Furukawa Co., Ltd operates within the Primary copper sector. In addition to historical fundamental analyses, the complete report available to purchase compares Furukawa Co., Ltd with three other copper companies in Asia: Poongsan Holdings Corporation of South Korea (2017 sales of 262.06 billion Korean Won [US$244.24 million] of which 95% was Manufacturing), Ningbo Boway Alloy Material Co Ltd of China (5.76 billion Chinese Renmimbi [US$914.51 million] of which 72% was Copper Alloy), and China Nonferrous Mining Corporation Ltd which is based in Hong Kong (14.33 billion Hong Kong Dollars [US$1.83 billion] ).

Sales Analysis. During the year ended March of 2017, sales at Furukawa Co., Ltd were ¥149.83 billion (US$1.39 billion). This is a decrease of 7.4% versus 2016, when the company's sales were ¥161.80 billion. The sales level in 2017 was fairly close to the level five years ago: in 2012, Furukawa Co., Ltd had sales of ¥157.57 billion. Contributing to the drop in overall sales was the 11.3% decline in Chemicals Business, from ¥5.97 billion to ¥5.30 billion. There were also decreases in sales in Metal Business (down 8.5% to ¥67.85 billion) and Development Machinery (down 10.3% to ¥26.98 billion) and Unic (down 5.3% to ¥25.78 billion) and Industrial Machinery Business (down 5.9% to ¥14.04 billion) . However, these declines were partially offset by the increase in sales of E-Business (up 6.2% to ¥5.82 billion) and Real Estate (up 1.0% to ¥3.07 billion) and Other (up 12.2% to ¥983.00 million) .