- Headquarters
- Tokyo, Japan · East Asia
- Value chain
- Components & subsystems(Inputs); also Advanced materials
- What that means
- Makes the parts others build into products: chips, sensors, optics, modules, engines and subsystems.
- Founded
- 1884
- Ownership
- Listed
- Listing
- TSE:5801 on Google Finance
- Website
- furukawa.co.jp
- Relevance
- High at its strongest, in Superconducting, Magnetic & Photonic Materials
Tokyo, JapanIn 2 capabilities
Each capability the company is listed in, most relevant first: how experts in the field see its global relevance there, why it is listed and the source.
Advanced Materials & Manufacturing · Manufacture · listed #7 of 50
Makes NbTi and Nb3Sn low-temperature superconducting wire and, through US subsidiary SuperPower, REBCO second-generation HTS tape; it also makes optical fibre.
Relevance: Major LTS wire and REBCO tape producer via SuperPower
Connectivity, Cyber & Trust Technologies · Equipment & materials · listed #19 of 50
Owns OFS (US) and Furukawa Electric LatAm; makes specialty fibre, rollable-ribbon cable and pump and tunable lasers.
Relevance: Solid fibre and cable player via OFS