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Joy Global

American company that manufactures and services heavy machinery used in underground and surface mining
Organization business Q3187203
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Summary

Joy Global is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (407 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[3], US[4]
  • Instance of: enterprise[5]
  • Founder: Joseph Francis Joy[6]
  • Headquarters location: Milwaukee[7]
  • Industry: mining industry[8], heavy machine building[9]
  • Inception: 1884[10], 1986-09-17[11]
  • Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: April 5, 2017[12]
  • Official website: https://mining.komatsu/[13]
  • Product or material produced: mining equipment[14]
  • Official name: Komatsu Mining Corp.[15], Joy Global Inc.[16]
  • Legal form: open joint-stock company[17], XTIQ[18]

Why It Matters

Joy Global has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

business United States

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . jsonline.com. jsonline.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . jsonline.com. jsonline.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → —
    Country → United States, US
    Country → —
    Logo image → Komatsu company logos.svg
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    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14750: C3A8-6C88-4C15-62D9-A0CE, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269256|batch #269256]]"
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