Business

Steel Distribution Professionals
That Connect Businesses

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  • Network

    Our solid global business foundation and vast operations network span every region of the world, making us a partner capable of delivering all the functions, information and other key assets our customers require to succeed in their business endeavors.

  • Business Management

    We engage in a diverse range of businesses in Japan and overseas. That includes steel processing businesses such as service center business or plate cutting; high-spec processing business to meet requirement from customers such as pipe threading or accessory manufacturing. As a result, we provide a superlative supply chain that ensures high-value-added services.

  • Logistics

    We integrate the transportation know-how, robust infrastructure and solid services of all MISI Group companies, and have all the right people and support functions in the right places. This is critical to ensuring the optimal distribution so critical in today’s accelerating wave of globalization, and to effectively realizing the streamlined “just-in-time” supply network our customers demand.

  • Risk Management

    Our groups of experts specializing in the legal, social infrastructure, taxation, trade and other types of risk encountered around the world identify specific vulnerabilities. Based on their findings, we furnish advice and proposals on key points of scrutiny, optimal business models and other support to help customers expand their commercial operations.

  • IT Solution

    By mobilizing the vast pool of business data and constantly evolving IT advances for which MISI possesses, we progressively envision new services that address the emerging demands of the digital age. This contributes to stronger overall supply chain functions, enhanced market competitiveness and greater business efficiency.

  • Financial Support

    Based on our stellar creditworthiness and extensive sources of funding, we merge sound information gathering and analysis capabilities that leverage our domestic and overseas networks with steadfast credit management functions. This topflight combination supports proposals of the soundest and most efficient financial plans for each customer.

Divisions

Steel Product Construction, Civil Engineering, Energy and Shipbuilding

Divisions: Iron & Steel Division-I, Tubular Products Division

We trade various steel materials and develop related businesses for infrastructure fields such as construction, civil engineering, shipbuilding, construction machinery, railways, and the energy and plant engineering/maintenance industries.

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Iron & Steel Division-I

Stable Supply of Steel to Build World Infrastructure

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Stable Supply of Steel to Build World Infrastructure

Iron & Steel Division-I

Product Lines
Plates, bars, shapes, rails, pipe, piles, other structural steel, slabs, billets, blooms, other semi-finished products, and clad steel
Strategic Partner for Top Global Manufacturers in Shipbuilding, Heavy Electric Equipment, Construction Machinery and Infrastructure Facilities

lron & Steel Division-l supplies wide range of steel products used in shipbuilding, plants, construction and industrial machinery, infrastructure facilities and many other key fields in Japan and overseas. By leveraging our connection with our processing and sales bases, we satisfy the diverse needs of our customers in steel plate cutting and molding, inventory management, transport and other key sectors.

Supplying Steel Products to SDG-Related Fields

We are a major supplier of steel products used to make railway tracks and bridges, construction machinery that are mission-critical for resource development, offshore structures and fields that are related to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which now draw global attention. For SDG-related uses, we furnish steel products and engage in product processing to proving tests for floating offshore wind turbines conducted in Japan. We will continue to contribute to the advanced initiatives made in the field of global energy, both domestically and internationally. We also export high-quality rails with especially high wear resistance for use in overseas mine railways.

Tubular Products Division

Designing the Energy Business to Realize
a Carbon-Neutral World

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a Carbon-Neutral World

Tubular Products Division

Product Lines
OCTG, line pipe, clad steel pipe, structural pipe, ductile iron pipe, specialty pipe and tubes, general piping, mechanical structural tubes, stainless steel pipe, etc.
Playing a Role in the Stable Supply of Energy
Transporting Energy from Earth to Consumer

The Tubular Products Division contributes to the stable and efficient operations of its customers in energy development, civil engineering and construction, machinery manufacturing, and other major industries by supplying all varieties of steel pipe and incidental services. In addition to oil and natural gas development, MISI focuses on fields such as renewable energy and carbon capture and storage, contributing to the coming eco-friendly carbon-neutral world.

Providing Integrated Management Services for Oil and Gas Field Extraction

Crude oil and natural gas resources often lie thousands of meters beneath the Earth’s surface. MISI provides globally integrated management services, contributing to oil and gas development. This platform includes recommending optimal materials for use in oil country tubular goods (OCTGs), as well as the procurement of OCTGs that meet the needs of specific excavation plans and incidental services that include storage, processing, inspections and repairs.

Support Massive Infrastructure Projects Like Oil and Gas Pipelines

Pipelines link sites producing oil and gas to consumption markets. Laid from ocean floors and mountainous districts, these pipelines form mammoth infrastructures that often span distances of several thousand kilometers. MISI integrates the procurement, financing and logistics of supplying high-performance steel pipe to local sites, capably supporting optimal energy transport and routing.

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Steel Sheet (Domestic & Overseas), Automotive, Electrical Machinery and Containers

Divisions: Iron & Steel Division-II, Iron & Steel Division-III, Automotive Steel Products Division

We trade steel sheets and its semi-finished products for steel manufacturers and distributors, steel sheets for the electrical machinery/housing equipment/construction materials/container industries, various steel products for the automobile industry, and develop related businesses.

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Iron & Steel Division-II

A Powerhouse of Steel Sheets Global Trade and Tinplate Supply

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A Powerhouse of Steel Sheets Global Trade and Tinplate Supply

Iron & Steel Division-II

Product Lines
Slabs, hot-rolled steel sheets, cold-rolled steel sheets, coated steel sheets, tinplate, tin-free steel
Our Firm Sales Network Across the Globe

The Overseas Steel Sheets Department specializes in global trade of steel sheets. Taking full advantage of our global network of customers, branches and partners, we pursue to be a top player in transaction volume. Our diverse investment overseas also strengthens our value chain, of which one significant model being our integrated supply chain in Thailand, which covers from hot rolled steel sheet production to steel sheet processing within the country.

