Kyocera is one of the world's largest vertically-integrated producers and suppliers of solar energy products. Our American solar division is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, with regional sales affiliates in the Americas and Australia.

Kyocera Solar, Inc. (KSI), our North American solar products subsidiary, serves thousands of customers in both the developed and developing worlds.

Around the globe people are enjoying a better lifestyle because of solar electric systems provided by Kyocera. These systems make it possible for families to light their homes and utilize a telephone or experience a broadcast program for the first time. Solar electric solutions provided by Kyocera enable people to drink clean, uncontaminated water where sources were unsanitary, hard to access, or nonexistent. Systems designed and integrated by Kyocera allow industry to expand their capabilities beyond the constraints of the traditional electric grid.

Kyocera Solar, Inc. serves the widely varying needs of customers for distributed solar electricity through two major market channels. Industrial customers, such as original equipment manufacturers, government organizations, utilities, corporate clients and institutions, are served directly with fully integrated system packages. KSI also serves a global network of Authorized Distributors and Dealers with components, packaged systems, engineering, technical support, project management, sales aids and literature.

Kyocera Solar, Inc. is staffed by the most experienced and talented engineers, technical support, and sales personnel within the solar electric industry. The Company's expertise is based upon designing, manufacturing, and installing the most technologically advanced solar electric power systems available today. With thousands of successful installations worldwide, Kyocera continues to be the leader in the solar electric industry.

About Kyocera Corporation
Kyocera Corporation, the headquarters and parent company of the global Kyocera group, was founded in 1959 in Kyoto, Japan as a start-up venture by Dr. Kazuo Inamori and seven colleagues. Kyocera's founders shared a vision of creating a company dedicated to the successful manufacture and sale of innovative, high-quality products based on advanced materials and components. Over the past four decades, this vision has resulted in a highly successful and widely diversified global enterprise. Kyocera's North American operations have contributed strongly to the company's overall success. We established our first North American sales company in 1969, a two-person operation serving Silicon Valley's burgeoning semiconductor industry and other high-tech markets throughout the United States. Our North American operations have since expanded to more than 5,000 employees engaged in the manufacture and sale of a broad range of state-of-the-art, high-technology products in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

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