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Company Profile
Sumitomo Electric Europe is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Japanese company Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. Sumitomo Electric Industries has a global reach in five business segments: Automotive, Information & Communications, Electronics, Electric Wire & Cable and Industrial Materials. In 2006/7 worldwide sales exceeded ¥2 Trillion, approximately £10 Billion or US$20 Billion in 2007.
Sumitomo Electric Industries is a consistent innovator in high technology and communications. Milestones include
| 1974 |
Commenced manufacture of optical fibre |
| 1978 |
Delivered worlds' first interactive CATV system |
| 1982 |
Made the worlds' largest synthetic diamond |
| 1986 |
Developed composite material for heat shrinks and substrates |
| 1987 |
Commenced mass production of vehicle anti-lock braking systems |
| 2006 |
First underground superconducting cable connected to a commercial power transmission network |
Within Europe, Sumitomo Electric Industries' subsidiaries
include companies operating in the automotive wiring, hard metal
tools, flexible flat cable and heat shrinkable tube markets
Sumitomo Electric Europe sells a range of products produced by their parent company in Japan. These include optical fibre fusion splicers, fibre optic connectors, optical fibre, optical fibre cable, photo-electron devices, passive optical components, semiconductor wafers and other industrial materials.
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