Futaba Corporation

Futaba Corporation
双葉電子工業株式会社

Type	Public KK
Traded as	TYO: 6986
Industry	Electronics
Founded	Mobara, Japan (February 3, 1948)
Headquarters	Mobara, Chiba Prefecture 297- 8588, Japan
Key people	Hiroshi　Sakurada (President)
Products	OLED displays VFDs Display modules Capacitive Touch panels Radio control equipment Automation equipment Components for press die sets and mold bases
Revenue	JPY 64.35 billion (FY 2013) (US$ 625.24 million) (FY 2013)
Net income	JPY 1.79 billion (FY 2013) (US$ 17.45 million) (FY 2013)
Number of employees	5,179 (consolidated, as of March 31, 2014)
Website	Official website
Footnotes / references [1][2]

Futaba Corporation (双葉電子工業株式会社 Futaba Denshi Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese company founded in 1948, originally to produce vacuum tubes.^[3] As time passed, production and elemental techniques of the vacuum tube transformed into the manufacturing of vacuum fluorescent displays (VFDs), tool and die set components, radio control equipment and OLED displays.^[4]

Company profile

Futaba became one of the first companies of its type to provide comprehensive radio control products, selection and service to hobbyists. Futaba systems and products were quickly accepted and used by serious competitors and casual enthusiasts alike. Futaba products are used in the air, on the water, underwater and on the ground for all types of RC models. Futaba manufactures all components in-house, including tools and manufacturing facilities.^[5]

The brand is distributed in North America by Hobbico of Champaign, Illinois, by Ripmax in the UK, Ireland, Germany and Austria, along with other distributors around the world.^[6]

Bribery in China

Senior manager Takehisa Terada, 68, was convicted in 2013 of bribing government officials in China in 2007^[7] to ignore an irregularity at a subsidiary’s factory in Guangdong Province.^[8]

Gallery

Futaba 4PKSR transmitter with non-standard skins.  A Futaba 2,4GHz 7-channel receiver

References

1. "Company Profile". Futaba Corporation. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
2. "Futaba Corporation — Company info". Japan Die&Mold Industry Association. Retrieved March 30, 2015.
3. "Futaba History". Futaba Corporation. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
4. "Company Snapshot". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
5. "Milacron's D-M-E Forms Global Strategic Alliance with Japan's Futaba". Businesswire. April 24, 2008. Retrieved April 2, 2015 – via Bloomberg L.P.
6. "List of distributors". Futaba Corporation. Retrieved March 30, 2015.
7. "Former Futaba Industrial Executive Arrested for China Bribery". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2015-10-02.
8. "Auto exec fined ¥500,000 over bribes". The Japan Times Online. 2013-10-04. ISSN 0447-5763. Retrieved 2015-10-02.

External links

• Futaba official site (English)