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  "status": "unclaimed",
  "updated_at": "2026-09-27",
  "revision": 2,
  "provenance_url": "https://itha.ai/c/kobelco.co.jp/provenance.json",
  "card": {
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        "city": "Kobe",
        "region": "Hyogo",
        "country": "JP"
      },
      "url": "https://www.kobelco.co.jp/english/",
      "name": "Kobe Steel, Ltd. (KOBELCO)",
      "domain": "kobelco.co.jp",
      "founded": 1905,
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      ],
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      },
      "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": {
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      }
    },
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        "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",
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              "min": 858
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            },
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            "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": {
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            "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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        "spec_version": "0.2"
      }
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-27"
  }
}