Profile: KYOCERA CORPORATION (KYO)

Kyocera Corporation (Kyocera), incorporated in 1959, is engaged in numerous high-tech fields, from fine ceramic components to electronics devices, equipment, services and networks. The Company’s manufacturing and distribution operations are conducted globally. As of March 31, 2009, the Company has 181 subsidiaries and four affiliates outside Japan and 30 subsidiaries and six affiliates in Japan. The Company’s customers include individuals, corporations, governments and governmental agencies. Kyocera’s has seven segments: Fine Ceramic Parts Group, Semiconductor Parts Group, Applied Ceramic Products Group, Electronic Device Group, Telecommunications Equipment Group, Information Equipment Group, and Others. In January 2009, Kyocera Mita Corporation acquired TAAG, a sales company of information equipment in Germany. Its subsidiaries include Kyocera Industrial Ceramics Corporation, Kyocera America, Inc. and Kyocera Solar Corporation.

Fine Ceramic Parts Group

The Company’s products and services in fine ceramic parts group include Information & Telecommunication Components, Sapphire Substrates, Components for Semiconductor Processing Equipment, Components for liquid crystal display (LCD) Manufacturing Equipment, Automotive Components, and General Industrial Ceramic Components. The products are used in the computing, telecommunications, automotive and various other industrial sectors. It is made from a variety of ceramic materials, such as, silicon carbide, silicon nitrides, zirconia, and alumina. Products developed, manufactured and sold include substrates, which are thin ceramic bases used by manufacturers for hybrid integrated circuit (IC) foundations. It also develops substrates for thermal printheads, thin film ceramic/alumina tape substrates for chip resistors, substrate for hard disk drive (HDD) thin film magnetic heads, sapphire substrates for LCD projectors and light emitting diode (LED), components for semiconductor processing equipment, components for LCD manufacturing equipment, mechanical seals for pumps, engine components for the automobile industry, friction tight discs and thread guides for yarn texturing machines in the textile industry, rings for fishing rods, nozzles and parts for papermaking machinery.

Semiconductor Parts Group

The Company develops, manufactures and sells inorganic (ceramic) and organic packages in semiconductor parts group. The products and services include Ceramic Packages for Crystal and SAW Devices, CCD/CMOS Sensor Ceramic Packages, LSI Ceramic Packages, Wireless Communication Device Packages, Optical Communication Device Packages and Components and Organic Multilayer Packages and Substrates. Ceramic packages for crystal and SAW devices are used for SAW filters and temperature compensated crystal oscillators (TCXO), which are inserted into mobile phone handsets. CCD/CMOS sensorceramic packages are mainly used in camera-equipped mobile phone handsets and digital still cameras. Ball grid array packages are used in MPUs and other logic ICs, which are mainly inserted into high-end servers. In the organic package business, Kyocera established a high density organic circuit board manufacturer, Kyocera SLC Technologies Corporation. Kyocera SLC Technologies Corporation develops, manufactures and sells system in a package (SiP) substrates used in mobile phone handsets and organic flip-chip packages for high-end application specific integrated circuits (ASIC).

Applied Ceramic Products Group

Applied Ceramic Products Group consists of four product lines: Solar Energy Products, Cutting Tools, Medical and Dental Implants and Jewelry and Applied Ceramic Related Products. Kyocera develops and manufactures solar cells and modules, applied solar cell products and residential and industrial solar power generating systems. It develops and manufactures cutting tools for metal processing in industrial production, particularly in the automotive industry. Kyocera established Japan Medical Materials Corporation with Kobe Steel, Ltd. by integrating the medical material businesses in September 2004. It produces a range of products, such as, dental implants, artificial bone and joint prosthesis, artificial knee joint replacement systems, and ceramic materials helping heal hip fractures by combinations of material, processing technologies of ceramics and titanium alloys and integrating business resources. The Company’s recrystallized jewelry comprises mainly synthetic emeralds, alexandrines and rubies. These stones are manufactured using a single crystal growth technology and are chemically and physically equivalent to natural stones. Kyocera also develops, produces and sells applied ceramic related products, such as, kitchen knives utilizing ceramic characteristics of wear resistance and corrosion resistance against acidity and alkalinity.

Electronic Device Group

Kyocera develops, manufactures and sells electronic components and devices for the information and communication market. This field creates miniaturization, low voltage, high frequency and low energy consumption, and the Company develops, manufactures and sells products, such as, miniature ceramic capacitors with high capacitance, tantalum capacitors, miniature timing devices like TCXOs, RF modules and connectors for mobile phone handsets and personal computer (PC). It also develops and manufactures thin-film products, such as, thermal printheads, amorphous silicon photoreceptor drums and LCDs for consumer electronic equipment, office automation equipment and industrial equipment.

Telecommunications Equipment Group

Telecommunications Equipment Group includes code division multiple access (CDMA) mobile phone handsets business and telecommunication system equipment business such as personal handyphone system (PHS) mobile phone handsets and base stations. These products are produced and distributed mainly for KDDI Corporation and WILLCOM, Inc., as well as, for other United States telecommunication service providers.

Information Equipment Group

Information Equipment Group’s products comprises of page printers, copying machines and multifunctional peripherals. Its page printers are marketed under the name of ECOSYS with a focus on the concepts of long life cycle, ecology and economy, which use the Company’s amorphous silicon photoreceptor drums.

Others

The Other Group includes revenues from telecommunication network systems. This segment also develops, manufactures and sells electronic component materials, electric insulators and synthetic resin molded products. In addition, Kyocera Communication Systems Co., Ltd. provides data center services for mobile phone content distribution services and information technology (IT) solutions services for business users by developing new products featuring network services, as well as, system integration services. It also operates management consulting business based on operating of Amoeba Management System, which is Kyocera’s management method.