Sumitomo Metals is commended by BP for its safety management in the provision of super duplex stainless steel and carbon steel seamless line pipes for BP’s North Sea project.
Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd. and Sumitomo Corporation received its first order from China (amounting to 1 billion yen) to supply steam generator tubes for the Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant in China.
Through customer’s recognition that Sumitomo is synonymous with best quality pipe, we have dedicated ourselves to supply the highest possible quality pipes and tubes to every industrial sector such as energy development, automobile, chemical, construction and environmental contribution.
Sumitomo consolidated its management of the company to counteract the earnings downturn in the postwar depression with measures such as closing down or scaling back overseas operations.
The springboard of Sumitomo Electrics development was its unrelenting drive to acquire and apply advanced technology during its early period as it worked to create value-added products from a basic resource: copper.
Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. was born from the fusion of two companieseach of which was ahead of its timeforming a strong foundation for progress.