Engineering and construction firm that does business in Iran through its partner Kitro Pars. Participated in the 2012 Iran Oil Show.
Pepperl+Fuchs is featured on the website of the Iranian firm, DIBAGARAN FARAYAND (DIFACO).
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Does business in Iran through its Iranian representatives ADICO, Aria Equip International Co., Arian BC, and Omid Electric Co. Participated in the 2012 Iran Oil Show.
Helmke is the parent company of Spain-based Helmke Orbis, a engineering firm that participated in the 2012 Iran Oil Show.
On its website, Homa Pumpen lists an agency in Tehran called Behsan Parsian Sanat Co. (Homa Pumpen Website, "Agencies Worldwide")
In November 2017, Iran discussed bilateral cooperation in the field of air industries with Antonov company CEO. Iran and Antonov company have been cooperating in the production and operation of aircrafts for two decades.
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"The Persian Gulf country will buy two Ukrainian-made Antonov-158s, after a test flight of the aircraft earlier this month, Mohammad-Ali Sirati, managing director of the Iranian aircraft company, was cited as saying by the official Islamic Republic News Agency. The countries then will start to jointly build the aircraft next year, Sirati, whose company will be in charge of the project, said in Tehran yesterday. Some 30 percent of each plane will be made in Iran, state-run media reported." (Business Week, "Iran Says Antonov-158 Built With Ukraine May Fly in 2013," 10/6/2011)
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Antonov lists on its website that their AN-24 turboprop aircraft is serially produced at HESA plant in Isfahan, Iran. (Antonov website)
The Iranian company HEPCO lists Komatsu products under license on its company website. (HEPCO Website, “Under License.”)
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We note, too, the “komatsu iran” YouTube channel, which appears to be affiliated with Iran’s Heavy Equipment Production Company (“HEPCO”).
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Iran Komatsu has its own website.
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Komatsu is listed as a participating company at the 14th International Exhibition of Transportation & Urban Services & Related Industries which takes place October 27-30th, 2016 in Tehran Iran. (Participating International Companies)
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Komatsu Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a global heavy industry manufacturer that produces and sells construction equipment, mining equipment, and industrial machinery. Komatsu is the second largest manufacturer of construction equipment in the world, behind Caterpillar. Komatsu has a U.S. affiliate, Komatsu American Corp.
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Iran-based Mehvar Machine Co., one of Komatsu's authorized distributors, participated in Iran's 14th international oil show in 2009 (Iran's 14th Oil Show, Exhibitors List). Mehvar Machine Co. sells Komatsu machinery and spare parts, and offers customer training, service, and repairs (Mehvar Machine Co. Website). According to this website, Komatsu products that Mehvar sells include hydraulic excavators, wheel loaders, motor graders, crawler dozers, bulldozers, dump trucks, lift trucks, containers, and Komatsu accessories.
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Komatsu's other authorized distributor in Iran, Behrad Tehran, mentions the use of its products in sensitive sectors, proclaiming on its website that "Our Process division offers engineering machinery and turn-key projects in almost all fields of industry, mainly oil & gas, petrochemical, polymer & plastics, chemical, pharmaceutical, food & beverages, pulp & paper, cement, and industries related to processing" (Behrad Tehran Website).
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Komatu's Middle East subsidiary, Komatsu Middle East FZE, has an office in Tehran (Komatsu Company Info).
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In 2004, Komatsu made an agreement with Hepcoy, an Iranian industrial and mining company, to have Komatsu bulldozers produced in Iran. According to Japanese Ambassador to Tehran Takekezu Kawamura, Japanese companies had "invested more than $2 billion in Iranian oil and gas sectors" by 2004 ("Komatsu Bulldozers to be Produced in Iran").
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The machinery that Komatsu makes available to Iran has a wide application in the oil and mining industries, both of which are key to the Iranian economy ("Iran's Economy," The Iranian Trade Association Inc, 2010).
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In the past decade, Komatsu has received $39.39 million dollars in U.S. federal contracts, 90 percent of which came from the Defense Department (USAspending.gov).
Soilmec is a large Italy-based international construction company that specializes in below-ground construction. It operates 12 subsidiary companies and has 45 distributors (Company Website).
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Soilmec has a full branch in Tehran which handles "sales, customer care, technological assistance, spare parts, and maintenance."
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Soilmec lists on its website Iranian drilling company Tahran Co. as a major client for drilling and foundation equipment.
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Soilmec manufactures a wide range of tunneling equipment. The New York Times has reported that Iran is using an underground tunnel network to hide missiles and nuclear facilities.
Hitachi Zosen is a Japanese manufacturing and engineering corporation with product divisions including environmental systems and industrial plants, precision machinery, machinery and process equipment, steel structures and construction machinery, marine and disaster prevention systems. (Company website)
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Hitachi Zosen produces shield tunneling machines in its steel structures and construction machinery division: "We have delivered a number of shield tunneling machines to the United States, China, Korea, Republic of China, Singapore and Thailand including 4 machines for undersea tunnel across the Bosporus straits in Istanbul, Turkey" (Company website).
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A Hitachi Zosen subsidiary lists Iran as a main exporting country for spare parts. (Hitachi-Zosen Plant Techno-Service Corp)
Operates as a subsidiary of Northern Heavy Industries Group Co. Ltd.
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“NFM Technologies SA, a mechanical engineering company, designs, develops, manufactures, and supplies mechanical equipment and systems.”
“The company’s products are used in various applications in defense/aeronautics, nuclear, oil/gas, underground work, heavy industry, and major structures markets in the United States and internationally."
“It operates manufacturing plants in Shenyang and Guangzhou, China; and Le Creusot, Bagnols-sur-Cèze, and Lyon, France. As of May 28, 2007, NFM Technologies SA is a subsidiary of Shenyang Heavy Machinery Group Co., Ltd." (Bloomberg Business Week, “NFM Technologies SA – Private Company Information,” 2010).
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“Ranked amongst the most important tunnel-boring machine manufacturers on the world market, NFM Technologies provides its customers with tunneling machines of 4 to more than 15 metres in diameter, suited to all types of geology, acknowledged for their reliability and robustness” (Company website).
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“In September 2007 state-corporation NHI, Northern Heavy Industry Group, purchased a 70% share of French TBM and nuclear equipment manufacturer NFM. Niko Kleuters, previously with NFM's prior owner, WIRTH of Germany, left WIRTH to retain the remaining 30% share in NFM” (TunnelTalk, “China adds CIFA to its European acquisitions,” September 2008).
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NFM’s website features a technologies representative in Iran. (Company website)
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An article on Iranian tunneling projects lists NFM’s involvement in the Shiraz and Tabriz subway projects, not completed as of 2009 (World Tunneling, “Iranian TBMs continue steady march,” December 23, 2009).
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NFM project in Iran, Shiraz Metro Project (Iran Project website)
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Kumagai Gumi Co., Ltd is a Japanese construction company involved in infrastructure and tunnel construction. (Company website)
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Kumagai machines were involved in the completed Koohrang and Cheshmeh Langan tunneling projects. (World Tunneling, “Iranian TBMs continue steady march," December 23, 2009)
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Kumagai has a history in Iran. Kumagai incorporated an Iranian subsidiary in the 1977, and around that time was contracted to build a water supply tunnel in Isfahan, Iran. (KUMAGAI GUMI COMPANY, LTD. Company History)
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