K & D Equipment Co Inc, 915 S 12th Ave, Cornelius, OR 97113, US

The story of Jacto is really the story of its founder, Shunji Nishimura. It reads like a classic Horatio Alger story: A poor young immigrant arrives in a new country with nothing more than big dreams, and after years of hard work ( and a few failures ) succeeds in creating a winning global company. The only difference is, this story happened in Brazil. In the early 1930s when Japan was mired in economic crisis, twenty-year-old Nishimura boarded a ship for Brazil. Eventually, he found work in the city, and over the next few years served as a waiter, worked his way through school, and then when his money ran out, took a job in a factory. After a failed business, he took his family to the town of Pompeia, far from Brazil's major cities. There he set up a repair shop with a sign that read, "We Fix Anything." Among the things he fixed were the portable agricultural dusters used by the local farmers to help them grow healthy crops. In 1948 he began manufacturing his own dusters. He named the company and its products "Jacto, " the Portuguese word for jet because their stream resembled the contrail of the newly invented aircraft. Today the name denotes speed, strength, and power. His first sprayers were not perfect but Nishimura guaranteed them, quickly making repairs or replacing faulty units. His philosophy was "Never abandon a farmer using our equipment." And, today while Jacto products are impeccable, this same operating philosophy remains. Today, Jacto has a lot to be proud of. Over 1, 700 employees manufacture over 100 different models of sprayers, from backpack manual to state of the art self-propelled. We also manufacture other products like coffee harvesters, but the most important products remain sprayers. Jacto products are sold in over 80 countries worldwide and consistently rank first in the world for sprayers.