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Company Milestones
- 1901 Sumitomo Steel Foundry
established
- 1912 Steel tube factory constructed
at Sumitomo Copper Plant (The first private
company in
Japan that started manufacturing cold-drawn
seamless steel pipes.)
- 1913 Sumitomo Copper Plant
renamed Sumitomo Copper Works
- 1915 Sumitomo Steel Foundry
restructured to establish Sumitomo Casting Works,
Ltd.
- 1919 Amagasaki factory established
at Sumitomo Copper Works
- 1920 Sumitomo Casting Works,
Ltd. Renamed Sumitomo Steel Works, Ltd.
- 1921 Sumitomo Copper Works
renamed Sumitomo Goshi-Kaisya Copper Works
- 1926 Sumitomo Goshi-Kaisya
Copper Works separated from Sumitomo Goshi-Kaisya
to
established Sumitomo Steel Tube & Copper
Works, Ltd.
- 1935 Sumitomo Metal Industries,
Ltd. established (Sumitomo Steel Tube &
Copper Works, Ltd.
and Sumitomo Steel Works, Ltd. merged)
- 1942 Wakayama Steel Works
established
- 1945 Sumitomo Metal Industries,
Ltd. renamed Fuso Metal Industries, Ltd.
- 1949 [Corporate Foundation]
Shin-Fuso Metal Industries, Ltd., established
- 1949 Listed on stock exchanges
at Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka
- 1952 Shin-Fuso Metal Industries,
Ltd. once again renamed Sumitomo Metal Industries,
Ltd.
- 1968 Kashima Steel Works
established
- 1980 Kainan Steel Tube Works
established (Merged with Sumitomo Kainan Steel
Tube Co., Ltd.)
- 1987 [Corporate Inauguration]
Sumitomo Copper Plant established
- 1988 Kainan Steel Tube Works
integrated into Wakayama Steel Works
- 1997 New Seamless Mill started
operation
- 1999 New Steel Making Plant
started operation
- 2002 Shifted to the Internal
Company System
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