Iseki
Iseki K. K. Noki (Japanese井 关 农机 株式会社, Iseki Noki Kabushiki - gaisha, literally " Iseki agricultural machinery corporation", English:. . Iseki & Co., Ltd. ), headquartered in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture and a second headquarters in Arakawa, Tokyo Prefecture is now to large agricultural machinery and tractor manufacturers in Japan.
History
The name ISEKI leads back to the company's founder Kunisaburō Iseki, who was the son of a Japanese rice farmers before deciding to take over the family farm or to learn another profession. Kunisaburo Iseki decided to make its contribution to the mechanization and modernization of work on the field.
He founded his first company in 1926 under the name of Iseki Nogu Shokai (井 关 农具 商会, Eng. Iseki Farm Implement Trading Co.) One of the first developments and productions were simple ground work equipment. The first breakthrough came with the development of the tiller with one plow the ground, milled and could cultivate. The work of the farmers on the field so that eased noticeably. The two-wheel tractor, triggering Horse and Cow in front of the plow.
Iseki 1929 moved the company headquarters to Matsuyama in Ehime Prefecture on the island of Shikoku. Today ISEKI has 4 production sites in Matsuyama, Kumamoto, Niigata and Jiangsu in China. The ISEKI product range today includes special machines for rice production, from plant breeding system on rice planting machine, Reismähdrescher, drying systems to silo system. Cultivators are still on the program, although a variety of these machines have been replaced today by 4- wheel tractors ( agricultural tractors).
The production of tractors began for ISEKI in 1963 through a license agreement with the company Porsche Diesel in Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance. Porsche introduced at this time, just the production one. ISEKI was in agreement with Porsche and took over licenses, parts, tools and work pieces and started his own tractor production in 1964 with the production of Porsche tractors that have been marketed in Japan under the name ISEKI. From these beginnings, the independent development of tractors ISEKI made today in a complete model range of 10kW ( 15HP ) to 95 kW ( 129 hp ) and markets developed.
While ISEKI einbaute initially, the diesel engines from Mitsubishi and Isuzu since 1980 provides ISEKI own diesel engine exhausts, which are used in all its products. Furthermore, relationships with manufacturers AGCO (USA), Massey -Ferguson (UK), Perkins (UK) are maintained.
Among the Japanese manufacturers of agricultural machinery is ISEKI in size classification on rank 2 or 3 behind Kubota, however, lies with the registered patents and thus new developments and innovations in the first place (as of 2009 ).
The organized export of machinery to Europe began ISEKI in 1968. Simultaneously, the own establishment Europe was ISEKI Europe SA in Zaventem founded as a subsidiary in Brussels ( Belgium). Germany was one of the first countries in Europe with its own importer. The distribution also developed continuously and is today still operated by the founding family Hoffmann under the name ISEKI -Maschinen GmbH with headquarters in Meerbusch near Dusseldorf. ISEKI & Co. Ltd.. holds a 19% stake in Germany office.
ISEKI is today one of Germany's market leader in the class of tractor to 50 hp and covers about 28 % of the postage. Market volume from. ISEKI maintains in Germany a central spare parts warehouse with over 45,000 items and a delivery capability of 95 % in 24 hours. For the nationwide sales and service network, ISEKI based on customer service technicians who help with technical questions and train technicians nationwide in ISEKI training center. In addition to tractors ISEKI in Germany provides own equipment items and attachments such as Mowers, Grass collectors, Sweepers, snow blades, trailers and more manufactures and develops them with a locally active development department. Tractors in this class are used in Europe mainly in small agricultural units, and hobby farmers, horse farms, or for ground maintenance at communes, municipalities, nurseries, landscapers, winter service providers.
Since 1995 ISEKI deduced from many countries of Eastern Europe from Germany. Thus, for example, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine and Russia edited from Germany.
The current program was to emphasize in recent years, not least to the leadership in the green industry for more specialist machinery such as large area mower, equipment rack for year-round use, diesel tractor mowers, utility vehicles expands.