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Nippon Light Metal

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Type
  
Public KK

Headquarters
  
Japan

Traded as
  
TYO: 5703 OSE: 5703

Founded
  
1 October 2012

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Industry
  
Non-ferrous metal Chemicals

Key people
  
Takashi Ishiyama, (CEO and President)

Products
  
Alumina and alumina products Chemical products

Revenue
  
$ 3.954 billion USD (FY 2012) (¥ 371.88 billion JPY) (FY 2012)

Nippon Light Metal Holdings Co., Ltd. (日本軽金属ホールディングス株式会社, Nihon Keikinzoku Hōrudingusu Kabushiki Kaisha) is a Japanese multinational public industrial holding company that through its subsidiaries is mainly engaged in the manufacture and sale of aluminum and chemical products. It is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the Nikkei 225.

In 1939 Nippon Light Metal Co. was incorporated jointly by Furukawa Electric and Tokyo Dento (currently TEPCO) to start the aluminum smelting and in 2012 Nippon Light Metal Holdings Co., a pure holding company for the former, was established.

Business segments and products

The Company operates in four business segments:

  • Aluminum Ingot and Chemicals
  • alumina, aluminum hydroxide, chemical goods, aluminum bullion, aluminum alloys
  • Aluminum Sheet and Extrusions
  • aluminum sheets and aluminum extrusion products
  • Fabricated Products and Others
  • processed aluminum products including electronic materials, industrial components, landscape related products
  • transportation-related products including van, truck and trailer bodies, automobile parts
  • panels for freezers and refrigerators, solar panel frames, electrode sheets for aluminum electrolytic capacitors, aluminum kegs, panels for clean rooms as well as carbon products (carbon blocks)
  • Aluminum Foil, Powder and Paste
  • aluminum foil for electrolytic capacitors, antennas for IC cards/tags
  • solar panel backsheets, conductive inks for solar cell electrodes

    • References

    Nippon Light Metal Wikipedia
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