Metalworking SolutionsProducts Business Area
Business Overview
cemented carbide products
The Metalworking Solutions business develops and manufactures cemented carbide tools, which are essential for metal processing in industries such as automobiles and aircraft, and supplies them to manufacturing sites around the world. In addition to high durability and machining accuracy, the Company has established a system to collect and recycle used tools. As a solution that achieves both high-efficiency machining and environmental consideration, the Company supports customers' productivity improvements.
Business Objectives and Strategies
The Company aims to establish this business as one that is sustainably selected on a global basis by providing cutting tools, wear‑resistant tools, and construction tools that support the advancement of society and industry. To realize a recycling‑oriented society, the Company will strengthen its resource‑recycling initiatives by expanding collection sites for end‑of‑life products and optimizing its production systems to achieve a more stable supply and higher quality.
In addition, the Company will develop high value‑added products for growth areas such as the aerospace, medical, and semiconductor industries, and accelerate expansion in emerging markets, including India. Through the global provision of products and services, the Company will contribute to improving customers' productivity and to the development of a sustainable society.
Topics
"Tool Assistant": A Service for Proposing the Optimal Tools
Tool Assistant is an online tool selection service that recommends the most suitable tools for metal cutting.
Based on factors such as the workpiece material and processing dimensions, Tool Assistant proposes optimal tools and machining conditions.
Tool selection requires specialized knowledge and experience and often involves inquiries to manufacturers or distributors, making it a time‑consuming process. Furthermore, the decline in skilled workers is expected to make rapid and appropriate tool selection increasingly difficult. To address these challenges, the Company developed Tool Assistant by consolidating the tool selection know how of skilled engineers.
By simply selecting and entering the required information, users can select optimal tools comparable to those selected by skilled engineers, regardless of time or location. In addition, the service is equipped with an AI‑based recommendation function that learns the characteristics of tools selected by users and recommends tools according to user preferences, enabling more efficient identification of optimal tools.
Through the provision of this service, which digitally transforms the tool selection process, the Company contributes to improving productivity in the cutting industry and to addressing challenges related to the succession of technical expertise.
Operating as Your Global Craftsman Studio, with Technical Centers at Nine Locations around the World
Manufacturing evolves constantly. As a company that manufactures and sells cutting tools, our mission is to provide products that meet customers' needs in a timely manner.
To achieve this goal, it is essential that we make an aggressive push to ensure that we ascertain issues faced at the locations where our customers are developing their operations globally, then provide optimal proposals that leverage the expertise we have accumulated over years and verify their implementation.
We make full use of our technical centers in Japan, the United States, Mexico, China, Thailand, Germany, Spain, India, operating under the brand message of “Your Global Craftsman Studio” and communicating with our customers on a daily basis.
Metalworking Solutions Company Global Locations
History
Tokyo Metals Plant (1950s)
Tsukuba Plant (2015)
Our Metalworking Solutions business began in 1931 with the sale of cemented carbide tools under the product name of "Tridia."
| 1942 | Established the Tokyo Metals Plant (later the Tokyo Plant, relocated to Tsukuba in 1991) |
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| 1944 | Established the Niigata Metals Plant (now Diamet Corporation) |
| 1963 | Established Japan New Metals Co., Ltd. |
| 1966 | Established Mitsubishi Mallory Metallurgical Co., Ltd. (later Mitsubishi Materials C.M.I. Corporation, now Nidec Material Corporation) |
| 1973 | Established the Gifu Plant |
| 1974 | Established Mitsubishi Metals Spain SA (now Mitsubishi Materials España, S.A.) |
| 1983 | Established MMC Hartmetall GmbH |
| 1984 | Established Fabricated Metal Products Corporation (now Mitsubishi Materials U.S.A. Corporation) |
| 1987 | Established the Fujioka Plant (now Fujioka Plant of Diamet Corporation) |
| 1991 | Established the Tsukuba Plant (relocated from Tokyo Plant) |
| 1993 | Established Diamet Klang (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. |
| 1994 | Established Techno OTE Kako Co., Ltd. (now MITSUBISHI MATERIALS HARDMETAL CORPORATION) |
| 1995 | Established MMC Tools (Thailand) Co., Ltd. |
| 1996 | Established Tianjin Tianling Carbide Tools Co., Ltd. |
| 1997 | Established MMC Metal Fabrication PT. (Indonesia) |
| 2000 | Acquired Shinko Kobelco Tool Co., Ltd. (now Akashi Plant) |
| 2001 | Established Miracle Tools America LLC |
| 2011 | Established Guangzhou Diamet Corporation |
| 2014 | Merger with Mitsubishi Materials Tools Corporation |
| 2015 | Converted Hitachi Tool Engineering, Ltd., to consolidated subsidiary, changed name to Mitsubishi Hitachi Tool Engineering, Ltd. |
| 2017 | Transferred in equity in Hitachi Metals MMC Superalloy, Ltd. |
| 2020 | Made Mitsubishi Hitachi Tool Engineering, Ltd. a wholly owned subsidiary and changed the name to MOLDINO Tool Engineering, Ltd. Transferred equity of Diamet Corporation. |
| 2025 | Changed the global brand for cemented carbide tool products to "Mitsubishi Materials" Made U.F.P. s.r.l. in Italy a wholly owned subsidiary |
Related Products
Major Affiliated Companies
- MMC Tooling Co., Ltd.Production and sale of cemented carbide tools
- Mitsubishi Materials Hardmetal Corp.Production and sales of cemented carbide products
- MOLDINO Tool Engineering, Ltd.Development, production and sales of cemented carbide products
- Mitsubishi Materials U.S.A. Corp.Sales of cemented carbide tools and metal processing products
- Mitsubishi Materials (Thailand) Co., Ltd.Production and sales of cemented carbide products
- Mitsubishi Materials Tools Europe GmbHSales of cemented carbide products and a holding company for cemented carbide products in Europe
- MOLDINO Tool Engineering Europe GmbHSales of cemented carbide products
List of Plants
- Machining Technology Center
- Tsukuba Plant
- Gifu Plant
- Akashi Plant
