KIOTI Tractor, Wendell, NC, a division of Daedong Industrial Company Ltd, has recently announced the promotion of Michael Greene to Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Greene was most recently the company's Director of Planning and Coordination and prior was Supply Chain Manager.

Greene's promotion is one of three recent strategic moves within the company designed to better balance the international and domestic aspects of the business and to provide a strong and well-rounded management team to lead the company in North America.

Greene has been with KIOTI since January 2004. He came to the company with many years of industrial/agricultural experience in product development, project and program management, operations and manufacturing. Greene holds a degree in Agricultural Engineering from Virginia Tech and is a long-standing Member of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.

KIOTI Tractor is located in Wendell, North Carolina. They offer 30 tractor models ranging from 22 to 90 hp along with a choice of loader booms and buckets, backhoes and other attachments and implements designed to get work done efficiently. Their new UTV - The Ultimate Transport Vehicle is scheduled to be available at dealers soon. KIOTI continually strives to develop new tractor, implement and attachment designs and other products to satisfy the farm, hobby farm, landscaping, utility construction, light construction and utility construction markets.

They are members of AEM in addition to being involved with several other trade associations serving the farm equipment, landscaping and related industries. They are now celebrating more than twenty years in North America.