Type Public KK Industry Automotive Founded 1919 Number of employees 13,033 | Traded as TYO: 7242 Founder Shiro Kayaba Headquarters Minato | |
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Key people Tadahiko Ozawa
(Chairman)
Masao Usui
(President and CEO) Products Automotive components
Hydraulic components
Aircraft components
Welfare and environmental products Revenue US$ 3.42 billion (FY 2013)
(JPY 352.71 billion) (FY 2013) Profiles | ||
Kyb overview 2016
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.
Contents
- Kyb overview 2016
- About kyb
- Automotive components
- Motorcycle components
- Hydraulic components
- Testers
- Aeronautical special purpose vehicles and marine products
- Environment welfare and disaster prevention products
- Aircraft manufacturing during and after World War II
- References
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.
About kyb
Automotive components
Motorcycle components
Hydraulic components
Testers
Aeronautical, special-purpose vehicles and marine products
Environment, welfare and disaster prevention products
Source
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, during the following two years, turned it into a convertiplane.