Nidec Corporation
Company Profile
Business Overview
-Has world’s top market share of both brushless DC motors and motors for automotive power steering, according to the Company’s data.
-Its products are in the following groups: precision small motors; products for automobiles, home appliances, commercial use, and industrial use; and parts for machine devices, electronics, and optics. Its automotive products include automotive motors (electric power-steering motors, brake motors) in-vehicle cameras, control valves, electric oil pumps.
-In the fiscal year that ended in March 2022, automotive products accounted for 21.8% of sales.
Shareholders
-Moved to the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market from April 2022 | (As of Mar. 31, 2022) |
Name or Company Name | Investment Ratio (%) |
The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd. (Trust Account) | 13.61 |
Individual shareholder | 8.51 |
Custody Bank of Japan, Ltd. (Trust Account) | 4.53 |
Bank of Kyoto, Ltd. | 4.27 |
S.N. Kosan | 3.48 |
SSBTC CLIENT OMNIBUS ACCOUNT | 2.85 |
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON 140042 | 2.57 |
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. | 2.55 |
Nippon Life Insurance Company | 2.26 |
Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company | 2.20 |
Total | 46.88 |
Products
Nidec
Motors
- For electric power steering systems (EPS)
- For engine cooling
- For seat adjusters
- For brakes (ESP/ABS)
- For traction motors
- Switched reluctance motor
- DCT motors
E-Axle
-In-wheel motor
NIDEC Motors & Actuators (Germany) GmbH
Motors
Actuators
Nidec Tosok
-Control valves for CVTs and ATs
-Stepping motors
-Solenoid valves
-Spool valves
-Harness modules
-Electric oil-pumps
Nidec GPM
-Conventional water pumps
-Adjustable water pumps
-Electrical water pumps
-Conventional oil pumps
-Adjustable oil pumps
-Electrical oil pumps
-Modules
-Transmission oil pumps
-Electrical vacuum pumps
Nidec Sankyo
-Stepping motors
-Relays
-Ultra wide angle lens units
-Wide Angle Lenses
-Super-Wide Angle lenses
-Precision Plastic Parts
-Resin Molded Parts
-Surround view camera lens units
-Head-up display mirror drive unit
-Throttle actuator
-Suspension actuator
Nidec Elesys
-Electric power steering units (EPS)
-Vehicle stability assist systems (VSA)
-Electric parking brake units (EPB)
-Electric servo brake units (ESB)
-Antilock brake systems (ABS)
-Active dumper systems (ADS)
-Parking assist units (PA)
-Lane keep assist systems (LKAS)
-76GHz-band millimetric wave radar units
-Electric pre tensioner units
-Collision mitigation brake systems (CMBS)
-Occupant detection systems (ODS)
-New sensor fusion
-Traction inverter
Nidec Mobility
-3D-LiDAR
-Driver monitoring sensor
-Body control module (BCM)
-Power window switch (PWS) with an anti-pinching function
-Security entry products
-Electric power steering unit (EPS)
-DC/DC converter for the idling stop system (ISS)
-DC/DC converter for xEVs
-Push engine start system
-Power window switch
-Fuel pump control module
-Sunbeam autolight sensor with ECU
-Power seat switch and EPB switch
History
July 1973 | Established Nippon Densan Corporation (currently Nidec Corporation) in Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto. |
Aug. 1973 | Started production and sales of small precision AC motors. |
Oct. 1984 | Established the Shiga Plant (currently Nidec Siga Technical Center). |
Nov. 1988 | Listed its stock on the second section of the Osaka Stock Exchange, and the Kyoto Stock Exchange. |
Mar. 1997 | Took a stake in Tosok Corp. |
Dec. 1997 | Established Nidec Tosok (Vietnam) Co., Ltd. |
Sept. 1998 | Listed the stock on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the first section of the Osaka Stock Exchange. |
Sept. 2001 | Listed on the New York Stock Exchange. |
May 2003 | Relocated its Head Office and opened the Central Technical Laboratory. |
Oct. 2003 | Took a stake in Sankyo Seiki Mfg. Co., Ltd. (currently Nidec Sankyo Corporation) |
Feb. 2006 | Established Nidec Automobile Motor (Zhejiang) Corp., a locally-incorporated company in China. |
