Furukawa Electric

Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
古河電気工業株式会社

Type	Public K.K.
Traded as	: Nikkei 225 Component
Industry	Electrical equipment
Founded	Yokohama, Japan (1884; 133 years ago (1884))
Founder	Furukawa Ichibei
Headquarters	Marunouchi Nakadori Bldg., 2-3, Marunouchi 2-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8322, Japan
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Masao Yoshida (Chairman) Mitsuyoshi Shibata (President)
Products	Automotive systems Electronics equipment Energy and industrial products Metal and aluminum products
Revenue	$ 9.837 billion USD (FY 2012) (¥ 924.717 billion JPY) (FY 2012)
Net income	$ 38.053 million USD (FY 2012) (¥ 3.577 billion JPY) (FY 2012)
Number of employees	3,971 (non-consolidated) 50,342 (consolidated) (as of March 31, 2013)
Website	Official website
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$ 9.837 billion USD (FY 2012)

$ 38.053 million USD (FY 2012)

Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. (古河電気工業株式会社, Furukawa Denkikōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha^?) is a Japanese electric and electronics equipment company.

The company was founded by Furukawa Ichibei in 1884 in Yokohama when a copper-smelting facility and a wire manufacturing factory were established. Furukawa was a Japanese businessman who founded one of the fifteen largest industrial conglomerates in Japan, called Furukawa zaibatsu, to which Furukawa Electric belongs to this day.

The company is listed on the Tokyo stock Exchange and is constituent of the Nikkei 225 .

Furukawa Electric aids CERN's experiments on the search for the Higgs boson with its superconducting magnet wires. The company's products also include superconductivity cables.