A new start up program by the Kubota Tractor Corporation will double Landmark’s business with the company
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A new start up program by the Kubota Tractor Corporation will double Landmark’s business with the company. Kubota will introduce the program to the general public in early 2004.
“Kubota is branching out from lawnmowers,” said Kent Critten of Landmark. “It’s the first thing Kubota has built that doesn’t dig holes or mow grass.”
The Kubota corporation made the tooling for the new product itself, and shipped it in along with their people. Landmark had three Japanese visitors over the past week from the tooling company. An interpreter accompanied them. Two Kubota representatives, one out of Georgia and the other out of the company’s headquarters at Osaka, Japan, left last Thursday.
The work for the new product will involve 16 different dyes, which make five different parts. More will be coming in January. Seven new jobs have been created and a new press is currently being set up.
Landmark has been doing business with Kubota since 1990. Kubota makes compact and utility tractors, lawnmowers, pumps and generators, and construction equipment. Landmark started by making one mower deck for the company. At present, Landmark makes up to 40 different part numbers for Kubota.
Landmark Manufacturing, located about seven miles east of Gallatin off Hwy. V, presently employs 250 people in two shifts. [Staff Photo/TLH]