Metal Products Business Unit. The Metal Products Business Unit offers products and services that meet customer needs in the metal products trading industry, using the Sumitomo Integrated Corporate Strength, while creating one of the top businesses in the industry.

Metal Products Business Unit

Business Lines

The Metal Products Business Unit is involved in the trade of steel products (steel sheets, tubular products, etc.) and non-ferrous metals (aluminum, titanium, etc.), as well as a wide range of processing ventures both domestically and internationally.

Business Overview

Shunichi Arai
General Manager

The Metal Products Business Unit is involved in the trade of metal products, including steel sheets, tubular products and other products, as well as non-ferrous metals such as aluminum and titanium. The Business Unit offers unique service features in response to customer needs both domestically and internationally, while building a strong value chain along each product line. The Metal Products Business Unit provides SCM (Supply Chain Management) services in the steel sheet field, including steel processing and inventory management. Through its domestic and international steel service center network, the Unit offers high-value-added services to automotive and home electronics manufacturers. In the tubular products business field, the Metal Products Business Unit is involved in a proprietary SCM system called "TIMS*," which includes comprehensive management as well as maintenance and storage, for Oil Country Tubular Goods (OCTG) for oil and gas companies. The Metal Products Business Unit has expanded a global network as a total services provider.

*TIMS:Tubular Information Management System

Sumitomo Corporation’s Tubular Products Business in North America and its Global Expansion
—Expansion of the Tubular Products Business Value Chain

  • Tubular products supporting energy industry and infrastructure for our daily living
  • Reading trends, and setting the course boldly and accurately
  • Integrated operations from upstream to downstream
  • Global expansion

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Steel Service Center operations (domestic, international)

  

Katana Summit LLC (U.S.), engaged in the construction of wind turbine towers

  

Summit Showa Aluminum Ltd. (Japan), engaged in the aluminum alloy operations

Arkansas Steel Associates (U.S.), engaged in the manufacture of the tie plate used in rails

  

Soufuku Kouki (Japan), engaged in the manufacture of steel racks and other logistics storage equipment

    

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