Komatsu and International were joint partners making Houghs in Japan for the Asian market. International got in financial trouble in the late eighties and sold the construction line out to Dresser. Dresser formed a joint partnership with Komatsu in the US shortly thereafter which lasted about a year when Komatsu purchased the whole enterprise. The manufacturing of the Dresser line, dozers I think, was moved to Poland while some of the old Dresser line was merged into the Komatsu line, many wheel loader designs.
At any rate the story I got was that the people in Poland thought they could do a better job of marketing than Komatsu and somehow managed to get the right to put their product line in the US with their own network.
I don't hear much of them in this territory anymore. I do end up looking at a few old International and Dresser dozers now and then.