• Altınboğa was established in Istanbul by Mr. Oktay Demirag in 1957. When the calendar were showing the year 1965, Altinboga was already manufacturing a range of spare parts for various Original Equipment Manufacturers in Automotive Industry in the factory with a indoor space of 3500 square meters at the shore of Golden Horn in Istanbul, Turkey.
• Between 1970 and 1979, Altinboga were developed two different passenger car models in different categories and four different models of diesel engines with different output range with 250 employees in it’s factory.
• In early 90’s, Altinboga have manufactured a line of light duty commercial vehicles powered by the diesel engines that have produced in the very same factory. It was Turkey’s first licensed, patented, tested and produced light duty commercial vehicle with 100% local material and workmanship.
• Just after 40 years of it’s foundation, Altinboga became an extraordinary company who has it’s own technology and know-how in Automotive industry. That was the primary reason that in 1996, Altinboga has appointed as The National Distributor of Kubota Corporation (a titanic Japanese automotive conglomerate which was established in 1890 at Osaka, Japan) in Turkey, for the industrial use diesel engines with liquid cooling.
• The very first line of diesel engines that Altinboga have manufactured in early 70’s, still on display at the Rahmi M. Koc Industry Museum in Istanbul,
as one of a the mile stones of the national automotive industry.
• Since 1996, Altinboga is offering Kubota industrial diesel engines as the most suitable solution in many aspects to the Original Equipment Manufacturers of power generator, industrial equipment and construction machinery in Turkey.
• Kubota started as a foundry by Gonshiro Kubota on the year 1890 at Osaka city in Japan. Just some years after it’s foundation; started to produce cast iron pipes to water supply which is a necessity to prevent contaminated water based epidemics in populated cities.
• After this first success in producing cast iron pipes and waterwork equipments; in 1922, Kubota has started mass production of oil-based engines for agro-industrial purposes to help the improve of the rice agriculture in Japan.
• This new product line of Kubota, led the company to starting the production of diesel engines in 1931. In post-war years, Kubota expanded it’s product assortment from diesel engines to economical construction and agricultural machines with high energy efficiency and performance.
• 1969 was the year when Kubota expanded it’s tractor business in United States of America. In just a couple of years having a full-entry into American market; in 1971, Kubota has received the first emission compliance from CARB for a industrial diesel engine with less than 20 kW output. This made Kubota a pioneering company in the construction machine and agricultural industry by powering it’s machines with eco-friendly, emission compliant, compact industrial diesel engines.
• In about 90 years, Kubota have manufactured more than 50 million diesel engines around the world in it’s 5 factories and brought profitable solutions to The Original Equipment Manufacturers of automotive, agriculture and construction machinery industries as a eco-friendly, compact, high performance and energy efficient, durable and economic diesel engines manufacturer.
• Altinboga with it’s stakeholders and employees in a team spirit that sharing a similar vision and mission statement to Kubota’s “Societies keeps corporations going forward” philosophy and “For Earth, For Life” slogan; will keep serving to the development of Turkey along with Kubota’s industrial diesel engines in coming years.
