Keyence History

Why is KEYENCE Unique?

As a leading supplier of factory automation sensors, measuring instruments and digital microscopes, KEYENCE develops and manufactures innovative and reliable products that meet customer requirements in every manufacturing industry and research field. In addition to its high quality products and quick response time to customer requests, KEYENCE offers a full range of services provided by its technically-trained sales force - everything from application problem solving to comprehensive sales support - to help customers achieve their goal of becoming leaders in their respective industries

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Facts

Global Headquarters: Osaka, Japan
Founded: May 1974
Capital: 30,637 million yen
2011 Global Sales: $2,281,506,000 USD
Worldwide Employees: 3,151

An Exceptional Company

KEYENCE has been named one of Business Week's "1000 Best Valued Companies" and consistently ranked ahead of companies such as Sony and Honda Motors in Japan's Nikkei, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Newspaper's ranking of the "Top Ten Excellent Companies in Japan."

Newsweek Electronics Industry Ranking

Nikkei Newspaper

  • - Maintains its ranking in top 30(for 20 years)
  • - Ranked 1st twice(1995,1996)
  • - Ranked in the top 10 from 2005 to 2008

Recent Top 10

CLEAN Energy Policy

KEYENCE recognizes that protecting our environment is of paramount importance to the whole planet. We strive to make our contribution to the protection and improvement of the global environment through our value added solutions which enable a wide range of industries to produce goods efficiently with little waste and minimize the impact to the environment.

RoHS

Since April 2005 KEYENCE has been progressively eliminating hazardous substances from our products and implementing the switch to RoHS compliant products.

WEEE

KEYENCE's recycling scheme is based on the WEEE directive.

History

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