[VIDEO] Komatsu Celebrates 100th Anniv.

April 12, 2021

Komatsu Ltd. will celebrate its 100th anniversary on May 13, 2021. Established in Komatsu City, Ishikawa Prefecture, Komatsu has committed to quality and reliability and worked to maximize the trust of customers, shareholders, distributors, suppliers, business partners, and all other stakeholders to date. 

Looking into the next 100 years, Komatsu will continue to move forward with its stakeholders as it creates value through manufacturing and technology innovation to empower a sustainable future where people, businesses and our planet thrive together.

1.Corporate identity

Komatsu has defined its corporate identity by reflecting on its corporate growth built by forerunners and its relations with society. Specifically, Komatsu has articulated its mission and vision as its purpose, together with its values. 

2.Launching the “One World One Komatsu” employee-driven social contribution project

Komatsu defines CSR as activities to respond to social demands through core business, and works for sustainable growth with society by solving ESG issues. Komatsu is launching the “One World One Komatsu”, Komatsu’s first global platform which all Komatsu group employees around the world can join. This exclusive platform can consolidate the voluntary and simple efforts of each participant under the theme of environmental sustainability into group-wide sharing.

3.Showing the “Komatsu in 203X” 100th anniversary commemorative movie

For the goal of achieving safe, highly productive, smart and clean workplaces of the future, this movie portrays future workplaces as Komatsu wants them to look like in 10 to 20 years by focusing on five workplaces: mining, construction, forestry and agriculture, industrial machinery, and Komatsu’s production. 

4.Renewal of Komatsu-no-mori

Komatsu is going to renew Komatsu-no-mori in Komatsu City, Ishikawa Prefecture. Komatsu opened Komatsu-no-mori in 2011 as part of its 90th anniversary commemorative project. It is a place to develop human resources on a global scale and as a place to nurture children together with the local communities.