TDK
| Tokyo Denkikagaku Kogyo
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| legal form | Kabushiki-gaisha ( joint stock company ) |
| ISIN | JP3538800008 |
| founding | December 1935 |
| Seat | Chūō , Tokyo , Japan |
| management | President: Shigenao Ishiguro |
| Number of employees | 107,138 (2020) |
| sales | JPY 1,363 billion (2020) |
| Branch | electronic parts and components |
| Website |
www.tdk.com www.tdk.co.jp |
| As of March 31, 2020 | |
The TDK Corporation ( Jap. TDK 株式会社 , TDK Kabushiki-gaisha ; from 東京電気化学工業 T okyo D enki K agaku Kōgyō ) listed in the Nikkei 225 , is a Japanese manufacturer of electronic parts and components.
Today the main products are sensors , capacitors , coils , ferrites , magnets , SAW filters , protective components , voltage converters and power supplies . Customers come mainly from the automotive industry, telecommunications industry and electrical engineering manufacturers.
In the 1980s , the company was first known to the public for its range of compact cassettes and, for the decades that followed, VHS cassettes , CDs & DVDs . Today TDK has largely disappeared from the private customer segment, but it can be assumed that due to the wide range of products many electrical end products contain one or more TDK components.
The company was founded on December 7, 1935 in Japan as a manufacturer of ferrites that had recently been discovered by Yogoro Katō . Shigenao Ishiguro has been the company's President since 2016 .
From 2007 the brand TDK for storage media was taken over by Imation .
In December 2015, TDK submitted a takeover offer to the Swiss semiconductor manufacturer Micronas , which is supported by the Micronas Board of Directors. Accordingly, Micronas is to be taken over for around 214 million francs. The transaction would close by March 2016.
TDK lambda
The subsidiary for power products was taken over by TDK in 2005. Founded in New York in 1948 , mainly active in Europe and North America, Lambda was taken over by Veeco in 1966 and signed a long-term import / export contract with the Japanese power supply manufacturer Nippon Electronic Memory Industry Co., Ltd in 1975 (three years later with VEECO shares transferred to Nemic-Lambda Co., Ltd.), was incorporated into DENSEI-LAMBDA KK in 2006 (the Japanese company was formed in 1999 through a complete merger of Nemic-Lambda with Nippon Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (NEIC)) and renamed the current name TDK-Lambda in 2008 when it became fully owned by TDK. In addition to the three domestic operations in Nagaoka (first operation of the former Nippon Electronic Memory Industry, technical center since 2009), Inashiki and Fukuoka , TDK now operates foreign technical facilities in Wuxi (China), Senai , Kuantan (Malaysia) and Khlng Nueng (Thailand ), Karmiel (Israel), Achern (Germany), Ilfracombe (United Kingdom) and Neptune (New Jersey) .
TDK-EPC
In 2008 TDK took over the German manufacturer of electronic components Epcos AG, founded in 1989 as Siemens Matsushita Components with headquarters in Munich , for 1.2 billion euros. EPCOS, which already had a trading network in Europe, South America and India, is expanding the Japanese group to include the automotive, industrial and telecommunications application sectors.
Since April 27, 2018, Epcos has held a majority stake of 50.2% in Relyon Plasma GmbH, a research, development and manufacturing company in the field of plasma technology (surface pretreatment, component cleaning and disinfection).
TDK-Micronas
In 2016 TDK took over the Swiss manufacturer of Hall sensors Micronas AG. TDK- Micronas has its operational headquarters in Freiburg im Breisgau . TDK-Micronas produces a wide range of Hall effect sensors for a wide variety of applications, as well as high-voltage microcontrollers for the direct control of BLDC motors.
TDK InvenSense
On May 18, 2017, the CEOs of TDK Corporation and InvenSense announced that TDK's acquisition of InvenSense has been completed. InvenSense is a system-on-a-chip manufacturer of SoCs for recording movement and position, image and sound in game controllers, smartphones and head-mounted displays.
Plant closings in Europe
At the end of 2002 the TDK factory in Rammelsbach / Pfalz was closed. It produced since 1986 audio cassettes, and since 1988 radially belted hard inductances and from August 2001 to SMD inductances for the European electronics market.
At the end of May 2006, the TDK plant in Bascharage (Luxembourg), which produced blank CDs and DVDs, was closed. Instead, TDK focuses on the further development of the Blu-ray Disc (e.g. Durabis ).
Blank CD and DVD discs are still produced for TDK by ODM manufacturers such as CMC Magnetics , Moser Baer India and Taiyo Yuden .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ TDK: Executive Lineup. June 29, 2016, accessed January 2, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Financial Information - Summary. TDK Corporation, 2020, accessed July 2, 2020 .
- ↑ TDK - Product Portal. Retrieved January 20, 2018 .
- ↑ Company data on the official website of the Japanese parent company: Overview | Corporate information | Corporate Profile | TDK ( Memento from July 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Representative Director, President and CEO, Shigenao Ishiguro. Retrieved January 20, 2018 .
- ↑ theregister.co.uk
- ↑ TDK wants to incorporate Micronas. Handelszeitung, December 17, 2015, accessed on December 19, 2015 .
- ^ Page of the North American website about the company: About Lambda Americas
- ↑ History of the Japanese TDK-Lambda on his website: History TDK-Lambda
- ↑ Company history on the German website: TDK-Lambda Germany
- ↑ Representation of the worldwide company network on the international website of the Japanese headquarters: Overseas Network
- ↑ EPCOS Investor Relations: Annual Report 2009 p. 3 GENERAL
- ↑ Description of the takeover on TDK's website: TDK-EPC Corporation ( Memento from June 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ TDK subsidiary EPCOS acquires majority in Relyon Plasma - TDK Europe - EPCOS. Retrieved June 15, 2018 .
- ↑ Competent competition authorities approve takeover of Micronas by TDK | micronas.com. In: www.micronas.com. Retrieved December 29, 2016 .
- ↑ TDK subsidiary Micronas receives new company name "TDK-Micronas" | micronas.com. In: www.micronas.com. Retrieved December 29, 2016 .
- ↑ TDK Completes Acquisition of InvenSense. In: InvenSense website. Retrieved July 25, 2017 .
- ↑ heise.de: TDK gives up production of CDs and DVDs (March 9, 2006)