Our Advantages
The following explains how we provide reliable solutions leveraging our abundant human resources and how we contribute to the growth of our customers’ businesses.
Mitsubishi Materials Trading demonstrates another level of strength and provides more value to customers by combining three resources—its strengths in human resources, as a group and in its experience—with three challenges which have recently been set aimed at the acquisition of greater capabilities in terms of listening to customers, circulating resources and procuring materials.
Our strengths are in human resources, in being a group, and in our experience. They enable us to provide solid value to customers.
Mitsubishi Materials Trading will leverage its advantages to deliver solid value to customers by combining three resources, specifically, its strengths in human resources, as a group and in its experience.
Strengths in human resources
The strength of having a large pool of well-balanced human resources
In a balanced manner, we develop and assign specialists in specific areas and generalists with multidisciplinary knowledge. Many of our human resources are familiar with many different products and technologies and understand the facts involved in our customers' industries. It is our human resources that enable us to confidently respond to the needs of our customers.
Because we are a trading firm without factories or Machinery/equipment, we continually work to enhance the value of our human resources based on the idea that people are a company’s resources.
Strength as a group
Our strength as a group consisting of about 100 companies led by Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
Mitsubishi Materials Group deals in all kinds of materials, including non-ferrous metals such as copper, carbide tools, ceramics and silicon.
As the one and only trading company of Mitsubishi Materials Group, we deliver products and technologies of the nearly 100 Group companies to customers with greater speed and at more reasonable prices.
Strength of experience
The strength of the company's experience accumulated over the 70 years since the company was founded.
Since our founding in 1947, we have refined our strengths in material procurement and our technologies for processing the materials. Also, we have continued to learn what we should do to build trust with our customers and live up to their expectations.
We have an environment that enables us to provide the high-quality services unique to a traditional materials trading company based on our accumulated experience.
Incorporate new strengths and aim for greater heights.
In addition to the three resources above, we will take on three challenges that we have recently set, so that we will become more capable of providing greater value to customers.
Ability to listen
Ability to propose solutions to challenges faced in co-creation
Our sales personnel are strengthening their ability to listen so that they can identify potential problems that even customers are unaware of and then identify solutions.
Our sales representative, when visiting customers, spend 70% of their time listening and 30% making business proposals. With this approach, we have established a style of sales activities in which we co-create solutions to customer's problems by listening to them carefully. We will enhance sales skills group-wide while also receiving training from outside consultants.
Ability to circulate resources
Ability to design resource-circulation plans
Under the theme that the Mitsubishi Materials Group advocates, the designing of resource-circulation, we recycle unnecessary resources and materials for different purposes to make them work for society, instead of just disposing of them.
Leveraging the huge network that is unique to Mitsubishi Materials Trading, a company with about 2,000 client companies and about 2,500 suppliers, we will build a new business scheme from an SDG-oriented perspective. For example, waste materials rejected by Company A could be processed and given to Company B.
In April 2025, the sales division of Materials Eco-Refining, a company with an established track record and knowledge in the domestic and global collection of e-scrap and other kinds of recycled metal materials supplied to copper smelters, was integrated into Mitsubishi Materials Trading. We expect continued growth, capitalizing on the synergies with our overseas network infrastructure.
Procurement capabilities
Ability to globally procure materials
Currently, we have eight overseas bases, mainly in Asia, and are actively engaged in global transactions of non-ferrous metals.
Copper-based products are drawing attention worldwide as a raw material that is an indispensable part of the next generation of social infrastructure. Joining forces with Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, we will maximize the use of the infrastructure of our overseas locations and efficiently expand our global network.