Nippon Chemi-Con

{{Short description|Japanese electronics corporation}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2023}}

{{Infobox company

|name = Nippon Chemi-Con Corporation

|native_name = 日本ケミコン株式会社

|native_name_lang = ja

|logo = CHEMI-CON logo Blue.svg

|logo_caption = CHEMI-CON logo

|logo_size = 270px

|type = Public KK

|traded_as = {{TYO|6997}}

|ISIN = {{ISIN|sl=n|pl=y|JP3701200002}}

|foundation = as Satoh Denki Kogyosho ({{Start date and age|1931|08}})

|founder = Toshio Satoh

|hq_location = Osaki, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-8605

|hq_location_country = Japan
{{Coord|35.622599|139.724300|type:landmark_region:JP|display=title,inline}}

|area_served = Worldwide

|key_people = Norio Kamiyama
(President and CEO)

|industry = Electronics

|products = {{unbulleted list|Capacitors|Precision mechanical components|Electronic components}}

| revenue = {{Increase}} {{yen|161,881 million|link=yes}} (2023)

| operating_income = {{Increase}} {{yen|12,940 million}} (2023)

| net_income = {{Increase}} {{yen|2,273 million}} (2023)

| assets = {{Increase}} {{yen|162,741 million}} (2023)

| equity = {{Increase}} {{yen|50,257 million}} (2023)

|num_employees = 6,045 (consolidated, as of March 31, 2023)

|homepage = {{Official website|https://www.chemi-con.co.jp/en/}}

|footnotes = {{cite web |url=https://www.chemi-con.co.jp/en/company/about/outline/ |title=Company Profile |publisher=Nippon Chemi-Con |access-date=May 20, 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://asia.nikkei.com/Companies/Nippon-Chemi-Con-Corp|title=Company Profile |work=Nikkei Asia |publisher=Nikkei, Inc. |access-date=May 20, 2023}}}}

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{{Nihongo|Nippon Chemi-Con Corporation|日本ケミコン株式会社|Nippon Kemikon Kabushiki-gaisha}} is a Japanese corporation that produces capacitors and other discrete electronic components.

Nippon Chemi-Con was founded in 1931 by Toshio Satoh in Japan.{{cite web |url=https://www.chemi-con.co.jp/en/company/about/history/ |title=History of Nippon Chemi-Con |publisher=Nippon Chemi-Con |access-date=September 23, 2021}}

Price fixing

On March 22, 2018, the European Union fined Nippon Chemi-Con €98 million for historical price fixing, alongside other companies including Nichicon and Rubycon.{{cite news|last1=JiJi|title=EU fines Japanese firms over price-fixing cartel for capacitors|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/22/business/eu-fines-japanese-firms-price-fixing-cartel-capacitors|access-date=September 23, 2021|work=The Japan Times Online|publisher=The Japan Times|date=22 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613084713if_/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/22/business/eu-fines-japanese-firms-price-fixing-cartel-capacitors/|archive-date=13 June 2018|url-status=dead}}

Subsidiaries

Nippon Chemi-Con has two wholly owned subsidiaries: United Chemi-Con (in the United States) and Europe Chemi-Con (in Germany).{{cite web |author1=Europe Chemi-Con (Deutschland) GmbH |title=About us|url=https://www.europechemicon.de/en/ueber-uns/|website=Europe Chemi-Con|publisher=Europe Chemi-Con (Deutschland) GmbH|access-date=September 23, 2021|quote=Europe Chemi-Con (Deutschland) GmbH, located in Nuremberg, Germany, is the European subsidiary company of the Japan-based Nippon Chemi-Con Corp.}}

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