Metals & Mineral Resources Division
Message from the COO
- Managing Executive Officer, COO, Metals & Mineral Resources Division
- Shoji Kuwayama
The Metals & Mineral Resources Division seeks to expand earnings through business investments and trading operations throughout the value chain. In upstream sectors, we are involved in areas such as metals and coal mine development and smelting operations, as well as in iron and steel products, electronic materials, recycling and other downstream sectors. Our operations also extend to innovative fields such as new energy development.
Going forward, the division will continue to operate and promote profitable projects where it can leverage Marubeni’s strengths, and extend and develop its trading activities, from a medium- to long-term perspective.
Sources of Strength
• Business investments that enable substantial management input
In the mine development sector, most notably copper and coal, the division’s holdings grant it significant influence over how projects are managed. Today, the division is working with business partners to realize strategies for delivering stable earnings, and is reinforcing frameworks that help meet users’ supply stability needs.
• Top-class trading activities in many industry sectors
The division boasts one of the best transaction volumes in every product category and region, including coal, copper cathodes, and aluminum ingots. With the addition of the iron and steel products business from fiscal 2010, the division will organically link market data spanning raw materials to finished products in a bid to create greater added value and expand transaction volume.
• Environmental, new technology, recycling and downstream sectors
The division has businesses and trading activities that form its business base in each sector related to underground coal gasification, upgrading low-grade coal, metals recycling, iron and steel products, and non-ferrous and light metal products. Added to that, it is building strategic alliances in these areas with companies that have related technologies. In tandem, the division is pursuing new business and trading opportunities in new technology fields and innovative sectors.
News & Topics
Acquisition of Mining Usufruct Right of a New Copper Mine in Chile
Production Capacity Expansion at Australia's Lake Vermont Coal Mine
Start of Copper Concentrates Shipments at the Esperanza Copper Mine in Chile
