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Type
  
Public KK

Headquarters
  
Japan

Industry
  
Chemicals

Founded
  
8 April 1918

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Traded as
  
TYO: 5301 Nikkei 225 Component

Key people
  
Hajime Nagasaka, (CEO and President)

Products
  
Carbon products Industrial furnaces

Revenue
  
US$ 977 million (FY 2013) (JP¥ 100.935 billion) (FY 2013)

Stock price
  
5301 (TYO) JP¥ 485 -6.00 (-1.22%)31 Mar, 3:00 PM GMT+9 - Disclaimer

Number of employees
  
1,916 (as of December 2013, consolidated)

Subsidiaries
  
Cancarb Limited, Tokai Konetsu Kogyo Co., Ltd.

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Tokai Carbon Co., Ltd. (東海カーボン株式会社, Tōkai Kābon Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese company. The company is a developer and stockist of graphite material for use in nuclear power, particularly electrical discharge machining electrode, high temperature, and mechanical applications.

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The company was founded in 1918 as Tokai Electrode Mfg. Co. Ltd. with a plant in Nagoya and the head office in Tokyo. In 1975 it changed to its present name, Tokai Carbon Co., Ltd. It is listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the Nikkei 225 stock index.

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Company locations

In Japan Tokai Carbon has:

  • Manufacturing plants in Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Taketoyo, Aichi, Ōmihachiman, Shiga, Hōfu, Yamaguchi, Kitakyushu and Ashikita, Kumamoto
  • Laboratories in Oyama, Shizuoka, Taketoyo (Aichi), Hōfu (Yamaguchi), Ashikita (Kumamoto) and Chigasaki (Kanagawa)
  • Branch offices in Osaka, Nagoya and Fukuoka
  • As of the end of 2012 it has 24 subsidiaries and 6 affiliated companies in Japan, Germany, the UK, Sweden, Italy, China, Thailand, South Korea and the US.

    Business segments and products

  • Carbon black for use in the tire (as a pigment and reinforcing agent for tires) and rubber industry
  • Carbon and ceramics
  • Graphite electrodes, which are used for recycling steel in electric furnaces
  • Fine carbon, which is used in solar cell and semi-conductor industry
  • Industrial furnaces and related products for fine ceramic, glass and electronic parts industry
  • Other operations
  • Friction materials for use in the motorcycle, construction machinery and automobile industries (in brake and clutch systems)
  • Property leasing and operation of golf practice centers
  • Source

    References

    Tokai Carbon Wikipedia