| orld’s biggest maker of construction | | | | Another renowned company engaged in |
| equipments is the Caterpillar Inc. It is based in Illinois. | | | | manufacturing construction machineries is the Liebherr |
| The company deals with diverse product ranges. | | | | AG. Their range of products includes Mining |
| Benjamin Holt is the inventor of the crawler machines. | | | | equipment, Wheel loaders, Bulldozers, and excavators. |
| The list includes Engines, road building machineries and | | | | Inn the year 2004 the company manufactured the |
| equipments for moving earth soil. They deal with | | | | world’s biggest dump truck. Apart from the |
| excavators of almost all possible types. This includes | | | | construction equipments the company is also |
| dozers, graders, scrapers, crawler loaders, and wheel | | | | engaged in making household apparatus and space |
| loaders. | | | | equipments. The Tower Crane happens to be the |
| The world’s second largest building equipment | | | | first product which made its debut in the year 1949. |
| maker is the Komatsu Ltd. It has a wide variety of | | | | The wheel loader manufactured by this company has |
| product range and is only behind the Caterpillar. The | | | | proved to be very cost effective inn terms of |
| Japanese company is engaged in selling almost | | | | consumption of the fuel. |
| hundred various types of building machineries. These | | | | Another renowned South Korean Company that |
| include mobile crushers, telehandler and mini | | | | makes boating equipments as well as construction |
| excavator. The company has gained a lot of | | | | machineries is the Hyundai Heavy Industries Ltd. Their |
| reputation for the manufacturing of the mini | | | | product range includes crawler and wheel excavator, |
| excavators. The Komatsu, which has its headquarters | | | | skid steer loader, wheel loader, and Skid steer |
| in Tokyo, also deals with products other than the | | | | excavators. The construction equipments |
| construction equipments. They have become a lot | | | | manufactured by Hyundai are distributed all across |
| popular in manufacturing robots, compressors, | | | | the world. |
| generators and electronic goods. The company | | | | The Swedish group Volvo apart from manufacturing |
| manufactures the biggest and the heaviest bulldozer | | | | the Volvo buses is also renowned for its construction |
| in the world. | | | | equipments. The Volvo Group also manufactures |
| Another Japanese company has made it to the top | | | | boat engines. The construction equipments include |
| fifty of the leading enterprises in the world. Hitachi | | | | chain excavator, mobile excavator, excavator loader, |
| Ltd. Corporation manufactures different types of | | | | and compact wheeled loader. |
| building equipments. However, they manufacture it | | | | The mini excavators have become very popular |
| with the name of Hitachi Construction Machinery. | | | | especially in the urban areas. The demand is justified |
| They manufacture wheeled excavators and crawlers | | | | as these machines are lot lighter in weight and carry |
| of various sizes. Apart from these they are also | | | | out almost the operation that a big excavator is |
| engaged in the making of wheel loaders, and | | | | supposed to do. In addition they can perform some |
| telescopic working platforms. | | | | tasks that even the big excavators are unable to |
| JCB is considered as the world’s fourth | | | | perform. They accommodate themselves very easily |
| largest maker of construction equipments in the | | | | within a truck. For the purpose of back filling they |
| world. Among it is the wheel excavator, crawler | | | | have provisions for dozer blade which is in built. Their |
| excavators and the tele handler. Other than this JCB | | | | flexibility and the ability to adjust have made them |
| is engaged in the agricultural field by producing | | | | indispensable. |
| tractors. | | | | |