is a Japanese materials and electronics company, situated in Kyobashi, Chuo, Tokyo, that helped pioneer recordable CD technology (

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) along with

Sony , commonly stylized as SONY, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. As a major technology company, it operates as one of the world's largest manufacturers of consumer and professional ...

and

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in 1988. Founded 70 years ago, Taiyo Yuden currently operates factories in

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, the

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, and

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. It was well known for its recordable

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media, which were regarded by many to be the very best in the industry. In June 2015, Taiyo Yuden announced its intention to discontinue its recording media business by December of that year, citing market shrinkage, changing market conditions, difficulty while improving earnings and a hike in the cost of raw materials. The company employs almost twenty thousand people worldwide and reports annual sales of more than $2 billion. The current CEO and President is Shoichi Tosaka. The company is a constituent of the

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History

Taiyo Yuden was established by Hikohachi Sato on March 23, 1950, in Suginami, Tokyo. In January 1973 Taiyo Yuden is listed in the First Section of the

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. The world's first axial leaded ceramic capacitor is developed by company in July 1976. That's branded Audio tape, known as Triad in North America, was introduced to the market in 1982. Since 1985, Taiyo Yuden has annually published Needs & Seeds (Taiyo Yuden Technical Report, ISSN 0911-5439). In October 1988, the world's first CD-R was made by Taiyo Yuden and presented to the public under the brand name That's CD-R. However development had already begun as early as in summer 1985. The underlying organic cyanine dye technology was developed by a team of Taiyo Yuden engineers, Takashi Ishiguro and Emiko Hamada. In 1987, START Lab Inc. was founded as a joint venture between

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and Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. for the CD-R recording media business in

. Taiyo Yuden introduced That's

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CD-R with 1.3 GB storage space in 2000. In April 2003, an

anechoic chamber An anechoic chamber (''an-echoic'' meaning "non-reflective") is a room designed to stop reflections of either sound or electromagnetic waves. They are also often isolated from energy entering from their surroundings. This combination means t ...

test facility was established. Effective March 1, 2006, the power supply factory in

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(formerly Taiyo Yuden de Mexico, originally Zentec Inc) was sold to Tamura Corporation. The acquisition of Shoei Electronics Co., Ltd., formerly a subsidiary of Shoei Co., Ltd., took place March 1, 2007. In October 2008,

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and Taiyo Yuden set up a new joint venture, called Victor Advanced Media. In February of the same year the world's first recordable Blu-ray Disc using an

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dye A dye is a colored substance that chemically bonds to the substrate to which it is being applied. This distinguishes dyes from pigments which do not chemically bind to the material they color. Dye is generally applied in an aqueous solution and ...

recording layer is launched. On June 11, 2015, Taiyo Yuden announced that it will withdraw from the recording media business, including CDs, DVDs, BDs, at the end of 2015. The same day, START Lab Inc. announced that it will discontinue selling optical discs at the end of February 2016.

Products

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modules *

Capacitor A capacitor is a device that stores electrical energy in an electric field by virtue of accumulating electric charges on two close surfaces insulated from each other. It is a passive electronic component with two terminals. The effect of ...

s * CCFL Inverters * Ferrite Beads * High Frequency Multilayer Chip Antenna * High Frequency Multilayer Chip Filter * Inductors (multilayer, wire-wound chip, axial/radial leaded) * Power Supplies (now redirected to Tamura Corp.) * Recording media (made by That's Fukushima for START Lab) *

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s * Simulation Tools * Piezoelectric speakers

Recording media

Taiyo Yuden branded products were not common outside Japan (where Taiyo Yuden media had a market share of about 60%) but unbranded CDs and DVDs were available from some online retailers. Rebranded Taiyo Yuden media could be found under Fujifilm, Fusion, Maxell, Miflop,

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Plextor Plextor (styled PLEXTOR) ( zh, 浦科特; ja, プレクスター) is a Taiwanese (formerly Japanese) consumer electronics brand, best known for solid-state drives and optical disc drives. Company The brand name Plextor was used for all products ...

