KYT was born as a “Racing Idea Project” inspired by its founder Mr Eddy Tedjakusuma, who since 1980 has been successful to create PT TARA group namely PT Tara Citra Kusuma in Indonesia as one of the biggest helmet production manufacturing in the world until today. With growing market predominantly in Asia and the world, PT TARA today has been regarded as the main global manufacture extensively focus on motorcycle helmet production with its in-house plant facilities totaling to 100,000 m2. Fully owned by Mr Eddy Tedjakusuma’s family, the factory is located in the Lippo Cikarang industrial area with a travel time of about 45 minutes from the center of Jakarta
The philosophy lies in presenting the highest value helmet by replicating and maintaining the highest qualities and attributes of a premium racing helmet, at an acceptable value point to the world-wide customer. Each of KYT helmet shall have inside the racing know-how whether it is for helmet from street use until professional racing helmet.
Thanks to the extensive experience in producing many private label well-known brand premium motorcycle helmets world wide, KYT has adopted the strict manufacturing process and precision norm with the latest technology.
KYT has fast forwarded to become important brand benefitting from constant research and acquisition of latest technology to create premium motorcycle racing helmet. It has its Research and Development and Design facility based in Italy, Europe. KYT presents to customer selected models that start from entry level to high-end professional racing helmet.
KYT has been historically dedicated its public communication through number of professional racers around the world. KYT’s presence in the racing world is of considerable importance, with riders such as Enea Bastianini, Lorenzo Savadori and Augusto Fernandez in MotoGP, Lorenzo dalla Porta and Dennis Foggia in Moto2, Jaume Masia in Moto 3.
We recognize global raw material suppliers mostly from Europe.
COOPERATION BETWEEN KYT AND SUOMY
In Cologne Show 2014 the cooperation between KYT and SUOMY closed, the top brand of an important Indonesian group, that has 70% of the national market and has been in the Asian market for 21 years, in order to create new growth perspective and a bilateral transmit of information between the two companies.
For SUOMY, European distributor of the brand KYT, the synergy will be an important source of knowing as regards project and helmets production of big quantity, that KYT can face and distribute as leader in Asian market with many millions of produced units per year.
