Metals

Special Steel

Melted aluminum

The Metals Division considers steel and nonferrous metals as products possessing unique characteristics and functions and strives to offer products optimally suited to the requirements of each user and supplier. Moreover, we actively collaborate with our business partners in developing new materials and processing technologies, as we endeavor to promote innovative businesses that enable win-win relationships with users and suppliers.

In our steel sheet business, Toyota Tsusho deploys its domestic and overseas processing bases as the nucleus of an ordering system that utilizes cutting-edge IT and an efficient logistics structure for delivery control that ensures the most timely delivery of optimal sizes and weights matched to specific applications. Additionally, we undertake a steel blanking business in countries worldwide for processing and delivering irregular-shaped steel sheets.

In the steel bars and tubes and steel construction materials business, we process and sell special steel products and steel tubes in addition to selling steel construction materials essential for buildings, plants and other such structures.

We engage in the nonferrous metals business and have built a global trading structure centered mainly in London and Singapore that plays a central role in reducing the risk of price fluctuations for nonferrous metals. In addition, we undertake a molten aluminum business that contributes to lowering costs and reducing environmental loads. In this manner, we have established an optimal supply structure for nonferrous metals that is continually attuned to conditions in each local region and that supports highly efficient production.

Our steel raw materials businesses give top consideration to the Earth's environment and include a scrap iron recovery and recycling business within plants as well as an end-of-life vehicle (ELV) recycling business. We are redoubling efforts to broaden the scope of these business activities to new spheres beyond metals.