Kyocera
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| legal form | Kabushiki-gaisha (joint stock company) |
| ISIN | JP3249600002 |
| founding | April 1, 1959 |
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Kyoto , Japan
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| Number of employees | 76,683 (2018) |
| sales | 1.6 trillion Yen (EUR 13 billion) (2018) |
| Branch | Conglomerate |
| Website | www.kyocera.com |
The Kyocera KK [ 'kjoː.'sɛ.ɾə ] ( ) ( Japanese 京 セ ラ 株式会社 , Kyōsera Kabushiki-gaisha , Eng. Kyocera Corporation ), listed in the Nikkei 225 , is a Japanese company based in Kyoto.
Kyocera is mainly known to private users in Europe for the printers , copiers and multifunctional devices of its subsidiary Kyocera Document Solutions (formerly: Kyocera Mita). Furthermore, the company is one of the leading manufacturers in the field of photovoltaics and has been selling photovoltaic modules worldwide since the mid-1970s. In the industrial sector, Kyocera is active worldwide as a manufacturer of cutting tools .
The Kyocera Group
Kyocera Corporation, headquartered in Kyoto, is one of the world's leading suppliers of fine ceramic components for the technology industry. Strategically important business areas of the Kyocera Group, which consists of 298 subsidiaries (March 31, 2020), are information and communication technology, products to improve the quality of life and environmentally friendly products. The technology group is one of the most experienced producers of smart energy systems worldwide, with more than 40 years of industry expertise. In 2020, Kyocera ranked 549 in Forbes Magazine's "Global 2000" list, which includes the largest publicly traded companies worldwide.
With around 75,500 employees, Kyocera generated net annual sales of around EUR 13.33 billion in the 2019/2020 financial year. In Europe, the company sells printers and digital copier systems, semiconductor, fine ceramics, automotive and electronic components, as well as print heads and ceramic kitchen products.
Kyocera is represented in Germany by five independent companies:
- Kyocera Europe GmbH in Neuss and Esslingen,
- Kyocera Fineceramics Precision GmbH in Selb,
- Kyocera Fineceramics Solutions GmbH in Mannheim,
- Kyocera Automotive and Industrial Solutions GmbH in Dietzenbach
- and Kyocera Document Solutions GmbH in Meerbusch.
The company is also culturally involved: the Inamori Foundation, which was set up by the company founder and named after him, is awarded the Kyoto Prize, one of the world's most highly endowed awards for the life's work of high-ranking scientists and artists (currently equivalent to around 828,000 euros *).
history
The company was founded in 1959 by Kazuo Inamori as Kyoto Ceramics and has also been represented on the European market since the early 1970s. In 1969, the US subsidiary started operations.
In 1983 the group was renamed from Kyoto Ceramic Co., Ltd. to Kyocera Corporation . In the same year, Kyocera merged with Yashica Camera Co., Ltd. This also included rights of use to the traditional Contax brand , which still belongs to Carl Zeiss AG, in the Kyocera Group's product portfolio. The cameras continued to be sold under the “Contax” and “Yashica” brands. From 1996 to 2004 digital cameras were also offered under the name "Kyocera".
Kyocera DR-350
Contax i4R
Contax U4R
Contax SL300RT
Kyocera Finecam SL300R
Kyocera Finecam SL400R
In 1985 the company founder donated the renowned Kyoto Prize in the categories of high technology, basic research, and art and philosophy.
In 1990 the AVX Corporation was taken over.
In August 1999, the group took over the Golden Genesis Company of Scottsdale , Arizona , renamed Kyocera Solar, Inc. (KSI), and Mita Industrial Co., Ltd. in 2000 . In 2002 Toshiba Chemical Corp. reorganized and incorporated into Kyocera Chemical Corp. transformed.
In April 2005, Kyocera announced that it would withdraw from the camera business. In September 2005, the delivery of Contax cameras and accessories was discontinued.
Kyocera was the main sponsor of the first division football club Borussia Mönchengladbach until June 30, 2009 . The company took over the German company Triumph-Adler in January 2009 , the CEYONIQ group in October 2015 and the software manufacturer Optimal Systems in spring 2020.
Products
- Printers / multifunction devices
- Fine ceramic components
- Microelectronic components
- Ultra-high vacuum components
- Fiber optic
- Industrial printing components
- LCDs and glass / glass touch panels
- Automotive components
- Cutting tools
- Photovoltaic systems
- Watch and jewelry industry
- Office products
- Kitchen products (e.g. ceramic knives)
- Mobile phones
- Cameras / digital cameras (discontinued in 2005)
- DMS / ECM software
Innovations were the small image mirror reflex cameras "CONTAX RTS III" and "CONTAX AX". Perforated ceramic film pressure plates were used there for the first time, in which the film was sucked in by negative pressure while it was being picked up. With the AX, the autofocus function was implemented for the first time by means of a movable film layer mounted in ceramic in the camera housing. This meant that all existing manual lenses could continue to be used.
In 1982, Isuzu introduced a passenger car with a three-cylinder diesel engine built by Kyocera. Due to the high heat resistance of the ceramic components, the engine neither required a water cooler nor cooling fins on the cylinder head for air cooling.
Web links
- Company history (English)
- Kyocera Germany
- Kyocera Austria
- Kyocera environmental award
- Kyocera Solar Germany
- Official website of Contax UK (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Corporate Summary , as of March 31, 2019
- ^ New York Times: Kyocera to Merge With Yashica .
- ↑ Photo magazine: Milestones in digital photography .
- ↑ DR-350 in the digital camera museum ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ishikawa Akira: Kyoto Model, The: The Challenge Of Japanese Management Strategy Meeting Global Standards. World Scientific, 2005, ISBN 978-9-814-48039-0 , p. 51 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- ↑ IWR Solar: Kyocera International, Inc. completes merger with Golden Genesis Company .
- ↑ Kyocera Mita merges two sales channels .
- ↑ Handelsblatt: Temporary end also for the German traditional brand Contax, which is manufactured under license - Kyocera is getting out of digital cameras .
- ↑ photoscala: Kyocera gives up camera business ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Kyocera reaches for Triumph-Adler. In: tagesschau.de. January 21, 2009, accessed May 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Result burdened: Kyocera takes over majority of Triumph-Adler. In: Handelsblatt.com. January 19, 2009, accessed May 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Kyocera Document Solutions takes over CEYONIQ Group
- ↑ KYOCERA takes over OPTIMAL SYSTEMS. In: optimal-systems.de. January 10, 2020, accessed May 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Golem: Kyocera brings outdoor smartphone to Germany .
- ↑ KYOCERA is massively expanding activities around DMS and ECM
- ↑ Eberhard Kimmer. In: Illustrierter Motorsport (Berlin), issue 10/1983, pp. 212-213.
