Commercial Construction Companies

Here is a brief overview of the world’s leading brands of heavy construction equipment, the type of material they produce and a little history:

The Case Corporation was founded in 1842 in America and produced threshing machines in its infancy. In 1912 the production of agricultural equipment and machinery for road construction has been extended. In 1957, Case acquired American Tractor Corporation – manufacturer of excavators and it is known as a company in the field of Construction. The Case Corporation, with its machinery brands Case CE (Case Construction Equipment) merged for Construction and Case IH (Case International Harvester, since 1985) for agricultural machines in November 1999 with New Holland CNH group. Apart from Case and New Holland, O & K, Kobelco Fiat Kobelco and CNH as well belong to the group ..

Caterpillar Inc. (Illinois, USA) is the world’s largest manufacturer of construction equipment. Caterpillar product lines enter the earth and road construction machinery and engines, for example: all types of excavators, wheel loaders and crawler loaders, scrapers, graders, excavators, etc.
Good to know: one of the founders of Caterpillar, Benjamin Holt, is considered the inventor of the chain drive assembly for tracked vehicles.

The range of production machines in the South Korean multinational Daewoo was sold in 2005 to Doosan Infracore. Since construction equipment, trucks and trailers are sold under the name Doosan-Daewoo. Doosan has a worldwide distribution network and distributes it throughout the range of crawler excavators, wheeled excavators, wheel loaders and skid steer loader.

Japan’s Hitachi Ltd. Corporation is among the 50 largest companies in the world. Known as an electronics company, they produce and how the machinery Hitachi Construction Machinery tracks and wheeled excavators all sizes, telescopic work platforms, construction equipment, and by the absorption of Euclid highway and off-highway vehicles in the factory and the building. Hitachi has piece by piece, a manufacturer of complete line of machines, with the cooperation with Fiat (Fiat-Hitachi) ended.

Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd.. is part of South Korea’s Hyundai and manufactures equipment for construction and equipment of the boat. The machines are distributed in the network of franchised Hyundai Construction Equipment in the world. Production machines include mini excavators, wheeled excavators, wheel loaders, skid steer loaders and forklift as of course, and all sorts.

JCB (after its founder, Joseph Cyril Bamford) is the largest manufacturer of machines around the world. JCB manufactures including backhoe loaders, TV manager, excavators and wheeled excavators and JCB Vibromax the same as roller compaction (CX 3 is the most successful product).
JCB is both in the field of agriculture with tractors Fastrac active. It is one of the few companies in the industry, the mechanical engineer who has always been a family business.

Komatsu Ltd. is the second largest producer in the world of construction machinery for Caterpillar wide. Apart from construction, the Japanese company with headquarters in Tokyo Product: Electronics, forklifts, generators, compressors and industrial robots. As a full-liner, Komatsu sells over 100 different types of construction machinery, mini excavator telescopic arm to mobile crusher. In 1995, Hanomag, the German manufacturer of machines are part of the Komatsu Group and now produces under the name Hanomag Komatsu wheel loaders AG in Hanover. Interesting: Komatsu bulldozer of the largest manufactures in the world (Komatsu D 575) with 132 tons.

Liebherr AG is an international company that produces outside of aerodynamic equipment and machinery and equipment. The product range includes machines from Liebherr excavators, bulldozers, wheel loaders Wheel, Off High-Way trucks and mining equipment. Note: If introduced Bauma 2004 in Munich Liebherr trucks in the world’s largest landfills – Liebherr T282.The new series of Liebherr wheel loaders are designed to create very efficient fuel consumption. In addition, Liebherr is a specialist in cranes of all types. In addition, a Liebherr tower crane its first product in 1949 was launched. Today Liebherr cranes range of products ranging from mobile cranes, quay cranes.

New Holland since 1999, the company CNH. Previously, she produced agricultural equipment, but now a part of the tractor, they sell many other types of machines.
The line of heavy equipment such as bulldozers, excavators, graders and wheel loaders. In the production of light, you will find all sizes of mini-excavators and skid steer loaders and telescopic loaders.
Appear under the name New Holland brand formerly known as the Fiat-Kobelco, Kobelco, O & K y

Roberto Perlini in 1957, the Italian manufacturer of construction and Perlini core dump truck financing. Perlini in 1961 began the production of off-road track for earthmoving and construction equipment. Today they produce a dump truck in Vicenza, Italy, and market their products around the world.

Terex is an American manufacturer of traditional cranes up to 1995 they began their history of acquisition. Today, the Terex group consists of many traditional manufacturers – built in whole or in part in the group. Here is a list of know most American brands, American Truck Company, Atlas, Benford, CMI, Demag, Fermec, Finlay, Fuchs, Genie, O & K, Pegson, Peiner, Powerscreen, PPM and Schaeff.

The Volvo Group, headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden, is one of the largest bus manufacturers (Volvo Bus), trucks (Volvo Trucks) and Construction (Volvo Construction Equipment). Volvo also manufactures marine engines (Volvo Penta) and high-tech components for commercial aircraft and jet engines (Volvo Aero). Volvo Construction Equipment Construction produces more than 100 different models of compact wheel loaders, backhoe loaders, excavators and tracked. Interestingly, the undisputed “star” in the Volvo construction equipment, but the articulated joint in all versions of a 25 to 40.