JX Advanced Metals
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Native name | JX金属 |
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Romanized name | JX Kinzoku |
| Formerly | Nippon Mining Holdings, Inc. |
| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Mining |
| Founded | 27 September 2002 |
| Headquarters | |
| Parent | Eneos Holdings |
| Website | https://www.jx-nmm.com/english/ |
JX Advanced Metals Corporation (JX金属, JX Kinzoku) is a Japanese non-ferrous metal company under the ownership of ENEOS Holdings. Its activities include resource development, smelting, refining, and recycling. The firm holds a global market share of approximately 60% in sputtering targets, a key material used in semiconductor manufacturing.[1]
The origins of JX Advanced Metals trace back to the 1905 opening of the Hitachi Mine by Fusanosuke Kuhara. In 1929, Nissan Group’s mining division split off to form Japan Mining Co., which later evolved through industry reorganisations to become part of Nippon Mining Holdings (Nippon Mining Holdings, Inc.).[2] In 2010, Nippon Mining Holdings and Nippon Oil merged to create JX Holdings, now known as ENEOS Holdings, bringing what would become JX Advanced Metals under its umbrella.[3]
The company is scheduled to go public with an expected market capitalisation of over 800 billion yen in March 2025.[4] The company previously owned the Caserones Mine in Chile as a primary source of copper but sold 70% of its interest in it to Lundin Mining to focus more on semiconductor-related products. The company owns interests in other copper mines in Chile as well.[5][6]
Products and services
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- Electronic materials and chemical processing
- Copper foils
- Sputtering targets
- Compound semiconductors
- High-purity metals (silicon, iron, nickel, copper, etc.)
- Surface treatment agents
- Copper powder
- Copper sulphate
- Copper alloy rolled products
- Precision stamped products
- Precision plated products
See also
[edit]Other Japanese non-ferrous metals companies
- Sumitomo Metal Mining
- Toho Zinc
- Dowa Holdings
- Nittetsu Mining
- FURUKAWA
- Mitsui Mining and Smelting
- Mitsubishi Materials
Key figures
Sources
[edit]- ^ "JX金属が上場申請､時価総額7000億円 東京メトロ上回る". 日本経済新聞 (in Japanese). 2024-10-08. Retrieved 2025-02-12.
- ^ "【茨城新聞】JX金属 上場申請 東証 脱炭素の競争力強化 茨城県内に生産拠点". 茨城新聞クロスアイ (in Japanese). Retrieved 2025-02-13.
- ^ "沿革 | 会社情報". ＪＸ金属 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2025-02-12.
- ^ Tamura, Yasushi (12 February 2025). "JX Advanced Said to Plan March Listing in $3 Billion Tokyo IPO". Bloomberg News.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "JX金属、チリ銅鉱山権益を追加売却 半導体材料に集中". 日本経済新聞 (in Japanese). 2024-06-26. Retrieved 2025-02-13.
- ^ "Caserones". Lundin Mining Corporation. Retrieved 2025-02-13.
- ^ "製品・サービス". ＪＸ金属 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2025-02-12.