Material Products
- Battery Materials Business
- Crystal Materials Business
- Powder Materials Business
- Package Materials Business
- Catalyst Business
- Construction Materials Business
Battery materials
The tide in the automobile industry is currently turning towards electrification with hybrid and electric vehicles, and cathode material (the material that the positive electrode in a battery is made from) is one of the
battery materials that facilitates this electrification.
Sumitomo Metal Mining mainly produces battery cathode material for vehicles, and it maintains a high market share globally thanks to its technical capabilities and quality control system that enable stable quality mass production of
cathode material which has a high nickel content and often tends to be unstable.
Crystal materials
Crystal materials produced by the Sumitomo Metal Mining Group include lithium tantalate (LT) and lithium niobate (LN) that are used in filters for communication devices such as smartphones to prevent noise and interference as well as optical isolators and faraday rotators that support fiber optic environments, and these materials are being increasingly utilized to fulfill essential roles in a society witnessing a massive growth in the volume of communication and rapid digitalization.
Powder materials
Thanks to their originality, the Sumitomo Metal Mining Group’s powder materials continue to grow in terms of application and potential. These materials include our own original CWO® (cesium tungsten oxide) and other near infrared ray absorbing materials, thick film pastes that are used as electrodes in compact electronic components, resistor elements, and insulators and can be provided to fit the intended use, and fine grain metallic powder products produced from our outstanding powder synthesis technology based on wet synthesis.
Package materials
The Sumitomo Metal Mining Group offers package material such as copper-clad polyimide films and printed wiring boards. The copper-clad polyimide films, S’PERFLEX, incorporate refined high-level metallizing technology and achieve the high-quality characteristics demanded of COF for LCD panels. The printed wiring boards achieve high-quality at a low cost with their foundation of a long track record in circuit boards for vehicles, and a policy of integrated in-process production system.
Catalyst Business
Catalysts perform an important role in chemical processes for products by acting as a promoter that brings about a variety of chemical reactions. In the Sumitomo Metal Mining Group, N.E. Chemcat Corporation manufactures automobile exhaust gas purification catalysts and chemical catalysts, while Nippon Ketjen Co., Ltd. manufactures hydrotreating catalysts that are used in the desulfurization process in oil refining.
Construction materials
Sumitomo Metal Mining was the first company in Japan to introduce the technology for the use of Siporex, which is a construction material that appears in a variety of settings from skyscrapers and factories to commercial facilities and houses and is used for external walls, room partitioning walls, roofs, floors, fireproof coatings, and in many other components of buildings.
