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Lightera
The brand consolidates Furukawa Electric’s global expertise in fiber optics, offering innovative connectivity solutions for diverse industries around the world. The name Lightera symbolizes a new era driven by light, reflecting the potential of technological and cultural progress.
OFS-Optical Fiber Solution (subsidiary)
* Wiki collection of bibliographic works on Furukawa Electric
Lightera Official Website
Electronics companies of Japan Electrical equipment manufacturers Wire and cable manufacturers Manufacturing companies based in Tokyo Companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Companies in the Nikkei 225 Electronics companies established in 1884 Japanese companies established in 1884 Japanese brands Furukawa Group {{Japan-company-stub
electric
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and electronics equipment company.
History
The company traces its origins toFurukawa Ichibei
was a Japanese businessman who founded one of the fifteen largest industrial conglomerates in Japan, specializing in electrical goods, chemicals and metals. He bought the Ashio copper mine from the Japanese government in 1877, which he later o ...
who founded Nikko Copper Works, a copper-smelting facility at Yokohama
is the List of cities in Japan, second-largest city in Japan by population as well as by area, and the country's most populous Municipalities of Japan, municipality. It is the capital and most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a popu ...
in 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. So, the new company was able to combine its businesses of mining, refining, and making copper products, like wire and cable.
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
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stock index
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.
Furukawa Electric aids CERN's experiments on the search for the Higgs boson
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one of the field (physics), fields in particl ...
with its superconducting magnet
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wires. The company's products also include superconductivity
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cables.
As of July 2013 the company has 137 subsidiaries and affiliate companies across Japan
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, Europe
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, North
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and South America
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.
In 2025, Furukawa Electric will integrate its global fiber optic cable operations under a new brandLightera
The brand consolidates Furukawa Electric’s global expertise in fiber optics, offering innovative connectivity solutions for diverse industries around the world. The name Lightera symbolizes a new era driven by light, reflecting the potential of technological and cultural progress.
Business segments and products
* Electronics and automotive systems ** Wire harnesses andelectronic component
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s for automobiles
** Components for electronic equipment
** Magnet wire
Magnet wire or enameled wire is a copper or aluminium wire coated with a very thin layer of insulation. It is used in the construction of transformers, inductors, motors, generators,
speakers, headphones, hard disk head actuators, ele ...
s
* Energy and industrial products
** Copper
Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu (from Latin ) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a pinkish-orang ...
wire rods
** Industrial power cable
A power cable is an electrical cable used specifically for transmission of electric energy, electrical power. It is an assembly of one or more electrical conductors, usually held together in a single bundle with an insulator (electricity), insu ...
s
** Microcellular foam
** Semiconductor processing tapes
* Light metals
** Aluminum can
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It is commonly used for food and beverages such as olives and soup b ...
stock
** Aluminum tank materials for LNG vessels
** Aluminum materials for semiconductor manufacturing equipment
** Processed aluminum
* Metals
** Copper foils
** Wrought copper products for electronics
** Copper tubes for air conditioning
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** Superconducting wire
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s
* Telecommunications
** Optical fibers
An optical fiber, or optical fibre, is a flexible glass or plastic fiber that can transmit light from one end to the other. Such fibers find wide usage in fiber-optic communications, where they permit transmission over longer distances and at ...
and cables
** Laser diode
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modules
** Optical amplifiers
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** Networking equipments
See also
* OFS (Company)References
External links
*OFS-Optical Fiber Solution (subsidiary)
* Wiki collection of bibliographic works on Furukawa Electric
Lightera Official Website
Electronics companies of Japan Electrical equipment manufacturers Wire and cable manufacturers Manufacturing companies based in Tokyo Companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Companies in the Nikkei 225 Electronics companies established in 1884 Japanese companies established in 1884 Japanese brands Furukawa Group {{Japan-company-stub