Rubycon Corporation (ルビコン株式会社, Rubikon Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese electronics company, whose main products are electrolytic capacitors, film capacitors and power supply units[2] with a wide range of applications including consumer, industrial, power, lighting and automotive.

Founded in 1952 as Nihon Denkai Seisakusho (有限会社日本電解製作所), it changed its name to Shin-Ei Electronics Inc. (信英電子株式会社) in 1960.[3][4] The company was formerly known as Seibu Shin-Ei Inc. and changed its name to Rubycon Corporation in December 1990.[2]

Rubycon holds a significant world market share in the capacitor market,[5] and has 11 production sites – 10 in Japan and one in Indonesia. Rubycon appointed Supreme Components International, a Singapore-based electronics distributor, as their franchised distributor.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Corporate Overview". Rubycon. Retrieved June 13, 2015.
  2. ^ a b c "Company Snapshot". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved September 23, 2021.
  3. ^ "About Rubycon : History/Hybrid, Capacitor, Power Supply Units RUBYCON CORPORATION".
  4. ^ "ルビコンについて：会社沿革／ハイブリッド、コンデンサ、キャパシタのルビコン株式会社". (in Japanese)
  5. ^ "Electronic Component Distributor - Rubycon". AO-Electronics. Retrieved February 18, 2024.
  6. ^ "Rubycon appoints SCI, Singapore as their authorized distributor". Supreme Components International (SCI). May 24, 2010. Archived from the original on April 10, 2016. Retrieved September 23, 2021.

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