- Company Name
- SAN-ETSU METALS Co.,Ltd.
- Main Office Address
- 1892 Ota, Tonami-shi, Toyama, 939-1315, Japan
- Representative
- Hiroyuki Tsuriya
- Establishment
- October 3, 2011
- Capital
- 301 million yen
- Employees
- 530
- Main Business
- Brass Rod, Wire and Precision Parts
- Offices
- Tonami Works, Takaoka Works, Shin Nitto Works,
Precision Works, Tokyo Branch, Osaka Branch, Nagoya Branch
- Affiliated Companies
- CK SAN-ETSU Co., Ltd.
CK Metals Ltd.
SAN-ETSU METALS (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
SAN-ETSU Shoji Co., Ltd.
Taiwan San-Etsu Co., Ltd.
- October, 2011
- Transferred into a holding company based on the incorporation-type company split method specified in the Holding Company Act. The newly established “SAN-ETSU METALS Co., Ltd.” succeeded the partial rights and duties related to brass rod, wire and precision part business.
- December, 2011
- The sales of dezincing resistant brass rod with no need of annealing (Z00) started.
- June,2013
- Inherited the manufacturing equipment for reflow tin plated copper wire and special copper alloy wire from Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
- Inherited the plated wire business from Hitachi Cable Precision Co., Ltd. to our Hitachi Works
- November,2013
- Takaoka Works certified for ISO/TS16949
- December, 2014
- Hitachi Works was shifted to Takaoka Works.
Hitachi Works was closed.
- January, 2015
- Taiwan San-Etsu Co., Ltd. was established.
- December, 2017
- Updated ISO / TS 16949 to IATF 16949 at Takaoka Works.
< Former SAN-ETSU METALS Co., Ltd. >
- December,1937
- Sakane Copper and Brass Co., Ltd. was established in Edogawa, Tokyo
- December,1943
- Changed the name to Kanto Tsushin Metals Co., Ltd.
- June,1945
- Moved to Takaoka-city, Toyama-prefecture due to war-damages
- May,1947
- Changed the name to San-Etsu Metals Industry Co., Ltd.
- September,1951
- Became a JIS permitted plant
- September,1984
- Merged with Hokuriku Kinzoku Co., Ltd. (current Tonami Works) and changed the name to SAN-ETSU METALS Co., Ltd.
- December,1988
- San-Etsu Seiko Co., Ltd. was established and made a full-scale made into forging and machining field
- December,1993
- Went public on Second Section of the Nagoya Stock Exchange
- December,1994
- Dalian San-Etsu Precision Parts Co., Ltd. was established in Dalian, China
- February,1995
- Operation started with the 3,350-ton indirect extruder
- December,1998
- Certified for ISO9002
- April,2000
- The brass Wire business of Sumitomo Metal Mining co., Ltd. transferred to SAN-ETSU METALS
- November
- Launched the new alloy “super lead free brass rod (development code BZ3)” into market
- February,2002
- Established “Dalian Bonded Area San-Etsu Metals Co., Ltd.” in Dalian Bonded Zone to import and sell brass rod
- October
- Absorbed San-Etsu Seiko Co., Ltd. and changed the name to Precision Works
- April,2004
- Certified for ISO9001 at company-wide level
- January,2005
- Established San-Etsu Metals (Shanghi) Co., Ltd. in Shanghai, China to import and sell brass rod
- April
- Certified for ISO14001 at company-wide level
- December
- Dalian San-Etsu Precision Parts Co., Ltd. in China certified for ISO9001
- October,2007
- Inherited all business of Shin Nitto Kinzoku Co., Ltd.
- April,2010
- SAN-ETSU METALS (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. established
- May,2011
- A new Precision Works completed