Sumitomo Metal Industries

Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.. (Japanese住友 金属 工业 株式会社, Sumitomo Kinzoku Kōgyō kabushiki - gaisha ) is a Japanese company with headquarters in Osaka. Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.. is one of 37 companies of the Sumitomo group (see h Sumitomo Group).

The company is engaged in mining. The company's history dates back to 1897.

Main fields of activity

At Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd.. worldwide, are 25 subsidiaries with 100 % participation, 23 with a majority stake of over 50 % and 26 with a stake of less than 50%. Currently build Vallourec (61%) and Sumitomo ( 39%) of the Tubos do Brasil Ltda. a tube factory with 600,000 tons of capacity in Brazil.

The main fields of activity are:

  • Steel Sheet, Plate, Titanium & Structural Steel Company, Steel and Titanium Products
  • Pipe and Tube Company, Pipiline and tubes
  • Railway, Automotive, & Machinery Parts Company, a supplier for railway, automobile and engineering industries
  • Engineering Company, bridge, buildings (steel construction )
  • Silicon wafer

The Japanese subsidiary of Sumitomo Sitix was connected to the silicon area of ​​the company Mitsubishi. From this, the Japanese company SUMCO (Sumitomo Mitsubishi), who is currently (2010) second largest producer of silicon wafers, wafers originated.

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