Kubota maintains its status as world’s leading compact excavator manufacturer
The compact excavator market will have seen growth in 2014. Yet despite several years of recovery it will still not have returned to its pre-recession levels. The compact excavator, defined as a hydraulic excavator with a maximum tonnage of 6t, has become a primarily European machine. Kubota, the undisputed market leader, is making steady progress. Olivier Vanneufville, the Public Woks division director at Kubota Europe SAS, the French subsidiary of the manufacturer, explains Kubota’s strategy and sets out its objectives in France.