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🇯🇵 Japan — Melting Scrap Directory

A country with an extensive metals industry. The list below contains 41 companies in Japan active in melting scrap, grouped by metal speciality.

📅 Last Updated: September 2026

Major hubs: 📍 Tokyo · 📍 Osaka · 📍 Yokohama · 📍 Nagoya · 📍 Kawasaki

Japan in the Global Melting Scrap Trade

Japan has an extensive industrial base across steel, copper, aluminium, zinc, and stainless steel. The country generates flows of melting scrap from its manufacturing operations and is also a domestic consumer.

The sector covers integrated non-ferrous smelting and refining, an extensive steel production base, aluminium rolling, and specialty alloy manufacturing. Operations are spread across the main industrial corridors of Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, Nagoya, and Kawasaki. Japanese material is widely recognised in international trade for being well-graded, well-documented, and free of contamination.

Companies by Metal

The same company may appear under multiple metals where it handles more than one category.

⚙️ Steel (23)

Nippon Steel Corporation
Tokyo • Largest Japanese steel producer
🏷️ Steel · Stainless Steel
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JFE Steel Corporation
Tokyo • Steel producer, TSE-listed
🏷️ Steel
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Kobe Steel (Kobelco)
Kobe • Steel and aluminium, TSE-listed
🏷️ Steel · Aluminium
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Tokyo Steel Manufacturing
Tokyo • Electric arc furnace mill
🏷️ Steel
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Daido Steel
Nagoya • Specialty steel, TSE-listed
🏷️ Steel · Stainless Steel
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Sanyo Special Steel
Himeji • Specialty steel
🏷️ Steel · Stainless Steel
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Yodogawa Steel Works
Osaka • Steel sheet
🏷️ Steel
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Kyoei Steel
Osaka • EAF rebar producer, publicly listed
🏷️ Steel
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Yamato Kogyo
Himeji • EAF steel group, publicly listed
🏷️ Steel
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Godo Steel
Osaka • EAF steelmaker
🏷️ Steel
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Osaka Steel
Osaka • EAF long products (Nippon Steel group)
🏷️ Steel
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Aichi Steel
Tokai • Special steel, publicly listed
🏷️ Steel
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Nakayama Steel Works
Osaka • Steel producer, publicly listed
🏷️ Steel
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Hanwa Co Ltd
Osaka • Steel and scrap trading house, publicly listed
🏷️ Steel
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Toyota Tsusho
Nagoya • Trading house with metal recycling operations, listed
🏷️ Steel · Aluminium
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Suzutoku
Tokyo • Ferrous scrap processor and exporter
🏷️ Steel
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Tokyo Tekko
Tokyo • EAF rebar producer, publicly listed
🏷️ Steel
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Tokyo Kohtetsu
Tokyo • EAF steelmaker, publicly listed
🏷️ Steel
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Mitsubishi Steel Manufacturing
Tokyo • Special steel, publicly listed
🏷️ Steel
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Topy Industries
Tokyo • EAF steel and wheels, publicly listed
🏷️ Steel
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Chubu Steel Plate
Nagoya • EAF plate mill, publicly listed
🏷️ Steel
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Metal One
Tokyo • Steel trading house (Mitsubishi / Sojitz)
🏷️ Steel
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Okaya & Co
Nagoya • Metals trading house, publicly listed
🏷️ Steel · Copper · Aluminium
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🟠 Copper (10)

Sumitomo Metal Mining
Tokyo • Copper, nickel producer, TSE-listed
🏷️ Copper
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Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
Tokyo • Copper, aluminium, alloys, TSE-listed
🏷️ Copper · Aluminium
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Pan Pacific Copper (JX-Sumitomo)
Tokyo • Copper smelter JV
🏷️ Copper
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Dowa Holdings
Tokyo • Non-ferrous, TSE-listed
🏷️ Copper · Zinc
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Furukawa Electric
Tokyo • Copper products, TSE-listed
🏷️ Copper
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Mitsui Mining & Smelting
Tokyo • Non-ferrous, TSE-listed
🏷️ Copper · Zinc
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Mitsubishi Shindoh
Tokyo • Copper alloy producer
🏷️ Copper
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JX Nippon Mining & Metals
Tokyo • Copper smelting, refining and recycling
🏷️ Copper
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Okaya & Co
Nagoya • Metals trading house, publicly listed
🏷️ Steel · Copper · Aluminium
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Sumitomo Electric Industries
Osaka • Copper wire and cable, publicly listed
🏷️ Copper
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⚪ Aluminium (7)

Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
Tokyo • Copper, aluminium, alloys, TSE-listed
🏷️ Copper · Aluminium
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Kobe Steel (Kobelco)
Kobe • Steel and aluminium, TSE-listed
🏷️ Steel · Aluminium
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UACJ Corporation
Tokyo • Aluminium rolling, TSE-listed
🏷️ Aluminium
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Nippon Light Metal
Tokyo • Aluminium, TSE-listed
🏷️ Aluminium
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Toyota Tsusho
Nagoya • Trading house with metal recycling operations, listed
🏷️ Steel · Aluminium
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Daiki Aluminium Industry
Osaka • Secondary aluminium alloys, publicly listed
🏷️ Aluminium
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Okaya & Co
Nagoya • Metals trading house, publicly listed
🏷️ Steel · Copper · Aluminium
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🔵 Zinc (3)

Dowa Holdings
Tokyo • Non-ferrous, TSE-listed
🏷️ Copper · Zinc
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Mitsui Mining & Smelting
Tokyo • Non-ferrous, TSE-listed
🏷️ Copper · Zinc
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Toho Zinc
Tokyo • Zinc and lead, TSE-listed
🏷️ Zinc
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✨ Stainless Steel (6)

Nippon Steel Corporation
Tokyo • Largest Japanese steel producer
🏷️ Steel · Stainless Steel
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Hitachi Metals (Proterial)
Tokyo • Specialty alloys, TSE-listed
🏷️ Stainless Steel
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Daido Steel
Nagoya • Specialty steel, TSE-listed
🏷️ Steel · Stainless Steel
🤖 About Company🔍 Website & Contact
Sanyo Special Steel
Himeji • Specialty steel
🏷️ Steel · Stainless Steel
🤖 About Company🔍 Website & Contact
Nippon Yakin Kogyo
Tokyo • Stainless and nickel alloys, publicly listed
🏷️ Stainless Steel
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Nippon Steel Stainless Steel
Tokyo • Stainless flat products
🏷️ Stainless Steel
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🟡 Brass (3)

Mitsubishi Shindoh
Tokyo • Copper and brass semis producer
🏷️ Brass
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San-Etsu Metals
Tonami • Major brass rod producer
🏷️ Brass
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KITZ Corporation
Chino • Valve producer with in-house brass melting
🏷️ Brass
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📈 Price references for Japan

The exchanges and services the trade in Japan actually quotes against. Scrap is priced as a discount to these — see the world price guide for the full formula and all exchanges.

🇬🇧 LME — London Metal Exchange
Industrial metals — copper, zinc, lead, aluminium, tin, nickel, steel rebar/scrap.
→ View LME prices
🇨🇳 SHFE — Shanghai Futures Exchange
China's domestic copper, zinc, aluminium, lead and nickel futures.
→ View SHFE prices
📰 Fastmarkets MB
Metal Bulletin — pricing and news across all metal scrap categories.
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