KYOCERA Fineceramics Europe GmbH wins supplier excellence award from EV Group (EVG)

Award recognizes KYOCERA Fineceramics Europe GmbH’s performance in areas such as quality, service, and lead time.

From left to right: Herbert Tiefenböck, Corporate Operations Director EVG, Dr Werner Thallner, Executive Operations & Financial Director EVG, Dr Carsten Rußner, President KYOCERA Fineceramics Europe GmbH, Dr Florian Arzberger, Managing Director KYOCERA Fineceramics GmbH Selb

Mannheim/St. Florian, 18th June 2024. KYOCERA Fineceramics Europe GmbH (KFEG), a sub-sidiary of KYOCERA Europe GmbH, announced that it has received a Supplier Excellence Award from EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology, and semiconductor markets.

EVG cited KYOCERA Fineceramics Europe GmbH’s strong performance in areas such as quality, service, and lead time as key reasons for recognizing the company with this award. According to EVG, the company’s outstanding efforts were important in furthering EVG’s ability to support its commitment to customers.

Dr Werner Thallner, CEO of EVG, presented the award at the company's headquarters in St. Florian when a delegation of Kyocera visited the Austria-based supplier of equipment and pro-cess solutions for the semiconductor industry. The delegation was led by KYOCERA Fineceram-ics Europe GmbH’s President Dr Carsten Russner and Dr Florian Arzberger, Managing Director of the Kyocera plant in Selb. Dr Russner is delighted with the honour and praised the commitment of the employees and the good cooperation with EVG:

“We are proud to have received this award from EVG, with whom we work in a spirit of partnership and trust. This award underlines Kyocera's quality awareness and customer focus and recog-nizes the great work that our employees do every day. However, it is also the employees of EVG who contribute to the good co-operation. We are delighted about the award and look forward to many exciting future projects with EVG.”

About Kyocera
KYOCERA Fineceramics Europe GmbH is a subsidiary of KYOCERA Europe GmbH, which has been successful in Europe for over 50 years. The Kyocera Group is one of the world's leading providers of high-performance ceramic components for the technology industry, offering over 200 different ceramic materials, as well as state-of-the-art technologies and services tailored to the specific needs of each market.

KYOCERA Europe GmbH is a company of the KYOCERA Corporation headquartered in Kyoto/Japan, a world leader in semiconduc-tor, industrial and automotive components as well as electronic components, printing and multifunction systems, and communications technology. The technology group is one of the world’s most experienced manufacturers of smart energy systems, with more than 45 years of industry expertise. The Kyocera Group comprises 292 subsidiaries (31 March 2024). In England, Kyocera has a subsidiary in Frimley, KYOCERA Fineceramics Ltd. With around 79,200 employees, Kyocera generated net annual sales of around EUR 12.29 billion in the 2023/2024 fiscal year.

Kyocera is ranked 672 on Forbes magazine’s ‘Global 2000’ list for 2023, and ranked as ‘The 100 Most Sustainably Managed Com-panies in the World’ according to the Wall Street Journal. For the second year in a row, Kyocera qualified for the Dow Jones Sustain-ability Index (Asia-Pacific). As well, Kyocera receives a Gold rating on EcoVadis Sustainability Survey for the second consecutive year and was acknowledged as a ‘Top 100 Global Innovator 2023’, being one of the world’s leading innovators, for the eighth time by Clarivate.

The company also takes an active interest in cultural affairs. The Kyoto Prize, a prominent international award, is presented each year by the Inamori Foundation — established by Kyocera founder Dr Kazuo Inamori — to individuals worldwide who have contributed significantly to the scientific, cultural, and spiritual betterment of humankind (equivalent to approximately €596,500 per prize category).

For more information on Kyocera: uk.kyocera.com

Contact
KYOCERA Fineceramics Ltd.
Allan Martin
General Manager
Prospect House, Archipelago,
Lyon Way, Frimley, Surrey.
GU16 7ER United Kingdom
Tel: +44 1276 693450
E-mail: PR@kyocera.de
uk.kyocera.com

About EV Group (EVG)
EV Group (EVG) is a leading supplier of equipment and process solutions for the manufacture of sem-iconductors, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), compound semiconductors, power devices and nanotechnology devices. Key products include wafer bonding, thin-wafer processing, lithogra-phy/nanoimprint lithography (NIL) and metrology equipment, as well as photoresist coaters, cleaners, and inspection systems. Founded in 1980, EV Group services and supports an elaborate network of global customers and partners all over the world. More information about EVG is available at www.EVGroup.com.