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, shapes, sheets, pipes, tubes, wires, plates, building materials, and ferrous raw materials; aluminum sheets, extrusion molding materials, and processed aluminum products; and automotive steel parts. 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, zinc, lead, tin, and stainless steel scraps. The company's Food Products Division provides seafood products, such as salmon, prawns and shrimp, octopus, mackerel, horse mackerel, herring roe, 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 also 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. Hanwa Co., Ltd. was incorporated in 1947 and is headquartered in Osaka, Japan.

Our mission is to create unique value and capabilities to our customers by utilizing our accumulated expertise and experience while embracing the challenge of change and addressing our customers’ needs.

Our vision is to become a major trading partner of the world and to be trusted by our customers as a reliable partner.

Hanwa has been recognized as the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2019 Japan Quality Award and the 2018 Japan Pacific Star Award for “Outstanding Organization in Risk Management and Compliance”.