Global Business Division

Global Business Division

Metal One’s businesses and roles
Plate, Construction & Tubular Products Business Division
Flat Products Business Division
Global Business Division
Global Marketing & Energy Project Business Division
Wire, Specialty & Stainless Steel Business Division
Digital transformation
Carbon neutrality
Business creation and innovation
Recruiting information
Terms of Use
The Global Business Division, consisting of two business units and one office,
supports manufacturing supply chains worldwide,
primarily through steel service center operations handling steel sheet processing
for automotive and electrical appliance industries operating overseas.
We are also focusing on creating new businesses that help solve various social issues,
especially in terms of the current era of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.
Automotive & Electrical Steel Global Business Unit
The Automotive & Electrical Steel Global Business Unit runs steel service centers that handle local steel sheet processing for automotive and electrical appliance industries overseas in Central America, Asia, China and India. We are proud of our superior business scale among Japanese trading companies. We support the manufacturing strength of Japanese companies by supplying base materials and parts and bolster supply chains in those regions. In recent years we are also focusing on the increasing popularity of electric vehicles (EVs) thanks to the drive to achieve carbon neutrality. We have fused the expertise developed in electrical steel sheet businesses for appliances and motors with its strengths in automotive steel sheet to provide value-added processing services that only an integrated steel trading company can offer to the EV market, where greater growth is anticipated. Product lines Hot- and cold-rolled steel sheet, surface-treated steel sheet, electrical steel sheet and more
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Global Service Center Management Unit
The Global Service Center Management Unit primarily runs steel services centers in the Americas. That includes Coilplus, Inc., which has been around in business for four decades and operates steel service centers in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. With an annual business volume of around a million tonnes at nine plants, Coilplus boasts preeminence in terms of history and scale in North America. In Brazil, our Group affiliate Soluções em Aço Usiminas S.A. partners with Usiminas, South America’s largest steel manufacturer, to handle a variety of local steel sheet processing requirements. Product lines Hot- and cold-rolled steel sheet, surface-treated steel sheet and more
Business Creation & Innovation Office
As a trading company involved in materials industries, Metal One focuses on creating new businesses with partners around the world. We are seeking solutions to social issues such as population decline due to the aging of society and fewer children, deteriorating infrastructure, and more. We are also working on the changes that new technologies and values bring, including digitalization and carbon neutrality.
We established NejiMO in partnership with Hiroshi Michiwaki, who leads NejiLaw Inc. and invented screws that do not come loose. Through NejiMO, we develop and commercialize groundbreaking ideas and products that provide next-generation infrastructure and ease labor shortages. Through Kyowa Co., Ltd., which manufactures equipment for steel service centers, we are undertaking groundbreaking trials linked to the coil center industry’s growth and evolution. Along with these, we are undertaking initiatives to train personnel to develop enterprises and to support their new ventures through programs such as Forum 01 and the Business Creation Challenge.
PICKUP
Metal One took a stake in Lagor S.r.l., which manufactures transformer cores indispensable to Europe’s power transmission grid, in July 2024. The company has manufactured and sold cores that are vital transformer components, primarily to transformer manufacturers in Europe, for over five decades. We are responding to the demand for transformer cores—which is expected to grow—by leveraging the company’s superior quality and technical strengths in combination with the global network Metal One possesses. Our goal is to help create a carbon-free world and a more sustainable society.
Metal One’s businesses and roles
Plate, Construction & Tubular Products Business Division
Flat Products Business Division
Global Business Division
Global Marketing & Energy Project Business Division
Wire, Specialty & Stainless Steel Business Division
Digital transformation
Carbon neutrality
Business creation and innovation