Top Brands in Heavy Construction Equipment: Who Leads the Market?

Heavy construction equipment helps build huge machines and big projects. Its job is to hollow ground, move materials, and carry heavy weights. Moreover, heavy construction equipment does tasks that are impossible for a human being to finish manually. Thus, these machines and equipment make humans' work easy and time-saving.

Main Kinds of Heavy Construction Equipment

Crawlers:

If you ever visit any construction site, you will likely encounter a crawler. These machines are strong and versatile and used to lift heavy objects. 

Bulldozers:

A bulldozer is used to push, dig, even, and grades materials such as soils, debris, and other loose particles.

Cranes:

The duty of a crane is to lift heavy substances/objects and to transfer them to another place.

Loaders:

Loaders transport materials such as soil, sand, and rocks.

Trash Trucks:

As it is mentioned in its name, TRASH trucks are used to collect and carry crap such as dirt, dust, and trash from the construction site.

Concrete Mixers

A concrete mixer's duty is to amalgamate dry materials such as cement and sand Then what it does is, it mixes water to create wet cement for the construction of various buildings and projects.

Top 7 Brands in Heavy Construction Equipment

Caterpillar (US)

First, let us discuss Caterpillar Inc. Well, in 2023, Caterpillar Inc. was the number 1 brand in heavyweight equipment. However, it’s share was 16.8% at that time. It has sales and revenues of $64.8 billion. It internationally deals in manufacturing and mining equipment. Their priority is to serve people with rational lives and to provide them with a reduced-carbon world.

Caterpillar's business is spread on every corner of the world and functions through 3 major categories: construction industries, resources industries, and Energy transportation. Also, it helps others with financial and related services through its financial products category. However, their primary equipment is heavy machinery. However, their main manufacturing items are lift trucks, anchors, solar turbines, and SPM oil and gas.

Komatsu (Japan)

The ambition of the Komatsu group is to focus on manufacturing and selling construction machinery and related services such as mining, and forestry. Komatsu works by first knowing its customers' needs and satisfying them to the utmost. They keep improving their products to achieve high standards. All the Komatsu workers do their best to meet their customers' expectations. Moreover, Komatsu has a market share of 10.4%.

Volvo Group (Sweden)

Volvo Group's brands include different ones. These brands focus on distinct customers, such as product segments, stakeholders, and markets. Every brand plays a vital role in supporting Volvo Group's vision of being internationally the most wanted and accomplished transport and infrastructure seller.

Liebherr AG (Germany)

Liberherr AG (Germany) was introduced in 1949 by Hans Liebherr, which is why all the Liebherr firms are mainly located in Southern Germany. A total of 16 firms produces top-notch goods that are traded internationally. They produce goods such as refrigerators, earthmoving machines, tower cranes, mobile crawler cranes, material-carrying machines, etc.

SANY Heavy Industry (China)

Sany Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. It was launched in 1994. To build this brand, they took financial help from Sany Group. Sany Heavy Industry Co., Ltd is a successful brand that has won quick evolution. Sany is one of the top brands in the equipment-producing industry internationally. Their main products are concrete machinery, earthmover, crane road machinery, and fire-fighting equipment.

Terex Corporation (US)

Terex Corporation deals in equipment for lifting infrastructure items during construction sites. Terex Corporation is a famous brand that currently deals in heavy equipment. However, it also provides mining, power (energy), recycling, and utilities. They have won people's trust with exceptional services and are responsible for transforming this world's physical appearance.

This brand was launched in 1933. Its headquarters is in Norwalk, Connecticut, USA. As a record of the year "2024", 9,000 workers used to work in it in this year.

Hitachi Construction Machinery (Japan)-HCM:

Hitachi Construction Machinery is a top brand in producing mining equipment and construction. Its headquarters are in Tokyo, Japan. However, this brand was launched in 1970. Last year in 2024, it had 25,000 workers. Hitachi Construction Machinery has spread its business to around 30 countries, including sales, factories, and support networks. Besides, the equipment and services of Hitachi Co., Ltd are known for their longevity, evolution, and accuracy, especially in trash trucks and mining solutions.

Hitachi Construction provides construction equipment such as crawler cranes, strong trash trucks, forestry and destruction equipment, and hydraulic crawlers. Their hydraulic crawlers are famous for their efficiency and technology integration.

Hitachi Construction Machinery has manufacturing plants in Japan, Indonesia, China, the Netherlands, India, and America.

In addition, Hitachi deals in places like Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and South Africa via an amalgamation of direct sales and dealer networks.

Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd is not just a manufacturing firm of earthmoving equipment but also a brand that deals in smart, sustainable construction and mining solutions. By merging the talent of Japanese engineers with modern thinking, Hitachi Construction Machinery keeps surprising the world by giving it a beautiful face.

HD Hyundai (South Korea)

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries was launched in 1972 by Chung-Ju-Yung. It has changed the face of South Korea and transformed it into a masterpiece in the shipbuilding industry. It is one of the most phenomenal shipbuilding brands in the world.

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries' current ambition is bringing the future towards humanity by accelerating evolution and ceasing our limits. Moreover, it has a 50-year experience in excellent shipbuilding. However, it also deals in engines and machinery to best serve its customers.

Conclusion

In this blog, we have highlighted the top 7 brands leading the market. In other words, there is not only one brand that would be considered the one and only brand in this regard. You can try one if you are looking for reliable service or equipment. Why? Because all of them specialize in their own way. But once you buy their products or hire their services, it's guaranteed that they will help you build your dream project.