TOKYO -- With new infrastructure investments and soaring commodities prices driving demand for heavy machinery, Komatsu's particular focus on the Southeast Asian market is helping propel the company's earnings to pre-pandemic levels.
"Relatively profitable strategic markets, like Southeast Asia, are driving profits up," Chief Financial Officer Takeshi Horikoshi told reporters Monday. The Japanese company that day announced that its net profit more than doubled on the year to 155.5 billion yen ($1.35 billion) in the April-December period, topping its full-year result from fiscal 2019, before the global spread of COVID-19. Total revenue climbed 33% to 2.01 trillion yen.
