also aero space equipment and household appliances. The machinery solution line of Liebherr contains excavators, Bulldozers, Wheel loaders, Off High-Way Trucks and Mining Gear. Outstanding: At the Bauma fair in Munich in 2004 Liebherr presented the world’s largest dump truck – the Liebherr T282.The new Liebherr wheel loader series are meant to be extremely economical in fuel consumption. Apart, Liebherr is Specialist for Cranes of all kinds. By the way, a Liebherr Tower Crane was their initially solution launched in 1949. Currently Liebherr cranes solution range goes from mobile cranes to quay cranes.