Kyocera Corp.

Kyocera Corporation, through its subsidiaries, manufactures and distributes fine ceramic components, electronics devices, and equipment to individuals, corporations, and governments and governmental agencies worldwide. Its Fine Ceramic Parts segment offers information and telecommunication components, sapphire substrates, components for semiconductor process equipment components, components for liquid crystal display (LCD) manufacturing equipment, automotive components, and general industrial ceramic components.

The company's Semiconductor Parts segment provides ceramic packages for crystal and SAW devices, CCD/CMOS sensor ceramic packages, LSI ceramic packages, wireless and optical communication device packages, and organic multilayer packages and substrates. Its Applied Ceramic Products segment offers residential and industrial solar power generating systems, solar cells/modules, cutting tools, micro drills, medical and dental implants, jewelry, and applied products.

The companys Electronic Device segment provides ceramic and tantalum capacitors, timing devices, surface acoustic wave devices, RF modules, EMI filters, connectors, thermal and inkjet print heads, amorphous silicon photoreceptor drums, and LCDs. Its Telecommunications Equipment segment offers CDMA mobile phone handsets and personal handy phone system related products. The company's Information Equipment segment provides ECOSYS printers, copying machines, and multifunctional peripherals. Its Other segment involves in telecommunications engineering; integration business on information systems and network infrastructures; data center; management consulting; and hotel business, as well as chemical materials for electronic components, electrical insulators, and molded products. The company was formerly known as Kyoto Ceramic Kabushiki Kaisha and changed its name to Kyocera Corporation.