Dec. 2006 | Established Nidec Motors & Actuators by acquiring the motor and actuator business of Valeo S.A. |
Nov. 2009 | Opened Shiga Technical Center's new main building. |
Sep. 2010 | Established Nidec Motor Corporation by acquiring the Motors & Controls business of Emerson Electric Co., an American company. Established Nidec Motor Holdings Corporation as its holding company. |
Dec. 2010 | Established Nidec India Private Limited as its sales subsidiary in India. |
Apr. 2012 | Established the Nidec Research and Development Center, Singapore in Singapore. |
June 2012 | Established Nidec Research And Development Center. |
Sept. 2012 | Established the Nidec Research and Development Center, Taiwan in Taiwan. |
Oct. 2012 | Nidec Sankyo Corporation acquired Korean manufacturer SCD Co., Ltd. |
Dec. 2012 | Took a stake in Nidec Kaiyu Auto Electric (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd. |
Apr. 2013 | Nidec Corporation establishes Nidec Automotive Motors Americas Corporation in the US to integrate its automotive motor business in the country’s market. |
Jan. 2014 | Nidec Sankyo Corporation purchases Mitsubishi Materials C.M.I. Corporation. (currently Nidec Sankyo CMI Corporation) |
Nidec Research and Development Center, Japan opens its new building in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan. | |
Mar. 2014 | Purchased Honda Elesys Co., Ltd. (Currently Nidec Elesys Corporation) |
Feb. 2015 | Acquired Gerate-und Pumpenbau GmbH Dr. Eugen Schmidt based in Germany (currently Nidec GPM GmbH). |
Jul. 2015 | Acquired China Tex Mechanical & Electrical Engineering Ltd.’s SR motor drive business (Renamed the company to Nidec (Beijing) Drive Technologies Co., Ltd.) |
Sep. 2015 | Nidec Sankyo acquired PT. Nagata Opto Indonesia. |
Oct. 2015 | Opened "Nidec Institute for Industrial Science". |
May 2016 | Withdrew listing on the New York Stock Market. |
Dec. 2016 | Acquired Canton Elevator, Inc. based in the USA. |
Jan. 2017 | Acquired the motor-drive business of Emerson Electric Co. based in the USA; and the electric generator business from the current Nidec Leroy-Somer Holding and Nidec Control Techniques Limited. |
Mar. 2017 | Opened the Headquarters ANNEX Global R&D Center |
Mar. 2017 | Acquired Vamco International, Inc. based in the USA. |
Mar. 2017 | Unified the Group’s corporate brand to Nidec |
Jul. 2017 | Acquired LGB Ellettropompe S.r.l based in Italy. |
Jul. 2017 | Acquired Germany-based Secop Group (currently Nidec Global Appliance Compressor Company) |
Oct. 2017 | Nidec Sankyo acquired the operations of Tokyo Maruzen Industry, Co., Ltd |
Nov. 2017 | Acquired DriveXpert GmbH, a company based in Germany |
Feb. 2018 | Opened a new production engineering wing in Seika, located in the Soraku area of Kyoto Prefecture. |
Apr. 2018 | Acquired Genmark Automation, Inc., a company based in the USA. |
May. 2018 | Established Nidec PSA emotors as a joint venture with PSA of France, to manufacture automotive traction motors. |
Jul. 2018 | Acquired CIMA S.p.A., a company based in Italy. |
Aug. 2018 | Acquired MS-Graessner GmbH & Co. KG, a company based in Germany. |
Nov. 2018 | Completion of tender offer for shares of Chaun-Choung Technology Corp., Taiwan |
Feb. 2019 | Acquired Systeme + Steuerungen GmbH, a company based in Germany. |
Mar. 2019 | Acquired DESCH Antriebstechnik GmbH & Co. KG, a company based in Germany. |
Jul. 2019 | Acquired Embraco, the compressor business of Whirlpool of the USA. |
Oct. 2019 | Established Guangzhou Nidec Automobile Drive System Co., Ltd. in China, a joint venture with Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Ltd., to manufacture automotive traction motors. |
Oct. 2019 | Acquired Omron Automotive Electronics, establishing it as Nidec Mobility Corporation. |
Nov. 2019 | Acquired Roboteq, Inc. of the USA |
Jun. 2020 | Acquired the Delta-type compressor business operations of Secop Austria GmbH |
Aug. 2021 | Took over Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ Machine Tool Co., Ltd., renaming it Nidec Machine Tool Co., Ltd. |
Feb. 2022 | Invested in OKK Co., Ltd. |
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