Quick Guide to JX Advanced Metals
The Businesses of JX Advanced Metals
JX Advanced Metals is a global player in advanced materials related to copper, minor metals, and other nonferrous metals. We operate our businesses based on an integrated supply chain that extends from securing resources to recycling.
Strategic Business Portfolio for Society in 2040
Social trends surrounding the JX Advanced Metals Group’s business environment are undergoing major changes, including the advance of the data society and the growing global momentum toward achieving the SDGs.
Against this backdrop, the Group has formulated its Long-Term Vision 2040, aiming to transform JX Advanced Metals Group into a technology-based company.
We seek to achieve sustainable growth by positioning each business as either a Focus Business, at the core of our growth strategy, or a Base Business, supporting our organizational foundation.
Focus Businesses
Semiconductor materials segment
ICT materials segment
Base Businesses
Metals & Recycling segment
JX Advanced Metals in Numbers
Business Portfolio: Profit Structure
- FY2025
Operating Income - ?175.0billion
(including ??35.5 billion
in common business expenses
and other adjustments)
- Semiconductor
Materials
Segment - ?39.5billion
- ICT Materials
Segment - ?31.5billion
- Metals &
Recycling
Segment - ?139.5billion
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Notes:
Semiconductor Materials segment: Thin Film Materials Division and Tantalum and Niobium Division
ICT Materials segment: Functional Materials Division, Tatsuta Electric Wire and Cable, and Toho Titanium
Metals & Recycling segment: Metals & Recycling Division and Mineral Resources Division
JX Advanced Metals’ advanced materials with world-leading market sharesNote: As of FY2026
Some of the Places You Will Find JX Advanced Metals
The JX Advanced Metals Group’s advanced materials and technologies supporting the future
Green Hybrid Smelting Combining Copper Ore and Scrap
Green Hybrid Smelting
- In the smelting process, recycled raw materials are melted using the heat generated by chemical reactions from copper concentrate itself, making the use of fossil fuels almost unnecessary.
- As we increase the use of recycled raw materials, copper concentrate continues to be used as a heat source, maintaining an optimal balance between the two.
Green Hybrid Smelting was selected as one of 26 particularly noteworthy examples of Japan’s circular economy initiatives in the Noteworthy Cases Collection 2022 issued by the Circular Economy Partnership, which was established by the Ministry of the Environment; the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry; and Keidanren.
Initiatives to Ensure Long-Term Stable Procurement of Minor Metal Resources
To strengthen our supply chain, we are actively promoting recycling while also investing in minor metal mines and exploring new development projects.
Mibra Mine, Brazil
To secure raw materials for high-purity tantalum powder and tantalum sputtering targets, we have participated since January 2023 in a tantalum raw material production business at the Mibra Mine in Brazil, operated by AMG Brasil.
Australian Mineral Sands Project
In 2025, we concluded an agreement to acquire an interest in a mineral sands deposit development project in Australia by RZ Resources Limited, known as the Copi Project. Feasibility studies and other activities are currently underway for the project, with the aim of securing a diverse range of minerals, including minor metals and rare earths.
The History of JX Advanced Metals
Since our founding in 1905, the Group has worked on creating new value, even while responding to various changes in the business environment. We are determined to continue our challenge, contributing to the development of a sustainable economy and society through creation and innovation in the areas of resources and materials.
1905Established
Start of operation at the Hitachi Mine
Founder Fusanosuke Kuhara started operation at the Hitachi Mine, launching the Mineral resources development business and the smelting and refining business. From the beginning, Kuhara sought to boost productivity by actively embracing mechanization and modernization. The Hitachi Mine was a pioneer in development as a full-fledged custom smelter that processed not only its own ores, but also ores purchased from other companies.
Fusanosuke Kuhara
1914
Construction of the Hitachi Giant Stack
The rapid growth of the Hitachi Mine's business led to a severe smoke pollution problem in the surrounding area. To deal with the pollution, the Company built what was then the world's tallest stack at 155.7 meters. It began operation in March of the following year.
