Submitted by: Avi Eshkol

The world s biggest maker of construction equipments is the Caterpillar Inc. It is based in Illinois. The company deals with diverse product ranges. Benjamin Holt is the inventor of the crawler machines. The list includes Engines, road building machineries and equipments for moving earth soil. They deal with excavators of almost all possible types. This includes dozers, graders, scrapers, crawler loaders, and wheel loaders.

The world s second largest building equipment maker is the Komatsu Ltd. It has a wide variety of product range and is only behind the Caterpillar. The Japanese company is engaged in selling almost hundred various types of building machineries. These include mobile crushers, telehandler and mini excavator. The company has gained a lot of reputation for the manufacturing of the mini excavators. The Komatsu, which has its headquarters in Tokyo, also deals with products other than the construction equipments. They have become a lot popular in manufacturing robots, compressors, generators and electronic goods. The company manufactures the biggest and the heaviest bulldozer in the world.

Another Japanese company has made it to the top fifty of the leading enterprises in the world. Hitachi Ltd. Corporation manufactures different types of building equipments. However, they manufacture it with the name of Hitachi Construction Machinery. They manufacture wheeled excavators and crawlers of various sizes. Apart from these they are also engaged in the making of wheel loaders, and telescopic working platforms.

JCB is considered as the world s fourth largest maker of construction equipments in the world. Among it is the wheel excavator, crawler excavators and the tele handler. Other than this JCB is engaged in the agricultural field by producing tractors.

Another renowned company engaged in manufacturing construction machineries is the Liebherr AG. Their range of products includes Mining equipment, Wheel loaders, Bulldozers, and excavators. Inn the year 2004 the company manufactured the world s biggest dump truck. Apart from the construction equipments the company is also engaged in making household apparatus and space equipments. The Tower Crane happens to be the first product which made its debut in the year 1949. The wheel loader manufactured by this company has proved to be very cost effective inn terms of consumption of the fuel.

Another renowned South Korean Company that makes boating equipments as well as construction machineries is the Hyundai Heavy Industries Ltd. Their product range includes crawler and wheel excavator, skid steer loader, wheel loader, and Skid steer excavators. The construction equipments manufactured by Hyundai are distributed all across the world.

The Swedish group Volvo apart from manufacturing the Volvo buses is also renowned for its construction equipments. The Volvo Group also manufactures boat engines. The construction equipments include chain excavator, mobile excavator, excavator loader, and compact wheeled loader.

The mini excavators have become very popular especially in the urban areas. The demand is justified as these machines are lot lighter in weight and carry out almost the operation that a big excavator is supposed to do. In addition they can perform some tasks that even the big excavators are unable to perform. They accommodate themselves very easily within a truck. For the purpose of back filling they have provisions for dozer blade which is in built. Their flexibility and the ability to adjust have made them indispensable.

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