nyse kem industry diversified electronics founded 1919 headquarters simpsonville south carolina united states key people hon. per olof l f chief executive officer and director william m. lowe jr. chief financial officer principal accounting officer philip m. lessner chief technology officer chief marketing officer brian burch chief information officer dec 31 2013 products capacitors & electronic components revenue 836.44 m dec 31 2013 number of employees 9 225 mar 31 2015 website www.kemet.com kemet corporation was set up in 1919 and now is based in simpsonville south carolina . the company produces many kinds of capacitors such as tantalum aluminum multilayer ceramic film paper polymer electrolytic and supercapacitors . capacitors are electronic components that store filter and regulate electrical energy and current flow . as an essential passive component used in most circuit boards capacitors are typically used for coupling decoupling filtering oscillating and wave shaping and are used in communication systems data processing equipment personal computers cellular phones automotive electronic systems defense and aerospace systems consumer electronics power management systems and many other electronic devices and systems basically anything that plugs in or has a battery . the company also manufacturers a variety of electronic components such as ac line filters emi cores and filters flex suppressors relays metal composite inductors ferrite products and transformers magnetics . the product line consists of nearly 5 million distinct part configurations distinguished by various attributes such as dielectric or insulating material configuration encapsulation capacitance at various tolerances voltage performance characteristics and packaging . contents 1 history 2 products and services 3 research and development 4 awards 5 references 6 external links history edit in 1919 kemet corporation was founded as a business of union carbide corporation to manufacture component parts for vacuum tubes . in 1958 kemet changed its market focus to tantalum capacitor . in 1969 the company entered the market of ceramic capacitors . in 1990 kemet electronics corporation was acquired from union carbide and after two years the company went public on the new york stock exchange under the symbol kem . in its long developing history kemet acquired the tantalum business unit of epcos ag in 2007 evox rifa group oyj and arcotronics italia s.p.a. in 2008 cornell dubilier foil llc and niotan incorporated in 2012 . 1 in 2012 the company completed the acquisition of cornell dubilier foil llc and niotan incorporated . 2 products and services edit tantalum business group focuses on tantalum and aluminum capacitors for computing telecommunications medical military automotive and many other industries . ceramic business group focuses on multilayer ceramic capacitors . film and electrolytic business group focuses on film paper and wet aluminum electrolytic capacitors . in addition it also provides power film capacitors for alternative energy products like hybrid electric drive vehicles . 3 research and development edit in january 2014 kemet introduced the high voltage high temperature hv ht series in c0g dielectric improving the efficiency over competitive high temperature 200 degree precious metal electrode pme and base metal electrode bme ceramic capacitor devices . 4 oct. 2013 kemet announced the opening of the new aluminum electrolytic innovation center eic in weymouth u.k. products made from this new center include 20 g high vibration screw terminal capacitors and a low inductance product line under film and electrolytic business . 5 in fiscal year 2015 kemet had 33 phd scientists of which 17 were focused on technology and 501 engineers about one half of which are in manufacturing and the other half in r & d . kemet was granted a record number of 20 u.s. patents in fiscal year 2015 . awards edit in june 2013 kemet won the supplier excellence award for the americas asia and europe by tti . 6 in 2015 kemet received the global operations excellence award from tti . 7 references edit kemet company history . business summary . company full description . kemet introduces new ceramic high voltage high temperature capacitors . kemet opens new uk electrolytic innovation centre . kemet receives three supplier excellence awards from tti . kemet receives global operations excellence award from tti . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title kemet corporation & oldid 685815504 categories companies established in 1919publicly traded companies of the united statescompanies listed on the new york stock exchangemanufacturing companies based in north carolinaelectronics companies of the united stateshidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit 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