Komatsu celebrates 100th Anniversary with commemorative activities
Komatsu is set to celebrate their 100th anniversary on May 13, 2001. Established in Komatsu City, Ishikawa Prefecture, Komatsu has committed to quality and reliability and worked to maximize the trust of customers, shareholders, distributors, suppliers, and their business partners.
Komatsu has dedicated their 100th anniversary to be a communication opportunity, to enhance and disseminate its corporate brand and express appreciation to all stakeholders for their support over the years, Komatsu is going to implement commemorative activities and make efforts for sustainable growth into the future.
Looking into the next 100 years, Komatsu will continue to move forward as it creates value through manufacturing and technology innovation to empower a sustainable future where people, businesses and our planet thrive together.
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. The corporate identity also incorporates pieces that have been created over the company’s history: founding principles, the Komatsu Way, Komatsu Worldwide Code of Business Conduct as well as strategies including the mid-term management plan. Furthermore, Komatsu has created the brand promise of “Creating value together”. As their business and stakeholders diversify further, they have committed to strive to deliver this promise throughout their global operations.
Purpose
Creating value through manufacturing and technology innovation to empower sustainable future where people, business and our planet thrive together.
Values
- Ambition: “With a ‘challenging spirit’ and without fear of failure, we innovate and always inspire.”
- Perseverance: “Even when the work is difficult, we remain committed to our promises and reliably carry them through to completion.”
- Collaboration: “Creating value comes from teamwork, inclusion, respect, diversity and a win-win approach to all relationships.”
- Authenticity: “To earn and maintain trust, we always act with sincerity, integrity and honesty, and communicate transparently.”
Brand promise
Launching the “One World One Komatsu” employee-driven social contribution project
Komatsu defines their Corporate Social Responsibility as activities to respond to social demands through their core business, and works for sustainable growth with society by solving Environment, Social and Governance issues.
Komatsu is launching “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.
It allows for easy logins from PCs and smart phones and transcends national and linguistic barriers to connect all Komatsu group employees worldwide, nurturing a sense of unity for the Komatsu group as they work for the common goal, and promoting activities designed for a sustainable earth.
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 shown above, 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.
By digitalizing workplaces worldwide and connecting land features, man, machinery, and materials on an open platform, Komatsu aims to solve on-site problems and optimize on-site operations, improve a variety of machine utilization rates, and secure a carbon neutral environment.
Renewal of Komatsu-no-mori
Komatsu is going to renew Komatsu-no-mori in Komatsu City, Ishikawa Prefecture, with an opening date planned for May 14 2021.
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.
As part of the renewal project aiming at sustainable contributions for local communities, Komatsu has taken new initiatives to open the Waku-Waku History Pavilion designed to encourage visitors to look back on Komatsu’s history, and they will display a PC4000 super-large hydraulic excavator next to the 930E, a dump truck of the world’s largest class, which has been there since 2011.
Komatsu hopes that Komatsu-no-mori will continue to offer active opportunities to local communities by attracting many visitors, helping them become interested in manufacturing and nature, and learn about its technologies.
For more information concerning the commemorative activities above and other events, Komatsu will keep them updated on its 100th anniversary website.
