KYB Corporation


KYB Corporation is a Japanese, Tokyo-based automotive company.
Among KYB's main products company are shock absorbers, air suspensions, power steering systems, hydraulic pumps, motors, cylinders, and valves. It is one of the world's largest shock absorber manufacturers and it also has the largest market share of concrete mixer trucks in Japan, with 85% of the market.
The company has 34 manufacturing plants and 62 offices in 21 countries. KYB's American aftermarket distribution of automotive shocks and struts is headquartered in Greenwood, Indiana, with additional KYB manufacturing and distribution facilities in metro Chicago, Southern California, and metro Indianapolis. KYB Americas employs more than 100 people in all facilities. Shocks and struts for vehicles are the most popular KYB products distributed in North America.

Business segments and products

Automotive and motorcycle products

Automotive components

  • Shock absorbers
  • Semi-active air suspensions
  • Adjustable shock absorbers
  • Power steering systems
  • Electric power steering units
  • Four-wheel steering electric actuator
  • Solenoid
  • Sensors
  • Noise resistant pressure sensors

    Motorcycle components

  • Suspensions
  • Shock absorbers for ATVs
  • Shock absorbers for snowmobiles

    Hydraulic components

  • used in construction machinery, industrial vehicles, agricultural machinery, railroad equipment, industrial machinery, building equipment, civil engineering equipment and stage equipment

    Testers

  • High precision leak tester
  • Portable fatigue testers
  • Gate type fatigue testers
  • Torsional fatigue testers
  • Internal pressure fatigue testers
  • Shock absorbers testers
  • Noise check systems
  • Road simulators for automobiles
  • Road simulators for motorcycles
  • Simulators for research and training

    Aeronautical, special-purpose vehicles and marine products

  • Aircraft components
  • Special-purpose vehicles
  • Marine components

    Environment, welfare and disaster prevention products

  • Self-propelled waste checker conveyors
  • Earthquake simulator trucks
  • Biomixers
  • Chipping vehicle for pruned branches
  • Vehicle for shredding sensitive documents
  • Shock absorbers for chair skis
  • Solar projectors
  • Mobile keeper

Aircraft manufacturing

Aircraft manufacturing during and after [World War II]

The company between 1939 and 1941 developed several gliders, autogyros and research aircraft for the Imperial Japanese Army. These are:
After the war, in 1954, the company built a gyrodyne, named Kayaba Heliplane. The development of this aircraft started in 1952 when Shiro Kayaba, the founder of the company, obtained the fuselage of a Cessna 170B and, over the course of two years, turned it into a convertiplane.

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