Rubycon Corporation
Japanese electronics company
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Rubycon Corporation (ルビコン株式会社, Rubikon Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese electronics company.
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Native name | ルビコン株式会社 |
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| Company type | Private KK |
| Industry | Electronics |
| Founded | (April 28, 1952) |
| Headquarters | Nishi-Minowa, Ina City, Nagano Prefecture 399-4593, Japan |
Key people | Hiroaki Akahane (President and CEO) |
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| Revenue |  JPY 44.27 billion (FY 2020) |
Number of employees | 2,734 (consolidated) |
| Website | www.rubycon.co.jp |
| Footnotes / references [1][2] | |
History
Founded in 1952 as Nihon Denkai Seisakusho (有限会社日本電解製作所), the company changed its name to Shin-Ei Electronics Inc. (信英電子株式会社) in 1960.[3][4] It was formerly known as Seibu Shin-Ei Inc. and changed its name to Rubycon Corporation in December 1990.[2]
In 2010, Rubycon appointed Supreme Components International, a Singapore-based electronics distributor, as their franchised distributor.[5]
Products
Rubycon's main products are electrolytic capacitors, film capacitors and power supply units[2] with a wide range of applications including consumer, industrial, power, lighting and automotive.[clarification needed]
Rubycon holds[as of?] a significant world market share in the capacitor market,[6] and has 11 production sites – 10 in Japan and one in Indonesia.
Four Rubycon capacitors on a motherboard
A Rubycon made capacitor for a photo flash
