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The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Kayaba Industry page on 10 June 2020, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
KYB Corporation is a Japanese, Tokyo-based automotive company.
Among KYB's main products company are shock absorbers, air suspensions, power steering systems, hydraulic pumps, motors, cylinders, and valves. It is one of the world's largest shock absorber manufacturers and it also has the largest market share of concrete mixer trucks in Japan, with 85% of the market.
The company has 34 manufacturing plants and 62 offices in 21 countries. The American division of KYB corporation is headquartered in Addison, IL. It was established in 1974 and now distributes aftermarket automotive shocks and struts. At the moment, the North American division of KYB employs around 100 full-time employees. Overall, in the United States, there are 3 divisions of KYB. Two of them are in Chicago, IL and one is in California. Shocks and struts for vehicles are the most popular KYB products distributed in North America.
| Date | Article | Author/Source |
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| 16 September 2015 | KYB Agrees to Plead Guilty and Pay $62 Million Criminal Fine for Fixing Price of Shock Absorbers | U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Ohio |
| 10 June 2016 | New at Summit Racing Equipment: KYB Strut-Plus Strut Assemblies | Summit Racing Equipment |