Komatsu's sales rise 36% in 2005

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