Furukawa Electric
Japanese company
Type | Public K.K. |
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TYO
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5801
Nikkei 225 Component |
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Industry | Electrical equipment |
Founded | Yokohama , Japan (1884 ; 139 years ago ( 1884 ) ) |
Founder | Furukawa Ichibei |
Headquarters | Tokiwabashi Tower, 6-4, Otemachi 2-chome, Chiyoda-ku , Tokyo 100-8322, Japan |
Area served
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Worldwide |
Key people
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Mitsuyoshi Shibata
(Chairman) Keiichi Kobayashi (President) |
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Revenue | $ 7.529 billion USD ( FY 2017) (¥ 843.344 billion JPY ) ( FY 2017) |
$ 1.136 billion USD ( FY 2017) (¥ 115 billion JPY ) ( FY 2017) | |
Number of employees
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Website | Official website |
Footnotes
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references
[1] [2] |
Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. ( 古河電気工業株式会社 , Furukawa Denkikōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha ) is a Japanese electric and electronics equipment company.
History
The company traces its origins to Furukawa Ichibei who founded Nikko Copper Works, a copper-smelting facility at Yokohama in 1884, which became part of Furukuwa Kogyo. A new company; Furukuwa Denki Kogyo, was formed in 1920, when it merged its copper business with its own Yokohoma Wire Manufacturing Company, which it had acquired in 1908. [3] So, the new company was able to combine its businesses of mining, refining, and making copper products, like wire and cable. [4]
Furukawa was a Japanese businessman who founded one of the fifteen largest industrial conglomerates in Japan, called Furukawa zaibatsu , to which Furukawa Electric belongs to this day.
The company is listed on the Tokyo stock Exchange and is constituent of the Nikkei 225 stock index . [5]
Furukawa Electric aids CERN's experiments on the search for the Higgs boson with its superconducting magnet wires . [6] The company's products also include superconductivity cables.
As of July 2013 the company has 137 subsidiaries and affiliate companies across Japan , Europe , North and South America . [7]
Business segments and products
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Electronics and automotive systems
- Wire harnesses and electronic components for automobiles
- Components for electronic equipment
- Magnet wires
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Energy and industrial products
- Copper wire rods
- Industrial power cables
- Microcellular foam
- Semiconductor processing tapes
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Light metals
- Aluminum can stock
- Aluminum tank materials for LNG vessels
- Aluminum materials for semiconductor manufacturing equipment
- Processed aluminum
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Metals
- Copper foils
- Wrought copper products for electronics
- Copper tubes for air conditioning
- Superconducting wires
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Telecommunications
- Optical fibers and cables
- Laser diode modules
- Optical amplifiers
- Networking equipments [1]
See also
References
- 1 2 "Furukawa Electric Company Profile" . Archived from the original on March 19, 2014 . Retrieved March 19, 2014 .
- ↑ "Furukawa Electric Financial Statements 2013" (PDF) . Archived from the original (PDF) on March 19, 2014 . Retrieved March 19, 2014 .
- ↑ Whittaker, D. Hugh; Cole, Robert E. (2006-08-17). Recovering from Success: Innovation and Technology Management in Japan . OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-929731-3 .
- ↑ Picken, Stuart D. B. (2009). The A to Z of Japanese Business . Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8108-6872-4 .
- ↑ "Components:Nikkei Stock Average" . Nikkei Inc . Retrieved March 19, 2014 .
- ↑ "Furukawa's technology contributed to the discovery of the Higgs boson" (PDF) . Archived from the original (PDF) on July 17, 2016 . Retrieved March 19, 2014 .
- ↑ "Furukawa Electric Group Sustainability Report 2013" (PDF) . Archived from the original (PDF) on March 19, 2014 . Retrieved March 19, 2014 .
External links
- Official website (in English)
- OFS-Optical Fiber Solution (subsidiary)
- "Company history books (Shashi)" . Shashi Interest Group. April 2016. Wiki collection of bibliographic works on Furukawa Electric
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