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Established in 1892 in Osaka, the company operates in Japan and other countries, especially Southeast Asia and Australia, as well as the United States and Europe. Major landmarks it has constructed in Japan include the Kyoto Station Building, the Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) Center in Tokyo, as well as the Tokyo Skytree.
This company produced the Komatsu D50A bulldozer, marking Komatsu's first offshore production of construction equipment. Komatsu Australia Pty., Ltd. in Australia was established in Feb. 1979. [5] In the 60's the company entered the small engine market partnering with Fuji Motors Corporation building hand held engines.
In 2009, Sekisui House expanded into Australia. [2] The company has origins in and is affiliated with Sekisui Chemical, which once was a major chemical firm, but has since diversified due to Asian competition; they supply medical diagnostic lab equipment and manufacture pharmaceuticals worldwide. The chemical firm has over 100 subsidiaries and ...
Chiyoda was established as part of Mitsubishi Oil in 1948, and was spun off from its parent and went public in 1957. [3]In the late 1960s it built the Jeddah and Riyadh refineries in Saudi Arabia; [4] at present its large projects include LNG plants in Qatar, the Sakhalin-II project in eastern Russia, and a variety of specialist-chemical and pharmaceutical plants in Japan itself.
A construction site in Kawasaki, Kanagawa. The construction industry of Japan is a large component of the Japanese economy in terms of economic output and employment. Its history is one that mirrors closely the overall economic path of the country, from establishment of the capital during the feudal era, through economic modernization and imperial rule, and until today with the recovery and ...
Kumagai founded his own company in 1898 and incorporated it in 1938. Between 1955 and 1983 the company accounted for more than 10% of all contracts awarded to the fifty-seven members of the Overseas Construction Association of Japan, a figure that outranked the ‘Big Five’ domestic giant construction companies. [4]
Taisei Corporation (大成建設株式会社, Taisei Kensetsu kabushiki gaisha, formerly known in English as the Taisei Construction Company, Ltd.) is a Japanese corporation founded in 1873. Its main areas of business are building construction , civil engineering , and real estate development .
Hazama Ando Corporation (株式会社安藤・間, Kabushiki-gaisha Andō Hazama, also called 安藤ハザマ), is one of the 10 biggest construction companies in Japan. It was launched in 2013 by the merger of the Hazama Corporation and Ando Corporation. [3]