Rubycon Corporation
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Native name | ルビコン株式会社 |
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| Company type | Private KK |
| Industry | Electronics |
| Founded | (April 28, 1952) |
| Headquarters | Nishi-Minowa, Ina City, Nagano Prefecture 399-4593, Japan |
Key people | Itsuaki Tonouchi (President and CEO) |
| Products | |
| Revenue |  JPY 64 billion (FY 2013)
(US$ 629.4 million) (FY 2013) |
Number of employees | 3,000 (consolidated) |
| Website | www.rubycon.co.jp |
| Footnotes / references [1][2] | |
Rubycon Corporation (ルビコン株式会社, Rubikon Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese electronics company, whose main products are electrolytic capacitors (AECs), film capacitors and power supply units[2] with a wide range of applications including consumer, industrial, power, lighting and automotive.
Founded in 1952 as Nihon Denkai Seisakusho (有限会社日本電解製作所), it changed its name to Shin-Ei Electronics Inc. (信英電子株式会社) in 1960.[3][4] The company was formerly known as Seibu Shin-Ei Inc. and changed the name to Rubycon Corporation in December 1990.[2]
Rubycon holds a significant world market share in the capacitor market and has 11 production sites, 10 in Japan and one in Indonesia. Rubycon appointed Supreme Components International, a Singapore-based electronics distributor as their franchised distributor.[5]
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Five Rubycon capacitors on a motherboard -
A Rubycon made capacitor for a photo flash
References
- ^ "Corporate Overview". Rubycon. Retrieved June 13, 2015.
- ^ a b c "Company Snapshot". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved June 13, 2015.
- ^ http://www.rubycon.co.jp/en/profile/history.html
- ^ http://www.rubycon.co.jp/profile/history.html
- ^ "Rubycon appoints SCI, Singapore as their authorized distributor". Supreme Components International (SCI). May 24, 2010. Retrieved June 13, 2015.
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