Komatsu Forklift Australia is extremely proud of our Sydney technician Stephen Rimoldi who has been recognised as Best Overall, Forklift Certificate III in Automotive Specialist. This prestigious award was presented to Stephen at the South Western Sydney Institute of TAFE presentation event at Smithfield RSL Club on Thursday May 24th.

The Australian Industrial Truck Association (AITA) will be holding a Safety Week Seminar as part of the AITA National Forklift Safety Week.

The Seminar will be held on Tuesday 5 June 2012 and featyre speakers on a range of topics including:

• Standards
• Training
• Tyres and attachments
• Changes to OH&S requirements and the legal implications
• Traffic Management Issues and the use of forklift trucks

Registration is free, but participants wishing to attend are asked to contact the AITA Secretariat at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to register.

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After more than 40 years in Victoria and 10 years in Cherry Lane Komatsu Forklift Australia have moved their Victorian operational head quarters to 1/110 Fitzgerald Rd Laverton North.

Komatsu Forklift Australia is once again the proud National Sponsor of the Christmas Parties for Special Children initiative for the third year in a row.  Our support of this, one of the most important charity event series in the country, meant that the Parties were big enough to cater for over 15,000 children nationally in 2010 and again in 2011.

Tough Komatsu Forklifts for Bradken

Foundry work is tough work.  Many forklifts would fail under the stress and strain of this environment.  So why does Bradken, one of Australia’s largest foundries and mining businesses, chose Komatsu?

Komatsu (President & CEO: Kunio Noji) was selected as a component of the Dow Jones Sustainability World Indexes (DJSI) and awarded the bronze class this year. Following up on last year’s selection, we are honoured to receive the recognition by this world’s leading corporate social responsibility index developed jointly by Dow Jones of the United States and Sustainability Asset Management (SAM) Group, a research and rating company in Switzerland.

Honda and Komatsu have enjoyed a strong business relationship globally for many years. Building on that relationship Honda Australia has now contracted Komatsu Forklift Australia to supply forklifts throughout their Victorian operations.

Some lucky customers of Komatsu Forklift Australia were in for a real blast when we took them along to the sponsors drive day for Team Vodafone the Holden Driving Centre at Norwell Queensland.

One of the NT’s great annual events is the Fred’s Pass Show.  As a major supporter and sponsor of this event Komatsu Forklift Australia went all out to make this year’s event the best ever.  Our sponsorship of the ever popular wood chopping helped this year to be bigger and better than ever featuring an appearance of the world’s best in this sport, David Foster from Tasmania.

We at the Komatsu Group hereby extend our sincere condolences to the people who have been adversely affected by the earthquake and Tsunami which occurred on March 11, 2011 and to their relatives as well.