Japan/Germany: Kyocera's Acquisition of the Ownership of H.C. Starck Ceramics Complete

摘要

Kyocera Corporation/JP announced that its Germany-based European headquarters, Kyocera Fineceramics GmbH, has acquired 100% of H.C. Starck Ceramics GmbH, European advanced ceramics manufacturing and sales company based in Selb/DE, subsequent to the agreement with H.C. Starck GmbH in February 2019. The regulatory filings have been completed and the approval from administrative authorities has been obtained. H.C. Starck Ceramics, founded in 1985 as Hutschenreuther Technische Keramik, possesses reaction-bonded silicon carbide processing technology - a new technology for Kyocera. The newly acquired company also contributes highly efficient production equipment using cutting-edge technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI).