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  "itha": "0.2",
  "company": {
    "hq": {
      "city": "Kobe",
      "region": "Hyogo",
      "country": "JP"
    },
    "url": "https://www.kobelco.co.jp/english/",
    "name": "Kobe Steel, Ltd. (KOBELCO)",
    "domain": "kobelco.co.jp",
    "founded": 1905,
    "same_as": [
      "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1730802"
    ],
    "employees": {
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      "min": 38614
    },
    "legal_name": "Kobe Steel, Ltd.",
    "description": "Kobe Steel, Ltd. is a Japanese manufacturer with business segments in steel and aluminum, advanced materials, welding, machinery, engineering, construction machinery, electric power and semiconductor-related products.",
    "identifiers": {
      "lei": "549300ZDCYYUPHEE5K87"
    }
  },
  "offerings": [
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      "url": "https://www.kobelco.co.jp/english/products/welding/robots.html",
      "kind": "hardware",
      "name": "Welding Robots & Systems (ARCMAN)",
      "role": "manufacturer",
      "summary": "ARCMAN arc welding robots in four sizes (5-10 kg payload, 858-2735 mm reach) and welding systems, including the ARCMAN-MP four-robot system and REGARC-equipped structural steel welding systems.",
      "category": "industrial_robot",
      "extensions": {
        "robotics": {
          "category": "industrial_robot",
          "reach_mm": {
            "max": 2735,
            "min": 858
          },
          "payload_kg": {
            "max": 10,
            "min": 5
          },
          "applications": [
            "welding"
          ],
          "spec_version": "0.2"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "welding-consumables",
      "icp": {
        "industries": [
          "Building structures",
          "Automobile manufacturing",
          "Shipbuilding",
          "Offshore structures",
          "Boiler production",
          "Reactor construction",
          "Construction machinery"
        ]
      },
      "url": "https://www.kobelco.co.jp/english/products/welding/materials.html",
      "kind": "consumable",
      "name": "Welding Consumables",
      "role": "manufacturer",
      "summary": "Welding materials from covered electrodes and semi-automatic welding wires to wires and fluxes for automatic welding, including flux-cored wires and SE series solid wires.",
      "category": "welding_equipment"
    },
    {
      "id": "isostatic-pressing-equipment",
      "url": "https://www.kobelco.co.jp/english/products/machinery/ip/",
      "kind": "hardware",
      "name": "Isostatic Pressing (IP) Equipment",
      "role": "manufacturer",
      "summary": "Hot isostatic presses (HIP), cold isostatic presses (CIP) and isostatic food processing equipment, from small research machines to extra-large machines, with a test center for customer samples.",
      "category": "press"
    },
    {
      "id": "tire-and-rubber-machinery",
      "icp": {
        "industries": [
          "Tire manufacturing",
          "Rubber goods manufacturing"
        ]
      },
      "url": "https://www.kobelco.co.jp/english/products/tire/mixer/",
      "kind": "hardware",
      "name": "Tire and Rubber Machinery",
      "role": "manufacturer",
      "summary": "KOBELCO MIXTRON BB series rubber internal intensive mixers with tangential and intermeshing rotors, batch mixers and twin screw roller head extruders for tire and rubber goods plants.",
      "category": "plastics_rubber_machinery"
    },
    {
      "id": "plastic-processing-machinery",
      "icp": {
        "use_cases": [
          "Polyethylene and polypropylene pelletizing"
        ],
        "industries": [
          "Chemicals"
        ]
      },
      "url": "https://www.kobelco.co.jp/english/products/machinery/resin/",
      "kind": "hardware",
      "name": "Plastic Processing Machinery",
      "role": "manufacturer",
      "summary": "Pelletizing systems and extruders (LCM mixing and pelletizing, LCM-EX extrusion pelletizing) for upstream polyethylene and polypropylene manufacturing.",
      "category": "plastics_rubber_machinery"
    },
    {
      "id": "aluminum-flat-rolled-products",
      "url": "https://www.kobelco.co.jp/english/products/steel-aluminum/almi/",
      "kind": "component",
      "name": "Aluminum Flat Rolled Products",
      "role": "manufacturer",
      "summary": "Aluminum sheets and plates for can stock, HDD disks, air-conditioner fins, automotive panels and heat exchangers, and semiconductor and LCD manufacturing equipment (ALHIGHCE and ALJADE plates).",
      "category": "metal_material"
    },
    {
      "id": "wire-rods-and-bars",
      "icp": {
        "industries": [
          "Automotive"
        ]
      },
      "url": "https://www.kobelco.co.jp/english/products/steel-aluminum/wirerod/",
      "kind": "component",
      "name": "Wire Rods and Bars",
      "role": "manufacturer",
      "summary": "Special steel wire rods (dia. 5.5-60.0 mm) and bars (dia. 18.0-105.0 mm), including spring wire rods for automotive engines and suspensions and cold heading quality wire rods for bolts and nuts.",
      "category": "metal_material"
    },
    {
      "id": "steel-sheets",
      "icp": {
        "industries": [
          "Automotive",
          "Home electric appliances"
        ]
      },
      "url": "https://www.kobelco.co.jp/english/products/steel-aluminum/sheet/",
      "kind": "component",
      "name": "Steel Sheets",
      "role": "manufacturer",
      "summary": "High-tensile strength, hot rolled, cold rolled, hot-dip galvanized and electro-galvanized steel sheets for automobile body frame structures and home electric appliances.",
      "category": "metal_material"
    }
  ],
  "engagement": {
    "url": "https://www.kobelco.co.jp/english/inquiry/",
    "phone": "+81-78-261-5111"
  },
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    "robotics": {
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        "robot_manufacturer"
      ],
      "spec_version": "0.2"
    }
  },
  "updated_at": "2026-09-27"
}