Industrial materials are not only the raw materials for products that support human life but also vital for industries as component of manufacturing equipment. For Kubota, which started out in 1890 as a casting manufacturer, the industrial materials business may be called one of the origins of its operations. Starting with balance weights, Kubota succeeded mainly in the field of special steel casting products such as cast steel pipes, and steel pipe piles, which led to the company making major advances. From the 1980s, the company has also been developing industrial materials other than steel castings, using new materials and technologies, to meet the changing and expanding needs of the times and markets. Today, we make industrial materials, from structural materials to advanced new materials, for a broad spectrum of industrial fields, including petrochemicals and petroleum refining, steel and machinery, civil engineering and construction, and automobile, using our proprietary process technologies tailored for different applications. With a total commitment to meeting every different customer request and to pursuing study, we have developed technologies that make us an industry leader. Kubota's core technologies are used not only in materials research and development but also at several different points of manufacturing processes, including forming, molding, and processing. We can propose and supply the best industrial material products for your particular application from innumerable combinations of these, based on our know-how to achieve the purpose of the installation, even under the most challenging environmental conditions. Lately, expectation and demand for industrial materials have been further increasing both in Japan and overseas in line with the development of emerging economies. Always staying close to customers, Kubota will continue to support industry worldwide by offering high-value industrial materials which can contribute to improvement of quality, productivity and efficiency.