Ibiden

Ibiden Co., Ltd. (イビデン株式会社, Ibiden Kabushiki-kaisha) is a Japanese electronics company headquartered in Ogaki, Gifu prefecture that manufactures electronics-related products, such as printed circuit boards and IC packaging. The company also makes ceramics products, including particulate filters for diesel engines, for which it has a 50% market share in Europe.^[3][4]

Ibiden Co., Ltd.

Ibiden headquarters building
Native name	イビデン株式会社
Company type	Public KK
Traded as	TYO: 4062
ISIN	JP3148800000
Industry	Electronics
Founded	November 25, 1912; 113 years ago (1912-11-25) as Ibigawa Electric Power
Founder	Yujiro Tachikawa
Headquarters	Ogaki, Gifu, 503-8604 , Japan
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Hiroki Takenaka (President and CEO)
Products	Printed wiring boards Package substrates Ceramic products Graphite specialty products Fine ceramics
Revenue	JPY 370 billion (FY 2024) (US$ 2.4 billion) (FY 2024)
Net income	¥31 billion (FY 2024) (US$ 210 million) (FY 2024)
Number of employees	14,290 (as of March 31, 2016)
Website	Official website
Footnotes / references [1][2]

Ibiden was founded as an electrical power generation company in 1912.^[5] In the following decades the company diversified its operations and products, from power generation to electric furnace products (between 1917 and 1919), building materials (in 1960), printed circuit board (in 1972) and ceramic fibers (in 1974).^[6]

Today electronic components and ceramics are the company's main products, with customers including Apple Inc., Intel and Groupe PSA (PSA Peugeot Citroën).^[7][5][8]

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  First generation Peugeot DPF manufactured by Ibiden
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  The company's Higashi-Yokoyama power plant
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  Intel Pentium II Tonga CPU on an Ibiden printed wiring board