1916
Start of operation at the Saganoseki Smelter & Refinery
In order to further expand the mining, smelting and refining segments fundamental to the Company's diversified business, the Saganoseki Smelter & Refinery was built in Oita Prefecture as one of the largest such plants in Japan. It remains even to this day an important center of the JX Advanced Metals Corporation Group, as a leadingedge smelter boasting the world's top levels of technology and production capacity.
at the time it was built
1964
Kurami Works launched
With the startup of the Kurami Works (Kanagawa Prefecture), the Company made a strong entry into the metal fabrication business. Introducing the latest rolling mills, it produced phosphor bronze and other rolled copper products. By answering the needs of complex markets for flexible manufacturing of diverse products in small lots and production-to-order, while meeting demands for advanced product technology, the Company established a solid position in the metal fabrication field.
1978
New recycling furnace built
A new recycling furnace making use of smelting techniques was built at the Hitachi Smelter & Refinery, marking the start of the recycling and environmental services business. The Company pursued recovery of valuable metals from plating sludge and other industrial waste as a business.
1985
Isohara Works launched
The Company got into the electronic materials business in time for the rise of the electronics industry in the 1980s, making sputtering targets for semiconductors and transparent conductive films for liquid crystal displays, as well as materials for compound semiconductors. By establishing the Isohara Works (Ibaraki Prefecture) as a new main manufacturing center,
the Company expanded into development and manufacturing of copper foil and various electronics materials.
2014
Caserones Copper Mine began production
The official opening of the Caserones Copper Mine was calebrated, and the shipment of copper concentrate was begun.
2018
H.C. Starck Tantalum and Niobium GmbH (present TANIOBIS GmbH) shares acquired
The outstanding shares of H.C. Starck Tantalum and Niobium GmbH (present TANIOBIS GmbH), a German manufacturer of metal powders, were acquired with an eye to expanding business areas, in anticipation of dramatic demand growth for electronic components and devices.
2025
Listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market
JX Advanced Metals Corporation was newly listed on the Prime Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange on March 19, 2025. Through the listing, the Company aims to enhance corporate value by establishing a management structure that enables highly specialized and agile decision-making, achieving an optimal capital structure suited to the characteristics of its businesses, and accelerating capital investment and R&D in highly competitive fields such as semiconductor materials and information and communications materials.
2026
Opening of the Hitachinaka Factory
We aim to enhance our competitiveness in the global semiconductor supply chain by strengthening our production and supply capabilities for advanced materials, including sputtering targets for semiconductors, while also advancing research and development and creating new businesses.
Long-Term Vision
JX Advanced Metals Long-Term Vision 2040
- Shifting to a technology-based from a process industry-type firm
- Generating high and sustainable profits in fierce global business competition
- Contributing to the realization of sustainable society as a global leader in semiconductor/ICT materials
＜Target portfolio＞
Position the Focus Businesses as the core of our growth strategy
- Build appropriate structure for Base Businesses, regardless of business scale, to support growth of Focus Businesses
- Position copper and minor metals indispensable to semiconductor/ICT materials as core domains
【骋谤辞飞迟丑】Focus Businesses
Semiconductor
materials segment
ICT materials
segment
- Aim to achieve profit growth exceeding market growth through technological differentiation
- Drastically expand scale of revenue and make it a source of profits with diverse line-up of technologies and small-lot, highly profitable products
【Business foundation】Base Businesses
Metals & Recycling segment
- Secure stable supply of raw materials (copper and minor metals) for Focus Businesses
- Sustainably supply basic materials required for advanced materials and contribute to resolution of ESG agenda
of JX Advanced Metals Strategic Business Portfolio
for Society in 2040 JX Advanced Metals
in Numbers Some of
the Places
You Will Find Us Green Hybrid Smelting
Combining Copper Ore
and Scrap Initiatives to Ensure
Long-Term Stable Procurement
of Minor Metal Resources The History
of JX Advanced Metals Long-Term Vision