, TDK, and Verbatim Corporation brands. In Japan, Korea and

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, Taiyo Yuden was distributing its own brand "That's". Taiyo Yuden positioned its blank media as a premium product which offered reliability, compatibility and peace of mind; the "Made in Japan" branding for That's media was chosen to symbolise quality differences in a graphic way, as consumers struggled to understand the difference in technology. That's CDR80WTYSBV 20070131

In October 2008 Taiyo Yuden partnered with

to form JVC Advanced Media as a marketing plan to distribute Taiyo Yuden media globally under the JVC brand name. Taiyo Yuden has also developed the Autostrategy technology, a learning mode for DVD burners, for

. In mid-2015, Taiyo Yuden announced its intention to withdraw from the optical media business (including CD-R, DVD-R and BD-R) by December of that year. Taiyo Yuden sold its disc manufacturing patents and equipment to CMC Magnetics, and today the media is manufactured by CMC under the CMC Pro brand.

DVD media codes

DVD media manufactured by Taiyo Yuden have the following media codes:

Companies

The following companies belong to the Taiyo Yuden group:

Japan

* Fukushima Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. at Yanagawa Industrial Estate, Date City, Fukushima Prefecture (formerly That's Fukushima Co., Ltd.), production of metal power inductors (MCOIL™), formerly also production of blank CD, DVD and BD media * Kankyo Assist Co., Ltd.,

polycarbonate Polycarbonates (PC) are a group of thermoplastic polymers containing carbonate groups in their chemical structures. Polycarbonates used in engineering are strong, tough materials, and some grades are optically transparent. They are easily work ...

recycling and environmental services * S.E.T. Co., Ltd. * START Lab Inc. (49.9% joint venture with

), distribution of That's brand optical media * Sun Vertex Co., Ltd., personnel and staffing services * Taiyo Yuden Chemical Technology Co., Ltd., surface treatment of electronic components, production and sales of printing masks and packaging-related tools * Taiyo Yuden Techno Solutions Co., Ltd., EMS (printed circuit board and module assembly) * Wakayama Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd., production of metal power inductors (MCOIL™), wire-wound chip inductors, multilayer chip inductors for high frequency and ferrite chip beads

China (Mainland)

* Dongguan Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. * Taiyo Yuden (Guangdong) Co., Ltd. * Taiyo Yuden (Shanghai) Trading Co., Ltd. * Taiyo Yuden (Tianjin) Electronics Co., Ltd., part of Korea Tong Yang Yujun Co., Ltd.

Europe

* Taiyo Yuden Europe GmbH

Hong Kong

* Hong Kong Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.

Korea

* Korea Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd., production of circuitry products (inverters for LCD panels, battery protection modules for mobile devices, high-density surface mount boards) * Korea Tong Yang Yujun Co., Ltd., production of conventional capacitors and inductors * Korea Kyong Nam Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd., production of multilayer capacitors

Malaysia

* Taiyo Yuden (Malaysia) SDN. BHD. * Taiyo Yuden (Sarawak) Sdn. Bhd.

Philippines

* Taiyo Yuden (Philippines) Inc. Established in 1988 and located at the Mactan Export Zone 1 (MEZ1) industrial hub at

Lapu-Lapu City Lapu-Lapu City, officially the City of Lapu-Lapu ( ceb, Dakbayan sa Lapu-Lapu; fil, Lungsod ng Lapu-Lapu), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a populatio ...

Cebu Cebu (; ceb, Sugbo), officially the Province of Cebu ( ceb, Lalawigan sa Sugbo; tl, Lalawigan ng Cebu; hil, Kapuroan sang Sugbo), is a province of the Philippines located in the Central Visayas region, and consists of a main island and 16 ...

. Primarily pioneered the assembly and mass production of inductors for various electronic companies worldwide. * Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. Manila Representative Office

Singapore

* Taiyo Yuden (Singapore) Pte Ltd

Taiwan

* Taiwan Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.

Thailand

* TAIYO YUDEN TRADING (THAILAND) Co., Ltd

U.S.A.

* Taiyo Yuden (U.S.A.) Inc.

References

External links

Taiyo Yuden

Taiyo Yuden North America website
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