KOBELCO’s Business Activities

Creating “Distinctive Products & Technologies” in Diverse Fields - The Eight Business Segments of the KOBELCO Group

Achieving maximum synergies as the only producer of both steel and aluminum.

Steel wire rods and bars

Steel sheets

Steel billets

Aluminum rolled products

Aluminum castings and forgings, etc.

One of the leading producers in Japan, contributing to the weight reduction of cars, planes, trains, ships and more.

Processed products

Copper rolled products

Kobe Steel’s Welding Business offers total welding solutions that combine welding materials, robotic welding systems, welding technology and more, with the aim of becoming No. 1 in Asia as “the world’s most reliable welding solutions company.”

Welding materials

Welding systems

Testing and inspection

Kobe Steel’s Machinery Business offers a wide range of products, including industrial machinery, compressors and energy equipment. Kobe Steel creates distinctive products to meet global demand in key growth fields, such as the automotive, environmental and energy industries, while also striving to build optimal production networks and strengthen its manufacturing capabilities.

Industrial machinery

Compressors

The Engineering Business has engineering capabilities that combine and integrate original, industry-leading processes, technologies, and expertise. Kobe Steel contributes to society by providing valueadded solutions that flexibly meet a wide variety of customer needs.

Plants

Social infrastructure

Chemical and foodstuff

Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. strives to create further value and build affluent societies as a construction machinery manufacturer whose strength, through management integration with Kobelco Cranes Co., Ltd. on April 1, 2016, lies in having two areas of expertise: excavators and cranes. In addition to current environmental technologies for low fuel consumption and noise, the company will meet customer needs through improved hybrid technology, use of ICT, and development of new products and services to satisfy diverse societal demands. The company is accelerating construction of a global system to meet the needs of different regions and applications, by establishing a network of local subsidiaries and distributors in locations worldwide.

Civil engineering and construction machinery

Environmental recycling machinery

Crawler cranes

Wheel cranes

Our power supply business began in fiscal 2002 and contributes to the stable supply of electricity for the region.

We are also currently pursuing plans to construct additional plants.

Electric power supply

The KOBELCO Group pursues an extensive range of businesses that are being continuously refined through repeated selection and concentration. Combining technologies and services from these different businesses in order to identify new value is integral to the identity of the KOBELCO Group.

Real estate development, construction, sales, brokering, remodeling; leasing, building management; condominium management; special alloys and other new materials (target materials, etc.); material analysis and testing; high-pressure gas cylinder manufacturing; superconducting products; general trading company