The Kubota Group’s 2025 fiscal year closed on a stable note.
The Japanese multinational confirmed the solidity of its industrial operations, recording total revenues of approximately €18.5 billion, up 0.1% year-over-year and therefore virtually stable compared to 2024.
Despite this, operating profits declined 15.9% year-over-year to approximately €1.45 billion, primarily due to trade difficulties resulting from the introduction of tariffs on the US market.
Expectations for the current fiscal year are rosier, with the Osaka-based group’s management expecting a gross revenue increase of approximately 5%, a goal that should also be supported by the recent expansion of its product offering.
Kubota dedicated to the forage sector. The Osaka-based group made its first move into the compact square baler segment at the National Farm Machinery Show, a US trade show held in Kentucky from February 11 to 14. At the show, the Japanese multinational presented its two new compact square balers, the “SSB2012” and “SSB2014.”
These balers operate through a double baling chamber fed by a rotor that separates the harvested crop into two distinct feed channels, each of which conveys the forage into two separate baling chambers equipped with independent binding systems. The goal of the new machines is to increase hourly productivity, a goal Kubota engineers also pursued through the development of unloading ramps that align the bales along a single row, thus speeding up subsequent harvesting operations.
Title: Kubota Group: stability and relaunch
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