Archive – KEMET 100 Years

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DISCOVER WHAT’S INSIDE

100 Years
of KEMET

Our story is a culmination of 100 years of progress and innovation. The images in our archives help give context to that story from the very beginning. Take a visual journey through our history, from 1919 to today.

1907-1938

Archive image — Hugh S. Cooper’s garage laboratory in Cleveland

Archive image — KEMET Founder Hugh S. Cooper

Archive image — Sarbey Furnace: Apparatus for determining critical points of wires

Archive image — Research Department, Union Carbide, Niagara Falls, NY, 1938

Archive image — KEMET Headquarters, 1919-1971 National Carbon Company, Lakewood, OH

1907-1938

Archive image — KEMET’s “War Plant” in Lakewood hired extra employees to meet the demand for radio tubes during WWII

Archive image — KEMET Getter Factory Cleveland, 1940s

Archive image — KEMET and Union Carbide employees outside the National Carbon plant, Cleveland, 1935

Archive image — George Furness: a prominent figure in KEMET's early years

Archive image — KEMET personnel and other Union Carbide employees at the National Carbon plant, Cleveland, 1935

Archive image — A Road Not Pursued: KEMET design for an ammonia dissociating system, 1930

Archive image — KEMET design for improved vacuum tube getters, 1936

Archive image — KEMET listed as a division of Union Carbide in a 1945 War Bonds ad

Archive image — 1947 Magazine Advertisement of Vacuum Tubes

Archive image — Getter design, 1930

Archive image — KEMET design for improved vacuum tube getters, 1948

1954-1987

Archive image — KEMET Brochure, circa 1963

Archive image — Cutting ceramic capacitors by hand, circa 1968

Archive image — KEMET Getter Factory Cleveland, 1940s

Archive image — Preston Robinson, Sprague Electric, 1952

Archive image — Dr. C. Robert Castor led KEMET during the move from Cleveland to Simpsonville

Archive image — KEMET Tantalum Capacitors, 1959

Archive image — A technician at the KEMET plant in Cleveland reads X-ray plates for Telstar, the first communications satellite, 1962

Archive image — State-of-the-art technology, 1968

Archive image — Testing capacitors, circa 1978

Archive image — KEMET chemist at work, circa 1969

Archive image — KEMET Advertisement for Ceramic Chips, 1980

Archive image — Dr. John Piper was one of KEMET’s leading scientists, from 1960 until his retirement as VP of Technology in 1996

Archive image — KEMET Tantalum Capacitors, 1959

Archive image — KEMET Advertisement, 1963

Archive image — Checking product quality, Greenville, SC, Circa 1972

Archive image — State-of-the-Art Technology, 1968

Archive image — Union Carbide’s KEMET Plant in Simpsonville, SC, 1965

Archive image — KEMET's global workforce is 55% women.

1954-1987

Archive image — Ford Total Quality Excellence Award, circa 1995

Archive image — Tantalum Capacitors, 1990

Archive image — Tantalum mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Archive image — KEMET Ceramic Capacitors: picture shows how they are smaller than a grain of salt

Archive image — David E. Maguire, Part of KEMET Leadership, 1954-1987

Archive image — KEMET manufactured more then 50 billion components in 2018.

Archive image — Miner working in the Tantalum mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

2000-2019

Archive image — KEMET employees working in manufacturing plant in Suzhou, China

Archive image — KEMET employs more than 16,000 people world-wide.

Archive image — Film Innovation Lab in Roma, Italy

Archive image — Manufacturing Plant in Suzhou, China

Archive image — KEMET engineer working in Suzhou, China plant