Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. - Japanese company of the electrical industry . Included in Keiretsu Sumitomo . The company takes 409th place [2] in the Fortune Global 500 ( 2011 ).
| Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. | |
|---|---|
| Type of | |
| Exchange listing | , OSX : 5802 , NSE : 5802 |
| Base | 1897 year |
| Location |  Japan , Osaka |
| Key figures | Masayoshi Matsumoto (President) |
| Industry | Electrical industry |
| Products | Electric cable, etc. |
| Turnover | ▲ $ 23.746 billion ( 2010 ) |
| Net profit | ▲ $ 0.825 billion ( 2010 ) |
| Number of employees | 182,773 people (March 2011 ) [1] |
| Parent company | |
| Affiliated companies | Sumitomo Electric Wintec, Inc. Sumiden Hitachi Cable Ltd. Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp. |
| Website | global-sei.com |
Content
- 1 History
- 2 company today
- 3 notes
- 4 References
History
The history of the company begins in 1897 when Sumitomo acquired Nihon Seido Co., Ltd. to enter the copper wire market.
In 1908, the company began to produce power cables , in 1909 - telecommunications.
In 1911, Sumitomo Group's cable production became a separate structure of Sumitomo Electric Wire & Cable Works. In the same year, the first Japanese underground high-voltage cables (11 thousand volts) were produced.
In 1916, the company opened a new factory in Osaka .
In 1920, the company went through the process of corporatization and entered into a technical partnership with the American Western Electric.
In 1941, a new factory was opened in Itami . Two years later, the company develops the production of rubber products.
In 1957, the company began production of Japan's first household television antennas.
In 1961, the company opened another plant in Yokohama . In the same year, the company began supplying wiring for the automotive industry.
In 1969, the company expanded the geography of its own production through the opening of a plant in Thailand . In the same year, the production of flexible printed circuit boards begins.
In 1971, a factory was opened in the Kanto region . In 1974, the production of fiber optic cable was launched.
In 1982, the company's engineers created synthetic single-crystal diamonds of 1.2 carats, which was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records .
At the beginning of the two thousandth, many of the company's production are separated into separate subsidiaries.
In 2014, together with OJSC Radio Equipment Plant (part of the holding of the state corporation Rostelektronika OJSC Rostec ), a high-tech production of automotive harnesses and wires Ural Wiring Systems was opened in Yekaterinburg [3] .
Company today
Currently, the company has three in-house facilities: in Osaka , Itami and Yokohama .
In addition to traditional products, a variety of cables - from conventional to fiber optic, the company produces wheel rotation sensors and motion control systems for the automotive industry, semiconductor compounds, synthetic diamonds, battery cells and much more.