The culprit of capacitor price increase has been found! Eight capacitor enterprises are heavily punished by EU for monopolizing price |
Date of issue:2018-03-24 08:49:23 see: |
Margrethe vestager, the EU's antitrust executive, said eight companies colluded with each other to increase their own interests at the expense of consumers in the capacitor market. In addition to Sanyo Electric and its parent company Panasonic, the companies identified as monopolizing the price of capacitors are Hitachi chemical, Rubycon, Elna, NEC tokin, Vishay Polytech, Matsuo, Nichicon and Nippon chemi con of Weishi. Among them, jiameigong was fined 97.9 million euro (about 764 million yuan), with the highest fine, followed by Nichicon with a fine of 72.9 million euro (about 569 million yuan), and calender was fined about 18 million euro (about 140 million yuan). The European executive committee found that from 1998 to 2012, these enterprises conspired to manipulate the capacitor market and exchange commercially sensitive information, including future prices, pricing targets and supply and demand information. They also signed secret pricing agreements. Although the participants are Japanese enterprises, and most of the consultation meetings are held in Japan, the monopoly acts globally. According to Yahoo Finance, as of 8:24 a.m. Taipei time, Camco fell 2.18% and Nichicon fell 1.08%; as of 8:23, Elna fell 0.81% and loose end motor fell 0.30%; as of 8:25, Hitachi chemical fell 0.29%. It is not the first time that Jiamei and other capacitor factories have been punished. In March 2016, the Fair Trade Commission of Japan announced in a press release that five Japanese aluminum electrolytic capacitor / tantalum electrolytic capacitor factories, including Nippon chemi con, were fined a total of 6.697.96 million yen for violating the exclusive prohibition law. Among them, jiameigong fined about 1.435 billion yen, Nichicon about 3.64 billion yen, Rubycon about 1.067 billion yen, Matsuo electric about 427 million yen, NEC tokin of NEC group about 127 million yen. The Fair Trade Commission of Japan pointed out that the above-mentioned capacitor manufacturers held talks under the name of the research association or individually during 2010-2011 to discuss product prices and jointly determine the increase. During the 2008 Lehman storm and 2011 311 strong earthquake, due to the reduction of sales, the above capacitor plants conducted price manipulation and joint monopoly in order to ensure profits. Technology companies should have surpassed their competitors through product innovation, but they should be punished for colluding with prices and finally letting consumers pay for them. World famous capacitor factory USA: AVX, KEMET, skywell, Vishay UK: nover Germany: EPCOS, Wima Denmark: the God of war Japan: Elna, Fujitsu, Hitachi, KOA, Kyocera, Matsushita, Murata, NEC, Nichicon, Nippon chemi con, Japanese chemical industry, Panasonic, Raycon, Rubycon, Sanyo and sunlure Taiyoyden, TDK, TK Korea: SEM, SAMWHA, samyoung Taiwan, China: Walsin, Yageo, capsun, capxon, chocon, choyo, elite, evercon, gemcon, GSC, g-luxon, HEC, hermei, jackcon, jpcon, LELON, ltec and OS T) , Sacon, suscon, taicon, teapo Hong Kong, China: fujicon, Samson China Mainland: Aihua technology, Yuyang technology, torch electronics, Huawei electronics, Jin Fukang, Fenghua hi tech, Nantong Jianghai, ITACAP, Jigang electronics, Yama Limin, Foshan Sanshui Japan Ming electronics, Haifeng Sanli, Haimen three Xin, Shenzhen Xinlong Mao electronics, Yangzhou Shengda, Taiwan Qing, Nantong Tong Fei, Tianyang, Qi FA electronics, etc. |
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