| Kubota Corporation manufactures machinery, and other industrial and consumer products. It offers tractors, combine harvesters, rice transplanters, power tillers, and reaper binders for agricultural use. The company also offers pipes and valves, such as ductile iron pipes, spiral welded steel pipes, plastic pipes and fittings, and filament and winding pipes, as well as industrial castings, such as iron and steel castings. It offers these products to municipalities and public utilities for use in water supply and sewage systems along with industrial water supply, as well as for use in gas supply, telecommunication, and irrigation systems. In addition, Kubota offers environmental control plants, pumps, and engineering products to municipalities for use in waterworks, sewage facilities, irrigation system, rainwater drainage, and power supplies. Further, the company offers cement-based roofing materials and siding materials, as well as other building materials, including septic tanks. Its building material products are used in private residential construction, as well as in commercial, industrial, and other buildings. Also, Kubota's other products include vending machines, weighing and measuring control systems, electronic components and air conditioning equipment, and pipe laying and related construction. The company sells its products directly, as well as through wholesale-retail dealers, wholesalers, trading companies, local distributors, agricultural cooperative associations, and Kubotas subsidiaries and affiliates, in North America, Europe, and Asia. Kubota was founded by Gonshiro Kubota in 1890 and has its head office in Osaka, Japan. |