CHATTANOOGA, TN — Komatsu America appoints Tractor & Equipment Company (TEC) as the forestry equipment distributor for the states of Alabama, Georgia and the northwest region of Florida. TEC will handle the full line of Komatsu forestry equipment, which includes track feller bunchers, log loaders, wheeled harvesters, forwarders and harvesting/processing heads. TEC is already the distributor in these regions for Komatsu construction and mining equipment.

“Tractor & Equipment Company is an excellent addition to the Komatsu forestry equipment team and will provide us with greater forestry sales coverage in the southeast United States,” said Jim Williams, Director of Sales and Service, Forestry at Komatsu. “They have done a great job representing and growing Komatsu’s construction and mining business in this region, and we feel confident that they can replicate that success for forestry.”

Tractor & Equipment Company was founded in 1943. Based in Birmingham, Alabama, TEC has operations throughout Alabama, Georgia and northwest Florida. Forestry equipment will be sold and serviced at all of the company’s 20 branch locations.

“We are pleased to be building on our long-term relationship with Komatsu with the addition of their forestry line of equipment,” said Dan Stracener, President/CEO of Tractor & Equipment Company. “It gives us the opportunity to offer greater value to our forestry customers and to do so with a trusted partner.”