Krosaki Harima Corporation (5352) Stock Overview

Krosaki Harima Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells refractory and ceramic products in Japan and internationally. The company's refractory products include blast furnace, hot store, coke oven, torpedo ladle, oxygen converter, secondary refining furnace, steel ladle, and continuous casting refractories, as well as unshaped and functional refractories, and refractories for kilns; and industrial furnaces comprising heating furnaces, incinerators, etc. It also provides fine ceramics that are used in the manufacturing processes of semiconductors, measurement devices, and satellites; NEXCERA, a low thermal expansion ceramic material used in the manufacturing processes of communications devices, home appliances, automobiles, and other products; Platect, a thermal ceramic for use in thermal insulation materials, heaters, landscape bricks, etc.; and high performance thermal insulation WDS. In addition, the company is involved in the furnace construction and refractory processing; engineering and manufacturing of sliding nozzle devices and refractory molds, as well as Rental of stores and warehouses, and manufacture and sell lime for steel mills. It serves iron and steel, glass and chemical, and cement sectors, as well as incinerators and power plants. The company was formerly known as Kurosaki Refractories Co.,Ltd. and changed its name to Krosaki Harima Corporation in April 2000. Krosaki Harima Corporation was incorporated in 1918 and is headquartered in Kitakyushu, Japan.