Hanwa

Hanwa Co., Ltd. trades in steel, metals and alloys, nonferrous metals, food products, petroleum and chemicals, lumber, machinery, and other products in Japan and internationally. The company's Steel Division sells steel bars, building materials, sheets, pipes, wires, and other steel products; steel shapes; and ferrous raw materials. Its Metal Recycling and Primary Metal Division offers aluminum, copper, zinc, lead, stainless steel, and nickel ingots, as well as ferroalloys of chromium, silicon ore, and manganese; and recycles copper, aluminum cans, ingot, metal materials, and scrap of zinc, lead, tin, and stainless steel. The company's Food Products Division provides seafood products, such as salmon, prawns and shrimp, octopus, mackerel, horse mackerel, herring, capelin, crab, chicken, and others. Its Energy and Living Materials Division offers heavy oil, kerosene, LPG, LNG, industrial gas, bunker oil, gasoline, diesel, lubricating oil, biomass energy, PKS, wood pellets, recycled heavy oil, RPF, discarded tires, discarded building-material chips, raw materials for lubricating oil additives, and chemicals, as well as paper and used paper products to steel, chemicals, and paper and pulp sectors. This division provides synthetic resin raw materials and plastic products that include polyethylene, polypropylene, and polystyrene. The company's Lumber & Plywood Division imports and sells lumber, plywood, and other wood products that include coniferous plywood, laminar and genban, precut, and CAD drawing products, as well as structural and non-structural materials, steel ceiling joists, plaster boards and insulating materials, interior and exterior building materials, and unit reinforcing bars to building material trading companies, building material manufacturers, sales agents, wholesalers, home builders, and other companies. The company was incorporated in 1947 and is headquartered in Osaka, Japan.