Furukawa Denshi to Expand Environment Friendly Electronics Sales

Furukawa Company Group accelerates development and sales of environment friendly electronic materials. Furukawa Denshi, which is one of Furukawa’s subsidiaries to produce electronic materials and components headed in Fukushima, Japan, plans to double the sales of line filter cores and coils by appealing the products to hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), electric vehicles (EVs) and energy saving home appliances. Furukawa Denshi also aims to enter EV radiator sheet market with its originally developed aluminium nitride ceramics filer.

Furukawa Denshi develops coil core materials of iron-silicon-aluminium, iron-silicon, iron-silicon-boron and other alloys in cooperation with Japanese powder metallurgy product makers. The firm supplies these materials to affiliate coil core makers in Taiwan and China, and then the cores are processed into line filter coils in China. The coils are mainly used for electric power steering and other automotive applications. Furukawa Denshi expects the core and coil sales will reach approximately 2 billion yen in future compared with planned 1 billion yen in fiscal 2010 ended in March 2011.

The firm also aims to raise aluminium nitride ceramics to a core business in a medium term. The firm started sample supply of radiator sheet made of aluminium nitride ceramics filer to LED makers and semiconductor manufacturing equipment makers. The firm eyes the product supply to EV related applications in future.

Furukawa Denshi is the world largest producer of high purity metallic arsenic used for gallium arsenide. The firm’s three core businesses are coils, high purity metallic arsenic and crystalline materials including gallium phosphide and scintillator. These three businesses accounted for 90% in Furukawa Denshi’s annual revenue in fiscal 2009.