KYB Corporation
Company typePublic KK
TYO: 7242
IndustryAutomotive
Founded(November 19, 1919; 104 years ago (1919-11-19))
FounderShiro Kayaba
HeadquartersWorld Trade Center Building, 4-1, Hamamatsu-cho 2-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-6111, Japan
Key people
Tadahiko Ozawa
(Chairman)
Masao Usui
(President and CEO)
Products
  • Automotive components
  • Hydraulic components
  • Aircraft components
  • Welfare and environmental products
RevenueIncrease US$ 3.42 billion (FY 2013) (JPY 352.71 billion) (FY 2013)
Increase US$ 123.89 million (FY 2013) (JPY 12.76 billion) (FY 2013)
Number of employees
14,754 (consolidated, as of March 31, 2018)
WebsiteOfficial website
Footnotes / references
[1][2]

KYB Corporation (KYB株式会社, KYB kabushiki gaisha, formerly Kayaba Kogyo kabushiki gaisha (カヤバ工業株式会社) until 1 October 2015) is a Japanese, Tokyo-based automotive company.[3]

Among KYB's main products company are shock absorbers, air suspensions, power steering systems, hydraulic pumps, motors, cylinders, and valves.[4] It is one of the world's largest shock absorber manufacturers and it also has the largest market share of concrete mixer trucks in Japan, with 85% of the market.[5]

The company has 34 manufacturing plants and 62 offices in 21 countries.[6] KYB's American aftermarket distribution of automotive shocks and struts is headquartered in Greenwood, Indiana, with additional KYB manufacturing and distribution facilities in metro Chicago, Southern California, and metro Indianapolis.[7] KYB Americas employs more than 100 people in all facilities. Shocks and struts for vehicles are the most popular KYB products distributed in North America.

Business segments and products

Automotive and motorcycle products

Automotive components

Motorcycle components

Hydraulic components

Testers

Aeronautical, special-purpose vehicles and marine products

Environment, welfare and disaster prevention products

Source

Aircraft manufacturing

Aircraft manufacturing during and after World War II

The company between 1939 and 1941 developed several gliders, autogyros and research aircraft for the Imperial Japanese Army. These are:

After the war, in 1954, the company built a gyrodyne, named Kayaba Heliplane. The development of this aircraft started in 1952 when Shiro Kayaba, the founder of the company, obtained the fuselage of a Cessna 170B and, over the course of two years, turned it into a convertiplane.[8]

Scandal

See also

References

  1. ^ "Corporate Information". KYB Corporation. Archived from the original on February 5, 2015. Retrieved February 5, 2015.
  2. ^ "Company Profile". Nikkei Asian Review. Nikkei Inc. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
  3. ^ "Company Profile". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved February 5, 2015.
  4. ^ "Company Snapshot". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved February 5, 2015.
  5. ^ Vishal Dutta (February 19, 2013). "Japanese MNC KYB Corporation acquires 50% stake in Conmat Systems". The Economic Times. Retrieved February 5, 2015.
  6. ^ "Modernized manufacturing unit of Japanese firm KYB to be opened in November". Vadodara: DeshGujarat. October 7, 2014. Retrieved February 5, 2015.
  7. ^ "KYB in North America". Retrieved November 18, 2020.
  8. ^ "RE-RISING SUN — The Japanese Aircraft Industry Ten Years After VJ-Day". Flight International. London: Reed Business Information. April 1, 1955. p. 411. ISSN 0015-3710.
  9. ^ RYO ASAYAMA (October 20, 2018). "Faulty Japanese quake absorbers were shipped to Taiwan". Nikkei Asian Review.
  10. ^ MAGDALENA OSUMI (October 20, 2018). "KYB names 70 government and municipal office buildings that may be using substandard earthquake shock absorbers". The Japan Times.

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