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The demise of P & H is at hand, Komatsu is to buy Joy Global. They intend to operate it as a stand alone subsidiary and will retain all the trade marks. Heard Cat say that with BE.
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Looks like it will just be the clash of the two titans then... Very interesting developments in the mining sector over the past few years.
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Massive news !
Intersting that Komatsu America Corp is buying, not Komatsu Japan.
Hopefully they keep the legendary P&H and Letourneau brand names as long as possible.
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Komatsu Japan owns Komatsu America. P & H and Le Tourneau will be gone by 2017 when the company is integrated into Komatsu, the same way Demag was. When I look at Komatsu hydraulic shovels, I see basically a Demag. I suppose I will feel the same way about P & H shovels, another icon gone down the pan.
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LeTourneau is gone already, the last lot of wheel loaders we delivered where badged as P&H
Very surprised to hear the news but, after looking at their product lines with very minimal product overlap it's surprising it hasn't happened sooner
I have been hearing rumors about a WA1600 & WA1800 for awhile but the issue was the availability of large enough tyres (as LeTourneau own the tyre specs for the 1850 & 2350 apparently?)
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