Iseki Noki
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| legal form | Kabushiki kaisha (joint stock company) |
| ISIN | JP3139600005 |
| founding | 1936 |
| Seat | Matsuyama , Ehime Prefecture , Japan |
| management | Noriyuki Kimura |
| Number of employees | 6470 (2012) |
| sales | 171 billion yen (€ 1.37 billion as of March 31, 2010) |
| Branch | Manufacturing |
| Website | www.iseki.co.jp |
Iseki Nōki KK ( Japanese 井 関 農機 株式会社 , Iseki Nōki Kabushiki kaisha , literally: "Iseki Agricultural Machinery Aktiengesellschaft", English : ISEKI & Co. Ltd. ) with headquarters in Matsuyama , Ehime Prefecture and a second main location in Arakawa , Tokyo Prefecture is now one of the major agricultural machinery and tractor manufacturers in Japan .
history
The name ISEKI goes back to the company founder Kunisaburō Iseki, who, as the son of a Japanese rice farmer, faced the decision to take over his parents' farm or learn another profession. Kunisaburo Iseki decided to make his contribution to the mechanization and modernization of work in the field.
He founded his first company in 1926 under the name Iseki Nōgu Shōkai ( 井 関 農具 商会 , English Iseki Farm Implement Trading Co. ) The first developments and productions included simple ground implements. The first breakthrough came with the development of the two-wheel tractor with which the soil could be plowed, tilled and cultivated. This made the farmers' work in the fields noticeably easier. The two-wheel tractor thus relieved horse and cow from the plow.
In 1929, Iseki moved the company headquarters to Matsuyama in Ehime Prefecture on Shikoku Island . Today ISEKI has 4 production facilities in Matsuyama, Kumamoto , Niigata and Jiangsu in China . The ISEKI production range now includes special machines for rice production, from plant rearing systems to automatic rice planters, rice harvesters, drying systems and silo systems. Single-axle tractors are still part of the range, although a large number of these machines have now been replaced by 4-wheel tractors (agricultural tractors).
The production of tractors for ISEKI began in 1963 through a license agreement with the Porsche Diesel company in Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance . At this point in time, Porsche stopped production. ISEKI reached a trade agreement with Porsche and took over licenses, parts, tools and work pieces and began its own tractor production in 1964 with the manufacture of Porsche tractors, which were marketed in Japan under the name ISEKI. From these beginnings, the independent development of tractors developed, which ISEKI manufactures today in a complete range of models from 10 kW (15 HP) to 95 kW (129 HP) and sells worldwide.
While initially Iseki diesel engines from Mitsubishi and Isuzu einbaute, it manufactures since 1980 own diesel engines, which are used in all its products are used. Business relationships are also maintained with the manufacturers AGCO (USA), Massey Ferguson (UK) and Perkins (UK).
Among the Japanese agricultural machinery manufacturers, ISEKI is ranked 2nd or 3rd behind Kubota in terms of size , but is in 1st place with the registered patents and thus new developments and innovations (as of 2009).
The organized export of machines to Europe began in 1968. At the same time, the European subsidiary ISEKI-Europe SA was founded in Zaventem near Brussels ( Belgium ) as a subsidiary. Germany was one of the first European countries to have its own importer. The sales department developed continuously here as well and is still operated today by the founding family Hoffmann under the name ISEKI-Maschinen GmbH with headquarters in Meerbusch near Düsseldorf . ISEKI & Co. Ltd. has a 19% stake in the German branch.
Today ISEKI is one of the market leaders in Germany in the tractor class up to 50 HP and covers around 28% of the total. Market volume. ISEKI maintains a central spare parts warehouse in Germany with over 45,000 items and a readiness for delivery of 95% within 24 hours. For the nationwide sales and service network, ISEKI relies on customer service technicians who help with technical questions and train fitters nationwide in the ISEKI training center. In addition to tractors, ISEKI produces its own equipment and attachments such as B. mowers, grass collecting equipment, sweepers , snow blades, trailers and much more and develops them with a development department working on site. In Europe, tractors in this performance class are mainly used in small agricultural units, by hobby farmers, riding stables or for area maintenance by municipalities, municipalities, horticultural companies, landscapers and winter service providers.
Since 1995 ISEKI has been developing many countries in Eastern Europe from Germany. So z. B. Czech Republic , Hungary , Slovakia , Poland , Bulgaria , Romania , Ukraine and Russia processed from Germany.
The current program has been expanded in recent years, not least to underline the leadership competence in the field of landscape maintenance, to include additional special machines such as large-area mowers, implement carriers for year-round use, diesel mowing tractors and utility vehicles.
See also
literature
- ISEKI & Co., Ltd .: ISEKI Profiles. Tokyo 1987
- Armin Bauer: Porsche tractor . Obershagen 2003, ISBN 978-3933426116
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Iseki Nōki: 会 社 概要 ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
