Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.(Cổ hà điện khí công nghiệp kabushiki gaisha,Furukawa Denkikōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha)is a Japaneseelectricandelectronics equipmentcompany.
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| Company type | PublicK.K. |
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| TYO:5801 Nikkei 225 Component | |
| Industry | Electrical equipment |
| Founded | Yokohama,Japan(1884) |
| Founder | Furukawa Ichibei |
| Headquarters | Tokiwabashi Tower, 6-4,Otemachi2-chome,Chiyoda-ku,Tokyo 100-8322, Japan |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Mitsuyoshi Shibata (Chairman) Keiichi Kobayashi (President) |
| Products |
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| Revenue |  $ 7.529 billionUSD(FY2017)
(¥ 843.344 billionJPY) (FY2017) |
| $ 1.136 billionUSD(FY2017)
(¥ 115 billionJPY) (FY2017) | |
Number of employees |
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| Website | Official website |
| Footnotes / references [1][2] | |
History
editThe company traces its origins toFurukawa Ichibeiwho founded Nikko Copper Works, a copper-smelting facility atYokohamain 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 largestindustrial conglomeratesin Japan, calledFurukawa zaibatsu,to which Furukawa Electric belongs to this day.
The company is listed on the Tokyo stock Exchange and is constituent of theNikkei 225stock index.[5]
Furukawa Electric aidsCERN'sexperiments on the search for theHiggs bosonwith itssuperconducting magnetwires.[6]The company's products also includesuperconductivitycables.
As of July 2013 the company has 137 subsidiaries and affiliate companies acrossJapan,Europe,NorthandSouth America.[7]
Business segments and products
edit- Electronics and automotive systems
- Wire harnessesandelectronic componentsfor automobiles
- Components for electronic equipment
- Magnet wires
- Energy and industrial products
- Copperwire rods
- Industrialpower cables
- Microcellular foam
- Semiconductor processing tapes
- Light metals
- Aluminum canstock
- Aluminum tank materials forLNG vessels
- Aluminum materials for semiconductor manufacturing equipment
- Processed aluminum
- Metals
- Copper foils
- Wrought copper products for electronics
- Copper tubes forair conditioning
- Superconducting wires
- Telecommunications
- Optical fibersand cables
- Laser diodemodules
- Optical amplifiers
- Networking equipments[1]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ab"Furukawa Electric Company Profile".Archived fromthe originalon March 19, 2014.RetrievedMarch 19,2014.
- ^"Furukawa Electric Financial Statements 2013"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on March 19, 2014.RetrievedMarch 19,2014.
- ^Whittaker, D. Hugh; Cole, Robert E. (2006-08-17).Recovering from Success: Innovation and Technology Management in Japan.OUP Oxford.ISBN978-0-19-929731-3.
- ^Picken, Stuart D. B. (2009).The A to Z of Japanese Business.Rowman & Littlefield.ISBN978-0-8108-6872-4.
- ^"Components:Nikkei Stock Average".Nikkei Inc.RetrievedMarch 19,2014.
- ^"Furukawa's technology contributed to the discovery of the Higgs boson"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on July 17, 2016.RetrievedMarch 19,2014.
- ^"Furukawa Electric Group Sustainability Report 2013"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on March 19, 2014.RetrievedMarch 19,2014.
External links
edit- 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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