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Ubaristi en KubotaKubota Ubaristi
Directors of the company visit the Japanese manufacturer of mini excavators.
From left to right, seated: Pedro Urquiza, mod. national sales of Ubaristi, Juan Bta. Ubarrechena, mod. General Ubaristi, Sunichi Miyake, mod. Kubota to OP, Manuel Ubarrechena, mod. commercial Ubaristi, Carolina Duran, responsible for coordination of sales of Ubaristi. Stand: Iñigo García de Cortázar, mod. SAT Ubaristi, Valérie Dauzats, responsible for sales of Kubota Europe for Spain, Julien Leroy, of the Department. SAT of Kubota and Ainhoa Maiztegui, responsible for communication and marketing of Ubaristi.
Kubota, world's leading manufacturer of mini excavators, invited executives Ubaristi, representative of the brand in Spain company, to show how to create one of its most representative machines.
But Kubota is much more than mini excavators. The company also manufactures engines, articulated skid steer loaders and generators, and works both for the agriculture sector of the electronic equipment. It also manufactures vending machines and performs piping steel, ductile iron, valves, pumps, etc.
Founded in 1890, Kubota currently has a staff of more than 22,000 people, and in 2005 won a turnover greater than the 983,000 million yen.
The first minidigger, the KH-1, is on display at the plant in Hirakata, the place which saw her birth in 1974.
After more than 30 years dedicated to the development and manufacture of the mini excavators, his projection goes ahead. Currently, Kubota in Hirakata factory up to 15,000 mini excavators a year, with a forecast of reaching, as of 2007, the figure of 20,000 units a year.
To date, the company has three factories of mini excavators. The largest is located in the silver from Hirakata (Japan), with 306.000 m2 of surface, where 2-8 t machines, are manufactured while those of less than 2 t are manufactured in silver from Sakai (Japan), 200,000 m2. And due to the strong demand for mini excavators in Europe, the company opened a third plant in Zweibrücken (Germany).
Hirakata (Japan) production plant.
As for the figures, the total number of mini excavators manufacturer Kubota in Japan, 30 per cent is for the domestic market and 70% remaining for the exportation, data that shows the importance and acceptance that have these machines at the international level. Kubota has an infrastructure that ensures the quality of its production, with a large team that seeks new solutions to improve every day the manufacturing process and which investigates new equipment that requires the end user. Proof of its concern for quality are different certificates and awards he has won over the years. These include different ISO as the ISO 9001 for the Division of machinery for the construction, and subsequently the ISO 14001. Also, and in anticipation of future gas emissions laws, Kubota complies already scheduled for adoption in 2012.
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