TDK sponsored Agoria Solar Team from Belgium has finished second in the Sasol Solar Challenge in South Africa. The students from the Technical University Leuven covered 4,186 kilometers in eight days, just 38 kilometers behind the first-placed team, the Brunel Solar Team from Leiden in the Netherlands.

TDK Electronics wants to produce as eco-friendly and low in emissions as possible. In April 2021, the company had already achieved the TDK Group's goal of halving its CO₂ emissions by 2035. Today, emissions have been reduced by further 15 percent and are thus around two-thirds lower relative to sales than in 2015.

TDK supports sustainable mobility concepts for the future and is now also involved in the field of solar vehicles: for the 2022 season, TDK is sponsoring the Agoria Solar Team at the Technical University of Leuven in Belgium. The team has recently won the biggest and most important races and is the current world champion of the scene. At the moment, the students are preparing for the Sasol Solar Challenge in South Africa. TDK supports the team with components, know-how and also financially.

Big success for the Hyperloop racing team Swissloop, supported by TDK, at the European Hyperloop Week in Delft: The students from ETH Zurich prevailed in 2 of 6 categories and won gold for the best traction and the best mechanical subsystem.

TDK works with students at various universities to develop sustainable mobility concepts for the future. As part of its sponsorship program, TDK is promoting concepts for the Hyperloop as well as for solar and electric vehicles.

Well positioned, the Heidenheim site celebrates its 75th anniversary. Production has been significantly expanded to meet the growing demand, particularly from the automotive industry. Further investments are planned. As early as next year, the site's capacity is to increase to one billion inductivities per year.

TDK will once again support the Swissloop Team at ETH Zuerich as they take part in the European Hyperloop Week (EHW) in the Netherlands in July. The team bagged the first prize at last year’s competition.

Nashik site celebrates its 25th anniversary. Over this period, the plant has substantially expanded and continuously broadened its expertise. Plans are already underway for the next phase of expansion to start additional production in 2023.

TDK has once again honored its best and most successful distributors. The TDK Best Global Performance Award went to Mouser Electronics. TDK European Distribution Awards in Gold were presented to Avnet Abacus in the International Distributor category, to RS Components Europe in the e-Catalogue Distributors category and to the Austrian company EPi-Components as Best Local Distributor.

TDK Corporation announces that Dr. Werner Lohwasser (55) will become the new Chairman of the Management Board and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of TDK Electronics AG, a TDK Group company, effective July 1, 2022. This was decided by the Supervisory Board of TDK Electronics.

TDK Corporation was recently recognized as a Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovator™ 2022 for its innovation and leadership in digital transformation (DX) and energy transformation (EX) for the smart society. Since 2012 the Top 100 Global Innovators has identified companies at the pinnacle of the global innovation landscape by measuring the ideation culture that produces patents and puts them at the forefront.

TDK's CLT32 series power inductors are the promising product of the year of electronics title EE TIMES Taiwan. The award is based on a vote of nearly 10,000 users of the online magazines EE TIMES and EDN in Taiwan and Asia.

TDK Corporation today announced that effective October 1, 2021, Josef Vissing  (57) has been named President of TDK Europe GmbH, the company's European sales organization for passive components. He thus succeeds Ludger Trockel (57), who will take over the role as Head of Sales & Marketing Group of TDK Corporation’s Electronic Components Business Company in Japan, Tokyo.

TDK honored its best distribution partners in Europe by presenting them – for the eighth time – with the TDK European Distribution Award 2020. The gold award in the “High-Service Distributors” category went to Mouser Electronics.

The plant at Johor Bahru in Malaysia is now using solar power generated on-site for production purposes. To do so, the factory installed a rooftop photovoltaic (PV) system that outputs about 640 megawatt-hours of electricity per year – roughly 8 percent of its annual requirement.

TDK Electronics has halved its CO₂ emissions compared to 2015. This is being helped by the fact that sites in Asia are increasingly turning to electricity from renewable sources.

With electricity from 100 percent renewable energies and a rooftop photovoltaic system, the TDK Electronics site in Málaga has significantly reduced its CO₂ emissions.

The TDK Electronics plant in Deutschlandsberg/Austria will in future use solar power generated on site to fuel its production. By September 2021, a photovoltaic system will be installed on the roof of the warehouse and dispatch building.

The TDK plant in Hongqi, China, has moved to a much bigger site whose many improvements will make it more competitive.

In China, TDK Electronics has won for the first time HVAC system producer Hisense-Hitachi’s Excellent Supplier Award. Critical factors clinching the award were reliable delivery during the coronavirus pandemic and outstanding technical support for the customer-specific products.