KYB Corporation
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| Traded as | : |
| Industry | Automotive |
| Founded | (November 19, 1919) |
| Founder | Shiro Kayaba |
| Headquarters | World Trade Center Building, 4-1, Hamamatsu-cho 2-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-6111, Japan |
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Key people
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Tadahiko Ozawa (Chairman) Masao Usui (President and CEO) |
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| Revenue | (JPY 352.71 billion) (FY 2013) |
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Number of employees
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13,033 (consolidated, as of March 31, 2014) |
| Website | Official website |
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Footnotes / references |
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US$ 123.89 million (FY 2013)
Kayaba Industry Co., Ltd. (カヤバ工業株式会社 Kayaba Kogyo Kabushiki-gaisha) (known also by its popular name KYB Corporation) is a Japanese, Tokyo-based automotive company.
The company's main products include shock absorbers, air suspensions, power steering systems, hydraulic pumps, motors, cylinders, and valves. It is one of the world's largest shock absorber manufacturer and it also has the largest market share of concrete mixer trucks in Japan with 85% of the market.
The company has 34 manufacturing plants and 62 offices in 21 countries.
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, during the following two years, turned it into a convertiplane.
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