Komatsu's sales rise 36% in 2005

JAKARTA: Publicly listed PT Komatsu Indonesia, a heavy- equipment unit of domestic automotive leader PT Astra International, announced that sales of its heavy equipments rose by 36.1 percent in the first six months this year against the same period of last year.

In a press statement issued on Wednesday, the company said it had sold 434 units of heavy equipment in the first half of this year -- comprising 142 bulldozers, 251 hydraulic excavators and 41 other heavy vehicles.

In the first semester of last year, it only sold 88 bulldozers, 213 excavators and 18 other vehicles.

With the sales, the company has reaped Rp 618.2 billion (US$63.31 million) in revenues, up by 88.3 percent from Rp 328.3 billion in the corresponding period of last year. -- JP