, or MMC, is a Japanese company. It is a manufacturer of cement products, copper and aluminum products, cemented carbide tools, and electronic materials. It is one of the core companies of
Mitsubishi Group
The is a group of autonomous Japanese multinational companies in a variety of industries.
Founded by Yatarō Iwasaki in 1870, the Mitsubishi Group traces its origins to the Mitsubishi zaibatsu, a unified company that existed from 1870 to 1946 ...
.
The company is listed on the
Tokyo Stock Exchange
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The exchange is owned by Japan Exchange Group (JPX), a holding company that it also lists (), and operated by Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc., a wholly owned sub ...
and the
Osaka Securities Exchange, and is a constituent of the
Nikkei 225
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stock market index
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.
In 2018 Mitsubishi Materials admitted that five of its subsidiaries, Mitsubishi Cable Industries Ltd., Mitsubishi Shindoh Co., Mitsubishi Aluminum Co., Tachibana Metal MFG Co. and Diamet Corp., had falsified quality data over the past three years on shipments including aluminium and automotive components. Mitsubishi Materials has started investigations at about 120 factories in its group.
Business summary
Mitsubishi Materials Corporation has eight business sections, which are:
* Cement business
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Portland cement
Portland cement is the most common type of cement in general use around the world as a basic ingredient of concrete, mortar (masonry), mortar, stucco, and non-specialty grout. It was developed from other types of hydraulic lime in England in th ...
** Cement-related products
**
Ready-mix concrete
** Building materials
* Metals business
**
Copper smelting
Smelting is a process of applying heat and a chemical reducing agent to an ore to extract a desired base metal product. It is a form of extractive metallurgy that is used to obtain many metals such as iron, copper, silver, tin, lead and zinc. Sm ...
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Copper and copper alloy products
* Advanced materials & tools business
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Cemented carbide products
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Sintered parts
** High-performance alloy products
* Energy business
**
Fossil fuel
A fossil fuel is a flammable carbon compound- or hydrocarbon-containing material formed naturally in the Earth's crust from the buried remains of prehistoric organisms (animals, plants or microplanktons), a process that occurs within geolog ...
s
**
Nuclear energy-related services
* Electronic materials & components business
** Electronic materials
**
Electronic component
An electronic component is any basic discrete electronic device or physical entity part of an electronic system used to affect electrons or their associated fields. Electronic components are mostly industrial products, available in a singula ...
s
**
Polycrystalline silicon
Polycrystalline silicon, or multicrystalline silicon, also called polysilicon, poly-Si, or mc-Si, is a high purity, polycrystalline form of silicon, used as a raw material by the solar photovoltaic and electronics industry.
Polysilicon is produc ...
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Chemical
A chemical substance is a unique form of matter with constant chemical composition and characteristic properties. Chemical substances may take the form of a single element or chemical compounds. If two or more chemical substances can be combin ...
s
* Recycling business
** Resource-, environment-, and recycling-related products
* Aluminum business
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Aluminum beverage cans
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Rolled and
extruded aluminum products
** Processed aluminum products
* Precious metals business
References
External links
Company website
Cement companies of Japan
Manufacturing companies based in Tokyo
Mitsubishi companies
Companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
Companies listed on the Osaka Exchange
Companies in the Nikkei 225
Japanese companies established in 1871
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Metal companies of Japan