Rubycon Corporation

Rubycon Corporation
Native name
 ルビコン株式会社
Private KK
Industry Electronics
Founded (April 28, 1952 (1952-04-28))
Headquarters Nishi-Minowa, Ina City, Nagano Prefecture 399-4593, Japan
Key people
 Itsuaki Tonouchi
(President and CEO)
Products
Revenue

Increase JPY 64 billion (FY 2013)

(US$ 629.4 million) (FY 2013)
Number of employees
 3,000 (consolidated)
Website Official website
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.[5]

Four Rubycon capacitors on a motherboard 
A Rubycon made capacitor for a photo flash 

References

  1. ↑ "Corporate Overview". Rubycon. Retrieved June 13, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 "Company Snapshot". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved June 13, 2015.
  3. ↑ http://www.rubycon.co.jp/en/profile/history.html
  4. ↑ http://www.rubycon.co.jp/profile/history.html
  5. ↑ "Rubycon appoints SCI, Singapore as their authorized distributor". Supreme Components International (SCI). May 24, 2010. Retrieved June 13, 2015.
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