KUBOTA this year is celebrating its 40th year of excavator production, a history that began in Hirakata, Japan, in 1974 with the Kubota KH-1 mini excavator.
Just as music group ABBA cleaned up in Eurovision ‘74 with Waterloo, Kubota started cleaning up construction sites with this first version, laying the foundations for a long history of providing rugged, reliable construction equipment.
While it took five years for the first Kubota excavator to arrive into Australia, the KH-1D in 1979, it wasn’t long before Kubota become a market leader in Australia.
The current KX series of conventional tail swing excavators was launched in 1991, a range that has been updated and improved for over 20 years with the newest member, the KX018-4, manufactured in a state of the art Kubota facility in Zweibruecken, Germany.
The zero tail swing U series followed in 2002 in response to a shift towards excavator usage in tighter areas, and has now sits proudly alongside the current day KX series.
While Kubota has manufactured excavators in its Hirakata (Japan) plant since 1974, current product is now also manufactured in facilities located Hirakata, Japan, and Zweibruecken, Germany.
While product is manufactured in overseas factories, extensive testing and refinements are applied to product destined for the Australian marketplace to ensure it stands up to the harsh Australian environment.
