title: Nippon Light Metal
text: # Nippon Light Metal
  
  Nippon Light Metal Holdings Company, Ltd. (日本軽金属ホールディングス株式会社, Nihon Keikinzoku Hōrudingusu Kabushiki Kaisha) is a Japanese multinational public industrial holding company that through its subsidiaries is mainly engaged in the manufacture and sale of aluminum and chemical products. It is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the Nikkei 225.
  
  In 1939 Nippon Light Metal Co. was incorporated jointly by Furukawa Electric and Tokyo Dento (one of the predecessors of the Tokyo Electric Power Company) to start the aluminum smelting and in 2012 Nippon Light Metal Holdings Co., a pure holding company for the former, was established.
  
  ## Business segments and products
  
  The Company operates in four business segments:
  
  * Aluminum Ingot and Chemicals
     * alumina, aluminum hydroxide, chemical goods, aluminum bullion, aluminum alloys
  * Aluminum Sheet and Extrusions
     * aluminum sheets and aluminum extrusion products
  * Fabricated Products and Others
     * processed aluminum products including electronic materials, industrial components, landscape related products
     * transportation-related products including van, truck and trailer bodies, automobile parts
     * panels for freezers and refrigerators, solar panel frames, electrode sheets for aluminum electrolytic capacitors, aluminum kegs, panels for clean rooms as well as carbon products (carbon blocks); this once included the Donvier ice cream maker
  * Aluminum Foil, Powder and Paste
     * aluminum foil for electrolytic capacitors, antennas for IC cards/tags
     * solar panel backsheets, conductive inks for solar cell electrodes
  