Disco Corporation
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Native name | 株式会社ディスコ |
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| Company type | Public KK |
| TYO: 6146 | |
| ISIN | JP3548600000 |
| Industry | Semiconductor |
| Founded | May 5, 1937 in Kure city, Hiroshima as Dai-Ichi Seitosho Company |
| Founder | Mitsuo Sekiya |
| Headquarters | Omori-Kita, Ōta, Tokyo 162-8557 , Japan |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Hitoshi Mizorogi (Chairman of the Board) Kazuma Sekiya (President and CEO) |
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| Revenue |  JPY ¥253.78 billion(US$ 2.21 billion) (FY 2021) |
| JPY ¥66.21 billion (US$ 576 million) (FY 2021) | |
Number of employees | 4,091 (as of March 31, 2021) |
| Website | Official website |
| Footnotes / references [1][2] | |
DISCO Corporation (株式会社ディスコ, Kabushiki-gaisha Disuko) is a Japanese precision tools maker, especially for the semiconductor production industry.
The company makes dicing saws and laser saws to cut semiconductor silicon wafers and other materials; grinders to process silicon and compound semiconductor wafers to ultra-thin levels; polishing machines to remove the grinding damage layer from the wafer back-side and to increase chip strength.[2]
History
[edit]The company was founded as Daiichi-Seitosho in May 1937, as an industrial abrasive wheel manufacturer.[3]
After World War II Japan faced a construction boom which also helped DISCO to boost its sales. The company's grinder discs were in high demand from utility companies, which needed them to manufacture watt-meters.[4]
In December 1968 the company developed and released an ultra-thin resinoid cutting wheel, Microncut. The wheel contained diamond powder and as a result it was capable of making sharp, precision cuts as demanded in the semiconductor manufacturing process. There were no cutting machines available in the market on which ultra-thin precision wheels could be mounted and run, DISCO decided to develop its own machine in 1975. The cutting machine, DAD-2h, received instant recognition from semiconductor companies, including Texas Instruments.[3]
The company adopted the name of DISCO Corporation in May 1977,[3] was listed with the Japan Securities Dealers' Association in October 1989, and entered the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in December 1999.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ "Corporate Outline". DISCO Corporation. Retrieved September 23, 2017.
- ^ a b "Company Profile". Nikkei Asian Review. Nikkei Inc. Retrieved September 23, 2017.
- ^ a b c Ishikawa, Akira; Nej, Tai (2004). Top Global Companies in Japan. World Scientific. pp. 64–67. ISBN 978-981-238-684-7.
- ^ Nakayama, Wataru; Boulton, William; Pecht (June 25, 1999). The Japanese Electronics Industry. CRC Press. p. 38. ISBN 978-1-58488-026-4.
External links
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- Disco Corporation global website (in English)
- European Website (in English)