The weight of tradition. This Tuesday, July 5, Dai Watanabe gave a present after his speech. A canvas depicting the famous Mount Fuji, with a cherry blossom tree in the foreground. Without being an expert in Japanese ceremonial, everything suggests that this gift symbolizes the hopes of prosperity nourished by the ruler of Osaka.
The simple presence in Thionville of the number 2 of the Kubota group testifies to the importance of the inaugurated site. In this case, the brand new logistics center of the Japanese giant, self-proclaimed world leader in the design and manufacture of agricultural machinery: “This center is the group’s fourth. There is one in the United States, one in Japan, one in Thailand and this one, for Europe”, lists Franck Claudon, director of the project. Claudon, a familiar name in Thionville-Metzange. He is already the head of Kverneland, the neighboring company. A Norwegian entity acquired in 2012 by Kubota and operating in the same business sector.
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1,500 parcels shipped every day
By investing €15 million in this second building with a surface area of 22,000 m², the parent company is spreading its ambitions more deeply on rue des Terres Rouges. Kubota has simply given birth to a continental-scale logistics hub: “We are going to increase our productivity and reduce our delivery times,” rejoices Yasukazu Kamada, president of the Europe holding company.
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Awake since 1is last December, this spare parts storage center quickly found its cruising speed. Under the impetus of employees specific to Kubota and its logistics partner Transalliance, the activity should cover one million order lines at the end of this first year of operation. Other dizzying data: the site has 35,060 pallet spaces and ships between 1,500 and 1,600 packages per day across Europe.
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To run this juggernaut, Kubota has created 90 jobs. Sign of good health: “We have a volume of activity for twenty more employees”, observes Franck Claudon. The director has in mind the objective assigned by the upper echelons of the group: “Deliver our spare parts on time, that is to say the next morning after the order”, he insists under the gaze friend of Pierre Cuny. The mayor of Thionville, a stakeholder in this extension, did not fail to salute the driving role played by Kubota: “A territory like ours needs symbols. Kubota is one. I don’t forget that its establishment, ten years ago, made it possible to establish the strategic position of our territory. Behind, there was Knauf in Illange and now Europort. Like a good samurai, Kubota paved the way.
