In its non-automotive businesses, the division is generating synergies with its automotive-related businesses.
Armed with these functionalities, the division is also expanding sales channels outside the Toyota Group to further grow business.
In its mainstay automotive-related field, the division is developing its existing functionalities in response to changing needs in readiness for an era of profound transformation in the automotive industry, and it is striving to create new functions and businesses to lead the revolution in vehicle weight reduction and electrification. Specifically, to respond to the drastic changes in the world, the division continues to create and offer new business values in both automotive and non-automotive industries, synergizing functions, technologies, and markets, as well as procurement capabilities with the global network we have developed and our diverse processing and logistics functions available in and outside Japan. Furthermore, through restructuring our SBUs* into four-Automotive Metal Sheet Products, Metal Products, Non-ferrous Metals, and Resources Recycling-we have made possible swift and specialized responses to a broad range of customer needs from both the “arteries” and the “veins,” with such responses being suited to each industry and product. This approach allows us to provide optimal products and logistics matching the needs of both suppliers and users. The Metals Division views steel and non-ferrous metals as products with unique properties and functions rather than simple materials.