Type Public K.K. Area served Worldwide Founder Furukawa Ichibei | Industry Electrical equipment Headquarters Japan Founded 25 June 1896 | |
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Traded as TYO: 5801
Nikkei 225 Component Key people Masao Yoshida
(Chairman)
Mitsuyoshi Shibata
(President) Products Automotive systems
Electronics equipment
Energy and industrial products
Metal and aluminum products Stock price 5801 (TYO) JP¥ 4,255 -45.00 (-1.05%)17 Mar, 3:00 PM GMT+9 - Disclaimer Subsidiaries The Furukawa Battery Co.,Ltd., FCM | ||
Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. (古河電気工業株式会社, Furukawa Denkikōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese electric and electronics equipment company.
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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
Furukawa Electric Group global logo
In April 2013 the company adopted a new group global logo mark "that will be shared among all global group companies as a symbol to create a greater sense of unity while helping to convey a stronger global market presence for the Furukawa brand".