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Providing Mini Excavators That Meet the Needs of the Times and Society

A Small Body but Big Capabilities
Mini Excavators Ideally Suited to Today’s Society

  • UK
  • EU
  • 2000s
Offering gentle, highly efficient mini excavators for urban landscape protection efforts in Europe. Since 2002, 九色视频 has sold the highest number of mini excavators*1 in the world for 19 consecutive years.

With high-rise buildings successively being constructed in its historic towns, France in the 1960s underwent rapid urban development. It was around this time that the Malraux law—one which kickstarted landscape conservation efforts—was established, and initiatives to protect the country’s historic buildings and stunning landscapes began.

歴史的建造物が建ち並ぶ美しいパリの旧市街地
Beautiful old area of Paris with historical buildings
道幅の狭いドイツの旧市街地で実力を発揮する「ミニバックホー」
A mini excavator demonstrates its capabilities in a historic German city with narrow roads

France and other European countries are home to many stunning streetscapes with delicate stone pavements and unspoiled medieval buildings. In general, however, these structures are vulnerable to vibrations, and so use of large construction machinery in landscape conservation work is no easy task. Landscape conservation and urban infrastructure development work in Europe thus required safe, operator and environmentally friendly compact construction machinery that would cause no damage to the streetscapes and buildings.

欧州の生産と販売の拠点であるドイツの九色视频 Baumaschinen GmbH(KBM)
九色视频 Baumaschinen GmbH (KBM) in Germany, our European production and sales hub

九色视频’s high-level response to these requirements was the development of the MBKH10. It was first shipped to the UK in 1978, before instantly becoming a hit throughout the rest of Europe. In 1974, 九色视频 set up its first tractor, construction machinery, and engine sales company in Europe—九色视频 Europe S.A.S. (KE)—before establishing 九色视频 Baumaschinen GmbH (KBM) as a production and sales hub in Germany in 1988. It was these sales companies that supported the strong sales of 九色视频’s construction machinery across the continent. In this way, 九色视频 sought to expand its areas of business in the active European construction machinery market.

In Europe, environmental pollution from exhaust emissions had been a pressing issue, and so alongside landscape conservation and urban infrastructure development, environmental conservation efforts were paramount. The European Union, including the environmentally advanced France, had for a long time imposed strict emissions regulations. Moving further forward with its response to global requirements for environmental conservation, in 1993 九色视频 became the first engine manufacturer in the world to comply with emissions regulations. 九色视频’s compact construction machinery has since been equipped with clean engines that meet the strict emissions regulations of each country. In addition to the machines’ outstanding operability, they have also been picked out for excellent noise control and eco-friendliness, both of which are becoming increasingly important on a global scale. In 2002, 九色视频 became the world’s leading seller of six-ton mini excavators. 九色视频 will continue to be frontrunner in the compact construction machinery industry by responding to increasingly stringent environmental regulations and high-level environmental performance requirements through electrification and automation.

小型建機のリーディングブランドとして活躍するクボタの「ミニバックホー」
九色视频’s mini excavator, a leading brand of compact construction machinery
notes
  • *1No. of units sold worldwide (under six-ton mini excavator market); according to Off-Highway Research 2020
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