KYB Corporation

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KYB Corporation
Company type Public KK
TYO: 7242
Industry Automotive
Founded(November 19, 1919;104 years ago (1919-11-19))
FounderShiro Kayaba
Headquarters World 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
RevenueIncrease2.svg US$ 3.42 billion (FY 2013) (JPY 352.71 billion) (FY 2013)
Increase2.svg US$ 123.89 million (FY 2013) (JPY 12.76 billion) (FY 2013)
Number of employees
14,754 (consolidated, as of March 31, 2018)
Website Official 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]

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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

  • Shock absorbers
  • Semi-active air suspensions
  • Adjustable shock absorbers
  • Power steering systems
  • Electric power steering units (EPS)
  • Four-wheel steering (4WS) electric actuator
  • Solenoid
  • Sensors
  • Noise resistant pressure sensors

Motorcycle components

  • Suspensions
  • Shock absorbers for ATVs
  • Shock absorbers for snowmobiles

Hydraulic components

Testers

  • High precision leak tester
  • Portable fatigue testers
  • Gate type fatigue testers
  • Torsional fatigue testers
  • Internal pressure fatigue testers
  • Shock absorbers testers
  • Noise check systems
  • Road simulators for automobiles
  • Road simulators for motorcycles
  • Simulators for research and training

Aeronautical, special-purpose vehicles and marine products

Environment, welfare and disaster prevention products

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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]

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