About Us

"Optimal" ceramic parts for customers.
Bringing new value to the world.

The World Leader in Fine Ceramics

Kyocera was established in 1959 as a small workshop in Kyoto City where 28 young colleagues began producing ceramic insulators for TVs. Initially their goal was to be the No. 1 company on the street, but they had a bigger dream to become the No. 1 Fine Ceramics company (advanced ceramics company) in the world. With a strong will and pioneering spirit, their limitless efforts made this dream come true. Kyocera is now the world leader in Fine Ceramics (advanced ceramics).

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Kyocera by the Numbers
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Technology & Capabilities
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Creating New Value
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Kyocera Quality
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Customer-First

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Kyocera by the Numbers

Kyocera is a corporate group that diversifies and develops Fine Ceramic parts, electronic parts, machine tools, smartphones, multi-function machines, etc.
In addition to our wide range of businesses, we are able to meet the various needs of our customers based on our strong financial position.

Net Sales

$13 Billion +

*As of March 31, 2024

Consolidated Sales by Region

Since its foundation, Kyocera has consistently maintained a profitable business and has expanded into a global enterprise with annual sales of more than $13 billion.
Employees

79,185 people

*As of March 31, 2024
*Excluding equity method affiliates/related companies for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024

Founded in 1959, Kyocera started with just 28 employees. Now, after half a century, we have more than 79,000 employees worldwide.
Kyocera Group Companies

293 companies

*As of March 31, 2024

By demonstrating the synergy effect of the Kyocera Group, we will provide new value to customers around the world.

Kyocera started with only 28 employees

At the age of 27, with a belief in his own engineering expertise, Kazuo Inamori founded Kyoto Ceramics (now Kyocera Corporation) in April 1959 along with seven other colleagues. With another 20 new college graduates, Kyocera started out with just 28 employees. They focused on producing the "U-shaped Kelcima," a component for television picture tubes, by utilizing the Fine Ceramics engineering technology developed by Inamori. Kyocera established production for 200,000 units per month even though employees and equipment were limited. At the time, the majority of ceramic parts for electric components were made overseas, but whenever asked, "Can you make this type of product?" Kyocera immediately responded, "Please leave it to us." Kyocera made its first steps by accepting jobs that others would not or could not pursue.

Become a creative company that continues to grow

Soon after its founding, Kyocera laid out its management rationale, "To provide opportunities for the material and intellectual growth of all our employees, and through our joint efforts, contribute to the advancement of society and humankind." Today, Kyocera has grown into a global enterprise with more than 79,000 employees, and more than one trillion yen in annual consolidated sales. Kyocera aims to become "The Company" — an enterprise which people all over the world would name first as the company that contributes most to the advancement of society. Kyocera can achieve this goal by continuing to grow through the practice of the Kyocera Philosophy, possessing a strong sense of duty, and fearlessly pursuing new possibilities.

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Technology & Capabilities

We meet your requests with our high-level expertise, wide-ranging technical capabilities and dependable production capacity

For over 65 years, we have accumulated a depth of experience and know-how in our R&D and production divisions and possess an abundance of Core Technologies. Combining these skills, we meet customer requests using new technology and new product development, seamless mass-production capability and strong problem-solving capabilities.

Material Technology

Kyocera provides over 200 types of ceramic materials including oxide, non-oxide and metal composite.
Process Technology

We possess the world's largest sintering kilns and CIP equipment, as well as various forming, machining and bonding technologies.
Design Technology

Utilizing our own HPC server, we can provide various types of analysis including stress, thermal, and vibration.
Measurement/Evaluation Technology

We possess a large variety of precision measurement and inspection equipment, enabling us to offer a wide range of analysis and evaluation services.

New technology and new product development

We are engaged in research and development of materials and their application development. We create new technologies and develop new products with high quality and high reliability. We have production and development bases in Japan, the United States, and Germany, and provide a wide variety of products to the global market.

Solution Technologies
Establishment of mass production lines

Developing process technology and production equipment for establishing highly productive manufacturing lines. We are strengthening cost competitiveness and accumulating manufacturing know-how. We have production bases around the world.

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High problem-solving ability

We have our own analysis center and a large number of precision measurement and inspection equipment. We not only improve the quality of the ceramic parts we provide, but also support customer problem solving and cutting-edge research and development.

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Creating New Value

Continuing to create new value with cutting-edge technology

Kyocera has been contributing to the technological innovation of our customers by providing a wide range of creative ceramic parts to the world.
We will continue to challenge ourselves to create new values.

Semiconductor Processing Equipment Parts

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Kyocera Quality

Quality Management Systems

The Kyocera Group (Japan) holds meetings of the Kyocera CS Improvement Committee, with the President serving as its chairman, on a regular basis to improve customer quality-related indicator, share quality information to prevent quality problems, and prevent the recurrence of quality-related problems.

Quality management systems based on ISO 9001

The company has established quality management systems based on ISO 9001, and each business unit sets its own quality targets and carries out quality improvements towards their achievement. Furthermore, these improvement activities are continuously being upgraded by holding various quality-related training programs. This training is designed to give employees field drills with the help of Kyocera-style tree diagrams and to help them enhance their practical ability to smoothly handle quality related problems.

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Customer-First Principle

Customer-first is a key principle in
Kyocera's philosophy

At Kyocera, we strive to deliver products and services
that delight our customers.
The "customer-first" principle is our top priority.
Through the practice of Amoeba Management
- Kyocera's original management method -
and the Kyocera philosophy,
we listen to our customers with sincerity
in order to more accurately understand their needs.
We will continue to deliver new value to
our customers by applying
the "customer-first" principle.

Development Support

We support what our customers want to achieve
by offering the optimal material and shape for customers' applications
from small-scale prototyping to mass production with advanced technology
and development capabilities based on Kyocera's many years of experience.

Development Support