Leader of Tinplate and Tin-Free Steel Trading

Tin Mill Products Department specializes in material supply to container industries in Japan and globally. As an industry leader in transaction volume both domestically and export-wise, we are a trusted partner from both customers and steel mills. In Japan, our tin plate business reaches beyond the mere supply of materials and provides one-stop operations up until printing and can manufacturing.

Iron & Steel Division-III

Maximizing Processing Functions to Add Value to Steel Sheet Products for a Broad Range of Applications

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Maximizing Processing Functions to Add Value to Steel Sheet Products for a Broad Range of Applications

Iron & Steel Division-III

Product Lines
Hot-rolled steel sheets, cold-rolled steel sheets, coated steel sheets, electrical steel sheets. stainless steel. titanium, copper alloy tubes, stainless steel clad plates, and various new materials
Enhancing the Coil Center Business and Steel Distribution Functions to Better Respond to Customer Needs

Iron & Steel Division-III supplies steel sheets and stainless steel products to a wide range of industrial sectors closely linked to everyday life. Examples include domestic consumer electronics, household equipment, steel furniture, onboard components for vehicles, railroad cars and more. Taking full advantage of the processing capacity and networks that MISI subsidiaries offer, we supply customers both in Japan and overseas with topflight high-valued-added steel products.

Global Sales of High-Performance Products in Diversified Fields

We supply high-performance stainless steel, titanium and nickel-alloy products possessing high corrosion resistance, heat resistance, strength and other attributes to meet needs in diversified fields worldwide. These products excel in the harsh environments and conditions faced by core industries producing aircraft, ships, vehicles, semiconductors, batteries, exhaust systems, seawater desalination systems, floodgates and other crucial products.

Automotive Steel Products Division

Supporting Global Automobile Production through Meticulous Service

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Supporting Global Automobile Production through Meticulous Service

Automotive Steel Products Division

Product Lines
Automotive steel sheet (hot-rolled steel sheet, cold-rolled steel sheet and coated steel sheet), and materials used to produce the full scope of automobiles, construction machinery and industrial machinery (including specialty steel, wire rod, stainless steel and aluminum)
Strengthening Trading Company Functions　　—Promote DX, Raise Customer Satisfaction

By promoting digital transformation (DX) designed to optimize supply chain management focused on existing processing bases (steel service centers) in Japan and overseas, we provide top-caliber service to all customers.

New Business Fields　—Creating New Functions

As epitomized by the vision of future mobility known as CASE (connected, autonomous, shared, electric), the automobile industry is in a period of great change. To address the needs of this dynamic new age, MISI organized a company-wide work unit, the Next-Generation Mobility Infrastructure Business Development Team, to actively explore emerging business fields. Spirited initiatives are likewise under way to boost sales of aluminum and other new products, expand MISI contributions in specialty steel precision machining, and dynamically evolve on other essential fronts.

Toward a Carbon-Neutral World 　—Realizing a Richer Social Fabric

MISI is a principal partner in electrification, weight reduction and other strategies today’s automakers are pursuing. The ultimate aim of these collaborations is to make lasting contributions to achieving a genuine carbon-neutral society over the years to come.

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Overseas Subsidiaries

Overseas Subsidiaries: Marubeni-Itochu Steel America Inc. (MISA)、Marubeni-Itochu Steel Europe GmbH. (MISEA)、Marubeni-Itochu Steel Pte.Ltd. (MISP)、Marubeni-Itochu Steel (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.

Overseas affiliates possessing the same basic functions MISI does advance trade of wide-ranging steel products in various regions and nations and spearhead related business operations deeply rooted in their respective areas.

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Marubeni-Itochu Steel America Inc. (MISA)

MISA operates eight sales offices in the United States, two in Canada, and two in Mexico. Our subsidiaries include ClarkDietrich Building Systems, the industry’s leading manufacturer of steel framing. We are moving to expand our operations in both residential and nonresidential construction—two fields projected to enjoy growth.

Marubeni-Itochu Steel Europe GmbH. (MISEA)

Europe is in the midst of a major upheaval characterized by the realignment of major steel manufacturers, robust responses to climate change, and other dynamic developments. Africa is sustaining solid growth on the strength of its increasing population, although that is being undermined by foreign currency shortages. Both markets therefore present high potential and risk. Marshaling the strong foundations it has built up in these markets over the years, MISEA is seeking renewed progress with an eye on the future after instituting changes and carrying on the crucial quest to excel on the two pivotal fronts of trade and investment.

Marubeni-Itochu Steel Pte.Ltd. (MISP)

Due to the economic growth of ASEAN countries, steel consumption is growing and local steel companies are continuing to show remarkable growth. MISP is shifting from transactions focused on importing products from outside the region to transactions based on local production and local consumption, and focusing on distribution within the ASEAN region, which is expected to continue to expand. We will pour more effort into develop new local customers and invest in other promising growth fields.

Marubeni-Itochu Steel (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.

Once a net importer of steel, China now ranks as the world’s largest steel producer. That robust growth reaches across China’s borders, steadily expanding into Asia and other regions. Dynamic and ongoing changes affecting China’s steel industry include steelmaker realignment and consolidation; the transition to smarter, more advanced production technology; and expanding demand related to China’s Belt and Road Initiative. We are channeling major energies into partnering with our branches and subsidiaries throughout China, gearing up to win a larger piece of steel demand in this massive market.

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