Kubota Corporation · Osaka Japan ·(NYSE: KUB)(Tokyo: 6326)

For over a century, Kubota has been the hand that turns the earth's soil. The diversified enterprise is Japan's largest maker of tractors and farm equipment, from rice transplanters to combine harvesters. It also leads in producing iron ductile pipe used in water-supply systems. Industrial castings (ductile tunnel segments) are part of Kubota's line, too, as well as PVC pipe, building materials (siding, cement roofing, and prefabricated houses), vending machines for cigarettes and beverages, and, even the engines for its agricultural and industrial movers. Relatively new, the company has entered into building water recycling and sewage treatment plants. International sales subsidiaries dot the globe. To read the full description, subscribe now.