Is Your Phone on Vibrate? That’s Haptics at Work. You’re in a virtual meeting and don’t want your ringtone broadcasted over ZOOM, so you leave your phone on vibrate. Before long, you feel that light buzz from your phone and on your wrist from your…

2020 started off as a year like no other. It began with a mysterious, novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19 and had begun to shut down parts of Asia and was making its way to Europe. Like everyone around the world, the team at Violet Defense was…

By ringing the Bell, KEMET became part of a legacy dating back to the 1870s. The trading floor bells mark the start and the end of the day’s trading. The Opening and Closing Bells have been rung by heads of state, company leaders, celebrities, and…

Suzana Jankuloska When KEMET started in 1919, we were led by a brilliant inventor with a degree in Pharmacy, Hugh S. Cooper. Yet it wasn’t long before Cooper invited engineers onto his team. To this day, KEMET engineers all around the world have a…

At KEMET, we believe in the passion, skills, and engagement of our people. Maybe that’s why so many of our employees have such long tenures with the company. Yet one such employee stands out not only for his longevity, but also as a leader and…

At KEMET, we believe that our people are our greatest asset. Maybe that is why we’re able to attract and retain some of the most talented and dedicated employees around the world. There are a few people for whom KEMET was their first and only job. We…

The 1990s brought many electrifying changes to society. After the rise of personal computing in the 1980s, portable notebooks and laptop computers became the must-have items for students and professionals working on the go. America Online (AOL)…

Innovation is the heart of KEMET. We strive every day to make the world a safer, better and more connected place to live. We also love our customers, and we work everyday to nurture those relationships, even if it means inventing something new to…

We take technology for granted today, each of us effortlessly interacting with computers for hours upon hours throughout the day. Yet less than a century ago, computers as we know them didn’t exist. When they first came into being, KEMET was there.…

When technology and fun come together, great things can happen. Some of the best gaming systems in popular culture over the last decade and some of the most exciting advancements in gaming technology were born of this synergy, and KEMET was there…

KEMET was founded before there was such a thing as the ‘electronics industry,’ back when radio was new, space travel was the stuff of schoolboy fantasy, and the internet would have seemed a madman’s dream. In the first decades of the twentieth…

With over 800 people in attendance, our KEMET manufacturing facility in Indonesia celebrated 100 years of innovation with food, family and fun. Our Batam location opened its doors in 2007 and is dedicated to manufacturing film capacitors. Today, the…

There’s something we like to say at KEMET, a phrase that’s often brought up in conversation across meetings, conferences, and even casual dialogue. “We may not be a household name, but we are in every household.” As we celebrate our centennial year,…

From the moment KEMET was founded in 1919, our employees were inventing new technologies. In fact, it was a patent filed by our founder Hugh S. Cooper that caught the attention of Union Carbide and made KEMET possible. In our early days, we were…

Plato once said, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” KEMET is no stranger to these words, as everything we’ve made and innovated since our early beginnings started out of necessity. From our getters in 1931, which improved radio communication, to…

Whether it is learning words in a third language to better communicate with colleagues around the world, or taking classes towards an MBA, Hilario Barboza Godinez is constantly on the move. KEMET recognizes him as a leader, a team player, and a…

Pictured above (left to right): Don Akery, President TTI Americas; Paul Andrews, TTI Founder and CEO; Bill Lowe, KEMET CEO; and Mike Morton, TTI COO. A message from Mike Morton, Chief Operating Officer of TTI, Inc. In recognition of your amazing…

HUGH S. COOPER (1885 -1971) In the first years of Hugh S. Cooper’s life he witnessed the advent of the railway telegraph, the motion picture camera, the electric trolley, and the high-frequency alternator, which made AM radio possible. It was a time…