Steel, Materials & Plant
The Steel, Materials & Plant segment covers a full range of iron and steel products, energy solutions, chemicals, industrial plant and infrastructure facilities, ships, geotech, wood processing, and visual solutions. Across a wide variety of operations, highly specialized staff uphold Kanematsu’s commitment to supplying and developing high value added and environmentally friendly products.
The Steel, Materials & Plant Division develops project-forming businesses that contribute to regional economic development,
beginning with infrastructure projects in various countries. Accordingly, the division focuses on off- shore investment
programs that support globalized production by Japanese manufacturers and concentrates the strengths of each Group
company in order to propose new environmental and energy solutions.
We are developing high-value-added products with customers in areas that include environmentally friendly
items in the steel and chemical sectors as well as pharmaceuticals and health food ingredients that help counter the effects of Japan’s aging society.
Eiji Kan
Senior Managing Executive Officer
COO Steel, Materials & Plant
Key Businesses and Locations
Business Environment
- Changes in the global energy market structure, including declining demand for fossil fuels
- Growing global awareness of environmental problems, as seen in GX efforts and the SDGs
- Diversifying consumer needs and behavior patterns
- Accelerate initiatives in renewable energy businesses
- Expand business involving more environmentally friendly high-value-added products
- Advance GX to both strengthen customer relationships and respond to changes in the business environment by raising customer satisfaction
- Further changes to market structures and the realization of geopolitical risks due to trade problem intensification
- Temporary personnel shortages due to accelerating business investment
- Changes to the business environment due to tightening environmental regulations or other factors arising from the international shift toward lower carbon emissions
- Mitigate the risk of trading right advantages being weakened by cultivating new markets, products, and trading partners
- Expand business in high-performance products and products made to proprietary standards to reduce risk related to trade problems
- Provide education and opportunities for employees to gain experience, mainly through personnel exchanges with affiliated companies in and outside Japan
- Create new businesses that contribute to environmental preservation, including CO2 reduction
Three Value Propositions Informed by Medium- to Long-Term Outlook and Groupwide Management Goals
(Key Capital)
- Intellectual capital
- Global value chain expertise via overseas locations and relationships with business partners
- Human capital
- Human resources with expertise in value chains across industries and the ability to create businesses
- Social and relationship capital
- Longstanding relationships of trust with influential business partners across industries
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Group companies
- Japan
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Kanematsu Sustech Corporation Manufacture and sales of home-construction materials; Ground inspection services and improvement work; Sales and installation of security equipment Saitama Yaei Industrial Co., Ltd. Iron industry, sales of iron construction products and industrial machinery, contracting and execution of civil engineering and construction works, etc. Kanematsu Petroleum Corp. Sales of petroleum products and LPG Kanematsu Yuso Co., Ltd. Delivery and storage of petroleum products Kanematsu Chemicals Corp. Domestic sales, import, and export of chemical products, pharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical ingredients, and functional food materials Kanematsu Wellness Corp. Sales of health foods and provision of medical information
- South Korea
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AJUSTEEL Co., Ltd. Steel processing and fabrication
- Vietnam
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ATAD Steel Structure Corp. Design, manufacture, transportation and install various steel structures
- U.S.A.
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Steel Service Oilfield Tubular, Inc. Sales of steel materials for natural resource excavation Benoit Premium Threading, LLC Steel tubing fabrication; Manufacture and sales of steel tubing-related parts