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Komatsu Limited (formally 株式会社小松製作所, commonly コマツ) (TYO: 6301) is a Japanese company on the Nikkei 225 index that manufactures construction and mining equipment, silicon wafers, lasers, and thermoelectric modules. The main trading room of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, where nowadays the trading is done by computers The Stock Exchange occupies a narrow site in Tokyos securities district The Tokyo Stock Exchange (abbreviated TSE) is a stock exchange market located in Tokyo, Japan. ... Jump to: navigation, search Nikkei 225 (æ—¥çµŒå¹³å‡æ ªä¾¡, æ—¥çµŒ225) is a stock market index for the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). ... Cranes are essential in large construction projects, such as this skyscraper Construction on the North Bytown Bridge in Ottawa, Canada. ... The El Chino Mine located near Silver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually (but not always) from an ore body, vein, or (coal) seam. ... General Name, Symbol, Number silicon, Si, 14 Chemical series metalloids Group, Period, Block 14, 3, p Appearance dark gray, bluish tinge Atomic mass 28. ...

Its headquarters is at 3-3-6, Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan Minato (港区; -ku) is a special ward located in Tokyo, Japan. ... Long a symbol of Tokyo, the Nijubashi Bridge at the Kokyo Imperial Palace. ...

Its name was taken after the current city of Komatsu, Ishikawa at foundation in 1917 there. Its main plants are located in the city. Komatsu (å°æ¾å¸‚; -shi) is a city located in Ishikawa in the Hokuriku district of Japan. ... 1917 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ...

Komatsu makes the largest bulldozer in the world, D575. The Komatsu D575 Superdozer is the largest bulldozer ever built. ...

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	Komatsu agreed to this deal in exchange for a package of revitalization grants and tax advantages from the British government.
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	Komatsu UKs financial performance exceeded predictions and the employee turnover rate among the native British workers was much lower than the average experienced by other, British-managed workforces in the Newcastle region.

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