Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces an Equity Buyback for 16,000,000 shares, representing 5.99% for ¥20,000 million.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation specializes in design, manufacturing and marketing of electronic equipments. Net sales break down by family of products as follows: - automation and control equipments (90.4%): industrial control systems, production control systems, flow meters, industrial recorders, etc.; - measuring and test equipments (6.9%): semiconductor tests equipments, analyzers, digital counters, electricity, temperature and pressure measuring instruments, scanners, oscilloscopes, tachymeter, altitude indicators, integrated display systems, etc.; - other (1.7%): marine equipments, meteorological and hydrological measuring instruments, etc. Net sales break down geographically as follows: Japan (32.2%), China (14%), India (3.6%), Asia and the Far East (15.7%), Middle East and Africa (11.2%), North America (8.9%), Europe (8%), Russia (3.8%) and Latin America (2.6%).