The company has 34 manufacturing plants and 62 offices in 21 countries.[6] KYB's American aftermarket distribution of automotive shocks and struts is headquartered inGreenwood, Indiana, with additional KYB manufacturing and distribution facilities in metroChicago,Southern California, and metroIndianapolis.[7] 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.
used in construction machinery, industrial vehicles, agricultural machinery, railroad equipment, industrial machinery, building equipment, civil engineering equipment and stage equipment
After the war, in 1954, the company built agyrodyne, namedKayaba Heliplane. The development of this aircraft started in 1952 when Shiro Kayaba, the founder of the company, obtained the fuselage of aCessna 170B and, over the course of two years, turned it into aconvertiplane.[8]
In October, 2018, Kayaba Industry said it had falsified data on the quality of some of its shock absorbers which were used in over 70 government and municipal office buildings includingTokyo Sky Tree,Tokyo Station and facilities for2020 Summer Olympics since at least 2003 in Japan. In addition, all the faulty Japanese quake absorbers were only exported toTaiwan.[9][10]
US$ 3.42 billion (FY 2013) (JPY 352.71 billion) (FY 2013)
