In April 1959, Kyocera established its headquarters and factory in 101 Keihara, Nishinoichi, Nakyo District, Kyodo City, Japan, and started its business as a professional manufacturer of precision ceramics -- Kyoto Ceramics Co., LTD. In March 1972, he was awarded the 18th Grand Hanoi Commemorative Production Special Award for "THE development of ceramic Multilayer packaging for large-scale integrated circuits". In April 1974, "THE DEVELOPMENT OF CERAMIC LAYER TECHNOLOGY FOR ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT" won the 16th Japanese Science and Technology Agency OFFICIAL AWARD. In April 2004, Kyocera merged its organic material parts business with KyoceraSLC Technology Co., LTD. In August 2006, Shanghai Kyocera Trading Co., LTD was established in China. Kyocera ranked 552nd on the 2015 Forbes 2000 list of Global Companies with sales of $14 billion, profits of $882 million, assets of $24.8 billion and market capitalization of $20.9 billion. Kyocera has a wide range of applications and markets in semiconductor components, electronic components, automotive components, precision ceramic components, connectors and other fields. It has a large proportion in LED ceramic packaging, sensor parts, vehicle ceramic substrate and so on.