Furukawa Electric
is a Japanese electric and electronics equipment company. The company was founded by Furukawa Ichibei in 1884 in Yokohama when a copper-smelting facility and a wire manufacturing factory were established. 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. Furukawa Electric aids CERN's experiments on the search for the Higgs boson with its superconducting magnet wires. 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. Business segments and products * Electronics and automotive systems ** Wire harnesses and electronic components for automobiles ** Components for electronic equipment ** Magnet wires * Energy and ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  

Furukawa Electric En Logo
Furukawa (古川 or 古河, both meaning "old river") may refer to: People *Furukawa (surname) Places * Furukawa, Gifu, a former town merged into the city of Hida, Gifu *Furukawa, Miyagi, city located in Miyagi, Japan *Furukawa Station, JR East railway station located in Ōsaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan *Hida-Furukawa Station, JR Central railway station located in Hida, Gifu Prefecture, Japan *Nishi-Furukawa Station, JR East railway station located in Ōsaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan Business *Furukawa Co. *Furukawa Electric,a Japanese electric and electronics equipment company Other

*JEF United Ichihara Chiba, JR East and Furukawa Electric United {{disambiguation, geo ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]