Description
Hitachi Metals, Ltd. manufacture and sell specialty steel products, functional components and equipment, magnetic materials and applications/power electronics materials, wires and cables, and related products in Japan, the United States, China, the rest of Asia, Europe, and internationally. The company offers molds and tool steels; rolls for steel mills; plastic-molding machine cylinders and parts for steel-frame structures and processing of related components; turbine wheels for turbo charger; materials for use in vanes and engine valves; metallic interconnector materials; soft magnetic alloys; metal-injection molding titanium sintered and cobalt optical communications parts; aerospace devices; corrosion, wear, and heat resistant alloys; specialty steel-alloys for electronic products; and metal additive products. It also provides automotive castings, including aluminum battery cases for electric vehicles; aluminum motor housings; engine/exhaust components; diesel particulate filters; and cast-iron products, as well as piping components, magnetic materials, nanocrystalline soft magnetic materials, and other distinctive materials, and ceramic components. In addition, the company offers flexible, high-frequency coaxial, industrial robot, and rolling stock cables; rolling stock wire harness; electronic wires and cables; bus bars; fiber optic rotary joints; contact, magnet, and electric discharge machining wires; medical cables and tubes; and catheter and endoscope tubing products. Further, it provides automotive components, including harnesses for use in electric parking brakes; electric mechanical brake harnesses; brake hoses; power cable harness for air conditioner electric compressor; active ABS wheel-speed sensors, ABS cables, and torque sensor coils. The company was founded in 1910 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Hitachi Metals, Ltd. is a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd.