Furukawa Electric
Furukawa Electric is a major in the Distribution & Misc segment of the semiconductor & AI supply chain, headquartered in Ōtemachi. Its key suppliers include Coherent, Lumentum Holdings, Broadcom. Its key customers include TSMC, Samsung Electronics, Intel.
Optical fiber, components, and electronic materials maker.
- Ticker
- TSE: 5801
- Headquarters
- Ōtemachi
- Founded
- 1884
- Revenue
- $7.5B (FY2025) · +13.8% YoY
- Net income
- $209M
- Operating margin
- 7.0%
- Market position
- major
- Value-chain segment
- Photonics & Optics, Substrates
- Key products
- Optical fiber and optical-fiber cables, Fiber optic components and modules, Automotive wiring harnesses (Furukawa Automotive), Electronic materials (heat-spreaders, copper foil), Power cables and infrastructure
About Furukawa Electric
Furukawa Electric, headquartered in Japan, operates in the Photonics & Optics and Substrates segments of the semiconductor & AI supply chain and is positioned as a market major there. Its key products include Optical fiber and optical-fiber cables, Fiber optic components and modules, Automotive wiring harnesses (Furukawa Automotive), Electronic materials (heat-spreaders, copper foil), Power cables and infrastructure. wafergraph maps 3 tracked suppliers and 10 tracked customers for Furukawa Electric across the value chain. It has a supply-chain criticality score of 68/100, with 235 companies downstream of it.
Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. is a Japanese electric and electronics equipment company.
Role in the chain
Furukawa Electric is a market major in Distribution & Misc (Photonics & Optics), headquartered in Japan. Optical fiber, components, and electronic materials maker.
Diligence questions
- The dataset records 3 tracked suppliers for Furukawa Electric. Which of those edges are researched (named in a filing or primary source) versus segment-inferred, and what happens if one of them stops shipping?
- 1 of Furukawa Electric's tracked suppliers are a monopoly or leader (including Broadcom). Which of those are actually single-source for the process step you care about?
- The dataset names 10 tracked customers for Furukawa Electric. How concentrated is demand among those names, and which of them have a documented second source in this graph?
- Furukawa Electric is headquartered in Japan. What jurisdiction, export-control or logistics risk sits at that HQ, versus at the fabs or plants the filings actually name?
- Furukawa Electric trades as TSE:5801. What does the latest reported period say about capacity and backlog versus the graph position above?
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Key products
- Optical fiber and optical-fiber cables
- Fiber optic components and modules
- Automotive wiring harnesses (Furukawa Automotive)
- Electronic materials (heat-spreaders, copper foil)
- Power cables and infrastructure
Suppliers
Customers
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Cite as: wafergraph, “Furukawa Electric — supply chain, financials & market position”, https://wafergraph.com/company/furukawa (data as of 2026-09-05).
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