Profile: Kyocera Corp (6971.T)

KYOCERA CORPORATION develops, produces and distributes a range of products for the information and communications market and environment and energy market worldwide. The Fine Ceramic segment offers semiconductor and liquid crystal manufacturing equipment parts, and information communication parts. The Semiconductor Parts segment offers various ceramic and optical communication packages. The Fine Ceramic Applied Product Related segment offers residential, industrial photovoltaic generations. The Electronic Device segment offers ceramic capacitors, tantalum capacitors and others. The Communication Device segment provides cell-phone units, personal handy phone systems (PHSs). The Information Equipment segment offers monochromes, combined machine, among others. The Others segment provides information communication services and electrical insulations. On April 1, 2013, it transferred the liquid crystal display related business to a wholly owned subsidiary, KYOCERA Display Corporation.