Komatsu Heavy Machinery Sales Rise 101 Pct

  (Antara/ Andika Wahyu) VIVAnews - PT United Tractors Tbk (UNTR) recorded sales volume of Komatsu’s heavy machinery at 1,685 units from the beginning of the year to April 2010.  Meanwhile, the market share of heavy machinery in Indonesia has reached 46 percent.

According to the company’s operational report up until April 2010 obtained by VIVAnews in Jakarta on Friday, May 21, during the period, the biggest volume of heavy machinery sales was in the mining sector, which was up to 975 units.

Other sectors like agribusiness, construction and forestry sold 371,190 and 149 units respectively.

However, the volume of heavy machinery sales in April, which has reached 467 units, has dropped from 485 units in March 2010. The sales volume during the months was the highest during the past year.

As for the coal sales volume during April 2010, the company has accounted 195 thousand tons of sold coals. The number was also lower than in March 2010 of 261 thousand tons.

Until the first four months of 2010, the volume of coal sales was up to 939 thousand tons or higher than in the same period last year of 864 thousand tons.

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Honghe Steel ink agreement with Wuhan Heavy Machinery

Kunming Daily reported that recently, Kunming Steel Honghe Company has inked cooperation contract with Wuhan Heavy Machinery to provide 0.6 million tonnes per year section steel for the latter, indicating that Honghe Steel would start the project soon.

The 0.6 million tonnes per year section steel project, one of the major projects for Honghe Steel Company may further perfect the steel products mix for Kunming Steel. Now, Honghe Steel is getting down preparing for the prophase works, trying to start the formal construction earlier.
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