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| Company type | PublicK.K. |
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| TYO:5801 Nikkei 225 Component | |
| Industry | Electrical equipment |
| Founded | Yokohama,Japan (1884; 142 years ago (1884)) |
| Founder | Furukawa Ichibei |
| Headquarters | Tokiwabashi Tower, 6-4,Otemachi 2-chome,Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8322, Japan |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Mitsuyoshi Shibata (Chairman) Keiichi Kobayashi (President) |
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| Revenue |  $ 7.529 billionUSD (FY 2017) (¥ 843.344 billionJPY) (FY 2017) |
| $ 1.136 billionUSD (FY 2017) (¥ 115 billionJPY) (FY 2017) | |
Number of employees |
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| Website | Official website |
| Footnotes / references [1][2] | |
Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. (古河電気工業株式会社,Furukawa Denkikōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japaneseelectric andelectronics equipment company.
The company traces its origins toFurukawa Ichibei who founded Nikko Copper Works, a copper-smelting facility atYokohama in 1884, which became part of Furukuwa Kogyo. A new company; Furukuwa Denki Kogyo, was formed in 1920, when it merged its copper business with its own Yokohoma Wire Manufacturing Company, which it had acquired in 1908.[3] So, the new company was able to combine its businesses of mining, refining, and making copper products, like wire and cable.[4]
Furukawa was a Japanese businessman who founded one of the fifteen largestindustrial conglomerates in Japan, calledFurukawa zaibatsu, to which Furukawa Electric belongs to this day.
The company is listed on the Tokyo stock Exchange and is constituent of theNikkei 225stock index.[5]
Furukawa Electric aidsCERN's experiments on the search for theHiggs boson with itssuperconducting magnetwires.[6] The company's products also includesuperconductivity cables.
As of July 2013 the company has 137 subsidiaries and affiliate companies acrossJapan,Europe,North andSouth America.[7]
In 2025, Furukawa Electric will integrate its global fiber optic cable operations under a new brand: Lightera.[citation needed]
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