Kubota

{{Short description|Japanese multinational corporation based in Osaka}}

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{{Infobox company

| name = Kubota Corporation

| type = Public

| traded_as = {{TYO|6326}}
TOPIX 100 Component
Nikkei 225 Component

| image = Headquater of Kubota.JPG

| image_size = 250px

| image_caption = Kubota headquarters in Naniwa-ku, Osaka, Japan

| logo = Kubota Logo.svg

| logo_size = 200px

| founder = Gonshiro Kubota

| foundation = {{start date and age|1890|02}}, in Osaka, Empire of Japan

| location = 2-47, Shikitsuhigashi 1-chome, Naniwa-ku, Osaka 556-8601 Japan

| key_people = Yuichi Kitao{{cite web | url=https://www.kubota.com/corporate/board/index.html | title=Directors and Senior Management | Corporate Information | Kubota Global Site }} (CEO and president)

| num_employees = 38,291 (consolidated as of March 31, 2017)

| revenue = {{profit}} $ 14.7 billion (FY 2014)

(¥ 1,508 billion) (FY 2014)

| net_income = {{profit}} $ 1.28 billion (FY 2014)

(¥ 131.66 billion) (FY 2014)

| industry = Agricultural machinery
Heavy equipment
Machine industry

| products = {{unbulleted list|Tractors|Combine harvesters|Rice transplanters|Turf care equipment|Construction equipment|Engines|Vending machines|Gearboxes and Axles|Water treatment systems}}

| homepage = {{URL|http://www.kubota.com/}}

| footnotes = {{cite web |url=http://www.kubota-global.net/c-data/data.html |title=Corporate Data |access-date=August 4, 2014}}{{cite web |url=http://www.kubota-global.net/csr/report/pdf/2013/13alldata.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808063112/http://www.kubota-global.net/csr/report/pdf/2013/13alldata.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 8, 2014 |title=Annual Report 2013 |access-date=August 4, 2014 }}{{cite web |url=https://asia.nikkei.com/Company/001JJB-E |title=Company Profile |work=Nikkei Asian Review |publisher=Nikkei Inc. |access-date=January 31, 2018}}

}}

{{Nihongo|Kubota Corporation|株式会社クボタ|Kabushiki-kaisha Kubota}} is a Japanese multinational corporation based in Osaka. It was established in 1890. The corporation produces many products including tractors and other agricultural machinery, construction equipment, engines, vending machines, pipe, valves, cast metal, pumps, and equipment for water purification, sewage treatment and air conditioning.

Kubota engines are in both diesel and gasoline or spark ignition forms, ranging from the tiny 0.276-liter engine to 6.1-liter engine, in both air-cooled and-liquid cooled designs, naturally-aspirated and forced induction. Cylinder configurations are from single cylinder to inline six cylinders, with single cylinder to four-cylinder being the most common. Those engines are widely used in agricultural equipment, construction equipment, tractors, and marine propulsion.

The corporation is listed on the first section of Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the TOPIX 100{{cite web|url=http://www.tse.or.jp/english/market/topix/data/b7gje60000003v9e-att/Large70-201310-e.pdf |title=TOPIX Large70 Components |publisher=Japan Exchange Group |access-date=August 4, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131013065445/http://www.tse.or.jp/english/market/topix/data/b7gje60000003v9e-att/Large70-201310-e.pdf |archive-date=October 13, 2013 }} and Nikkei 225.{{cite web |url=http://indexes.nikkei.co.jp/en/nkave/index/component?idx=nk225#21 |title=Components:Nikkei Stock Average |publisher=Nikkei Inc. |access-date=August 2, 2014}}

One of its notable contributions was to the construction of the Solar Ark.{{cite book|last=Peddie|first=Jon|url=https://archive.org/details/historyvisualmag00pedd|title=The History of Visual Magic in Computers: How Beautiful Images are Made in CAD, 3D, VR and AR|date=June 13, 2013|publisher=Springer Science+Business Media|isbn=978-1-4471-4932-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyvisualmag00pedd/page/n203 163]|url-access=limited}} Kubota is also known for designing 3D graphics chips in the 1990s.{{Cite web|date=2017-02-13|title=HuC6273 (Aurora)|url=https://cdromrom.wordpress.com/pc-fxga-wip/huc6273-aurora/|access-date=2020-10-18|website=Super CD·Rom² à GoGo|language=en}}

Kubota Tractor Corporation is the American corporation for marketing and distributing Kubota engineered products in the United States, headquartered in Grapevine, TX. This includes products manufactured in the United States by Kubota's American Manufacturing Corporation, called Kubota Manufacturing of America Corporation Headquartered in Gainesville, GA.{{Cite web|title=Kubota {{!}} USA Facilities - Manufacturing & Engineering|url=https://www.kubotausa.com/about/us-facilities|access-date=2021-11-21|website=www.kubotausa.com}}