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Nippon Carbon Co., Ltd.
 PROFILE
Heat can't beat Nippon Carbon. The company is a leading maker of graphite electrodes for electric furnaces. Steelmakers and other manufacturers use the furnaces to melt scrap metals. In addition to graphite electrode production, Nippon Carbon also makes fine carbon products for the semiconductor industry and carbon-based products for the auto industry. Other carbon products include graphite material used in the cathodes of lithium-ion batteries. Nippon Carbon is one of two companies that pled guilty to price-fixing the US graphite electrodes market and was fined $2.5 million by the US Justice Department.

 COMPETITION
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 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
Fiscal Year-End: December
2000 Sales (mil.): 179.50
1-Yr. Sales Growth: 4.1%
Employees: 462
Revenue per employee: $388,528.14

 KEY PEOPLE
• Yuichi Toba
    CEO

 CONTACT INFO
6-1, Hatchobori, 2-Chome, Chuo-ku
Tokyo 104-0032, Japan
Phone: 81-3-3552-6111
Fax: 81-3-3553-4694

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