Ibiden
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| legal form | Kabushiki kaisha (joint stock company) |
| ISIN | JP3148800000 |
| founding | November 25, 1912 |
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Ōgaki , Gifu Prefecture , Japan
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| management | Hiroki Takenaka (President & CEO) |
| Number of employees | 14,306 (2015) |
| sales | 318 billion yen (2.5 billion euros ) (2015) |
| Branch | Ceramic industry |
| Website | www.ibiden.com |
| As of March 31, 2015 | |
Ibiden KK ( Japanese イ ビ デ ン 株式会社 , Ibiden Kabushiki kaisha , English Ibiden Co., Ltd. ) is a Japanese supplier of ceramic products in various industrial sectors worldwide. The main business areas are electronic products (printed circuit boards or circuit boards made of various materials as well as ceramic compounds for ICs, graphics chips and microprocessors), technical ceramics and fiber wool for industry and especially for the automotive industry. In addition to fiber mats for catalytic converters and as heat shields as well as diesel soot particle filters (DPF), Ibiden also manufactures fine ceramics for various applications and graphite (especially: carbon parts).
Other business areas include materials for the construction industry (including slope design and horticulture.) As well as for house construction / technology (u a.. Melamine - laminates ). Measurement and analysis systems for the detection of pollutants in the environment as well as medical software , synthetic resin ( polyurethane cast resin or foam resin) and much more.
Together with the French automotive supplier Faurecia , Ibdiden was the first company in the world to develop the diesel particulate filter for series production. As is well known, the first use was in 2000, when Peugeot equipped the 406 and 607 and Citroën equipped the C5 with a filter as standard. At that time Ibiden was producing the DPF in a joint venture with the French company Saint-Gobain in France - today with around 244 employees.
organization
According to its own information, Ibiden employs 14,306 people worldwide at 39 locations (16 in Japan, 23 abroad). Various Japanese banks and the automobile manufacturer Toyota are the main shareholders (just under 5% each). In addition to the CEO, who is also the President, and the three so-called Executive Managing Officers, the company has two Senior Managing Officers and five Managing Officers, which is quite unusual considering the size of the company.
history
In 1912 the company was founded as Ibigawa Denryoku KK ( 揖 斐川 電力 株式会社 ) in Ōgaki . At that time the company was located in the Akasaka district , Tokyo. Initially, the focus was on power plants for generating energy and blast furnaces, and later also with electric melting furnaces. With the help of the furnaces - later the electric smelting furnace - various materials such as carbide / calcium carbide , magnesium , ferrosilicon and carbon were produced . These are all materials (alloying agents) for making steel. In 1916 the Nishi-Yokoyama power plant was connected to the grid. In 1917, a carbide production facility was opened in Ogaki. In 1921 the hydroelectric power station in Higashi-Yokoyama on the Ibi River in Ogaki went online. In 1919 carbide and carbon were manufactured and sold.
In 1949, the first electric tunnel kiln for carbon sintering in Japan was completed at the Aoyanagi plant . In 1960 decorative IBI-BOARD melamine laminate was sold. In 1969, specialty graphite products were manufactured for the first time.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Ibiden developed high-temperature sintered materials and the first printed circuit boards in 1972. In 1974 the first ceramic fiber mats (brand name: IBI wool) were produced. In 1982 the name was changed to the form Ibiden KK, which is valid today. In 1988 the first materials for encapsulating ICs (Plastic IC Package Substrates) were produced in the Gama plant. In 1998 the aluminum silicate fiber mats for vehicle catalytic converters were produced. In 1999 the world's first diesel particulate filter made of silicon carbide was introduced, which then went into series production in 2000. Initially, the DPF were manufactured in the Japanese factory in Ogaki-Kita. In 2001, together with Saint-Gobain in France, the DPF plant for the European market was completed. In 2004, a further DPF plant was opened in Hungary (25 km south of Budapest in Dunavarsány ) and in 2013 a further subsidiary was founded in Mexico ( Villa de Reyes , San Luis Potosí ) and another DPF plant was built there shortly afterwards. The Mexican plant started production in June 2015.
Products
Fiber mats, particle filters and SCR catalysts
Alongside the US companies 3M and Unifrax, Ibiden is one of the few manufacturers of aluminum silicate fiber mats for storing vehicle catalysts worldwide . According to the EU guidelines, these fiber mats (aluminum silicate fibers - English Refractory Ceramic Fiber, RCF ) are classified as carcinogenic (Category 2).
In 2001 Ibiden entered into a joint venture with the French company Saint-Gobain because the French have intensive, worldwide contacts with the automotive industry; not least because of their Sekurit safety glass. In addition, Saint-Gobain has its own production facilities for silicon carbide and the like. a. in Lillesand Norway. In 2003 Ibiden learned that their joint venture partner Saint-Gobain was working on the development of their own DPF themselves. The first production line for prototypes by the French was in Lauf near Nuremberg. In 2006, Saint-Gobain opened a factory for the series production of DPFs in Rödental, Franconia, and Poland. (Sources include: Nürnberger Nachrichten of October 23, 2003). Ibiden's production capacity in 2008 was around 1 million DPFs per year. Thanks to the new plants in Hungary and Mexico, the worldwide capacity should now amount to several million DPFs per year. On October 5, 2009, a technical center was opened in Hungary to support customers and their various applications. In March 2013, after the completion of building 4, the production of catalyst fiber mats began. Around 2,400 people are currently employed in Hungary. The plant is 99% owned by Ibiden European Holdings BV (Netherlands) and 1% by the Japanese parent company.
In December 2013 Ibiden celebrated the production of the 30 millionth DPF and the 15 millionth DPF produced in Hungary. Production started in Mexico in mid-2015. Most of the DPFs for heavy commercial vehicles are manufactured there.
Ibiden Ceram GmbH in Frauental, Austria, has been producing not only non-catalytic honeycomb bodies (heat storage and foundry filters) but also SCR catalysts made from titanium oxide, tungsten oxide and vanadium pentoxide since 1985 . In 2005 the newly developed SCR diesel catalytic converter for commercial vehicles was launched on the market. The company has been part of the Ibiden Group since 2012. As a result of the expansion strategy, subsidiaries were founded in the USA (Ibiden Ceram Environmental Inc. in Kansas), in South Korea (Ceram Frauenthal Korea Co. Ltd. in Seoul) and an office was opened in Beijing. This division currently employs more than 450 people.
Electronics products
50 percent of net sales are generated with electronic products (in comparison: the ceramics business - including DPF - accounts for around 31%). These are mainly found in computers as well as cell phones and smartphones. Key product groups are so-called FVSS ( Free via stacked up structure ) for the particularly compact HDI circuit boards and fcCSP substrates for chip scale packages . Ibiden used in this case, the flip chip in which the The is applied after metallization its external contacts reversed on the board to a low to reach housing base.
In March 2015, Ibiden was the only supplier to receive the “Supplier Continuance Quality Improvement (SCQI)” award from Intel Corporation for excellent compliance with technology, costs and delivery conditions. In February 2015, the Japanese already received the "Best Partner Award" from Samsung Electronics.
Web links
- Official website (Japanese, English)
- Ibiden Hungary Kft. Website (Hungarian, English)
- Ibiden Ceram GmbH website (German, English)
- Company profile (PDF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Annual Report 2015 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ FVSS ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Buid-up CSP ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
