At a glance
| Booth | S8042 |
| Country | JP |
| Website | www.swcc.co.jp |
Company profile
SWCC Corporation is a long-established Japanese wire and cable manufacturer that describes itself as the third biggest wire and cable manufacturer in Japan. Founded on May 26, 1936, SWCC Corporation has built its business around Japan-made electric wires, cables and infrastructure products and states that it supplies products to customers around the world. The company lists paid-in capital of 24,221 million yen, approximately 1,500 employees and a listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market under SWCC Corporation (5805.T). Its lines of business include electric wires and cables, electric-power equipment parts, windings, magnet wire, optical-fiber cables and rollers for information equipment. SWCC Corporation also lists metal telecommunications cables, optical-fiber cables and construction equipment, FA cables, optical-fiber components, XLPE-insulated power cables, buses, transmission and distribution equipment, bare and insulated wire, superconducting wires, heat rollers, and design, execution and supervision of electrical works. Its Energy and Infrastructure business covers electric wires, electric-power cables, electric-power equipment, engineering, aluminum wires and power accessories, while its Communication and Components business covers communication cables, optical parts, power accessories, wire harnesses, precision devices, magnet wire, bare wire, copper-alloy wire and vibration dampers or isolators. The company has production sites named Sagamihara Plant, Mie Plant, Sendai Plant, Aichi Factory, Ibaraki Factory and Yamamoto Factory. Its sales-office network includes the Head Office, Osaka, Nagoya, Sendai, Fukuoka, Taipei and Hanoi, giving the company stated sales coverage in Japan and elsewhere in Asia. Consolidated subsidiaries listed by SWCC Corporation include TOTOKU INC., SFCC Corporation, FUJI ELECTRIC CABLE CO., LTD., SDS Corporation, LOGIS-WORKS CO., LTD., SHOUKOU EQUIPMENT INDUSTRY CO., LTD., SHOWA SCIENCE CO., LTD. and STEC (SHOWA TECHNICAL CORPORATION). Its listed overseas consolidated companies include SWCC (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD., JIAXING SHOWA INTERCONNECT PRODUCTS CO., LTD., DONGGUAN SHOWA INTERCONNECT PRODUCTS CO., LTD., FUQING SHOWA PRECISION ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SWCC SHOWA (VIETNAM) CO., LTD. and SWCC SHOWA VIETNAM INTERCONNECT PRODUCTS CO., LTD. SWCC Corporation says it has accumulated a broad base of elemental technologies since its establishment and uses them to develop markets in industrial applications, medical devices and mobility. It describes its business as addressing social issues in environment and energy, disaster prevention and infrastructure, life and mobility, education and human-resource development, and medical care and health through products, technologies and services. In 2019, SWCC Corporation adopted a segment-based structure centered on the Energy and Infrastructure Business and the Communication and Components Business. The Energy and Infrastructure Business continues the company's long-running supply of electric wires and cables for social infrastructure and includes power cables, electrical equipment and seismic-isolation products, with SICONEX positioned as a flagship power-market product under the SICOPLUS strategy. The Communication and Components Business serves information and communications, automotive and industrial-equipment sectors with telecom cables, automotive parts, electronic components including semiconductor testing devices, wire harnesses, copier parts and factory-automation cables. SWCC Corporation states that it is expanding global sales and production systems while strengthening a portfolio of higher-value products in the Communication and Components Business. ROIC management was introduced in FY 2019 to evaluate each business numerically; the company describes structural reforms that included exiting low-profit or low-productivity businesses and reports ROIC improving from the 3% range in the past to 11.9% in fiscal year 2024. SWCC Corporation also manufactures Ultra-Fine Flat Wire, Copper-Silver Alloy Wire and Oxygen-Free Copper and states that these Japan-made products are supplied to customers all over the world.
Exhibits
For precision-processed electronic components and electric-vehicle motors, SWCC Corporation supplies windings that use its oxygen-free copper as the conductor. Its wire and winding lineup includes oxygen-free copper wire, copper alloys including copper-silver alloy material, enameled wire, enameled rectangular copper wire, fine and ultra-fine flat wire identified as FINE FLAT ENAMELLED WIRE, litz wire, high-strength enameled wire, served wire and magnet wire. SWCC Corporation provides optical fibers that use the characteristics of silica and plastic cladding and offers optical-cable choices for applications ranging from broadband infrastructure trunk lines to office LAN wiring. The optical range includes optical-fiber cores, single-mode and multimode optical fiber, general-purpose optical-fiber cable, tape-slot cable with SZ stranding and layered cable. Application-adapted optical cables include aerial cable, fire-resistant heat-resistant cable, line-sheath cable, distribution cable, direct-burial cable and highly flame-retardant optical-fiber cable, together with FTTH optical-fiber cable, premises optical cable and flexible premises optical cable. For metal communications, SWCC Corporation supplies metal communication cables and metal LAN wiring cables for offices and other uses, with named products including CCP-P, CCP-AP, TKEV, EM-CCP-P/F, EM-CCP-AP/F and EM-TKEE/F. In the semiconductor market, SWCC Corporation lists wiring for semiconductor test fixtures, network analyzers and other measurement equipment, including a High-Frequency Cable Assembly for microwave use. The High-Frequency Cable Assembly supports DC to 145 GHz and is described as having low attenuation and low reflection, with long-length availability, armor processing, standard coaxial connectors and narrow-pitch multipole coaxial connection systems. Low-skew versions of the High-Frequency Cable Assembly can be phase-adjusted and are intended for digital-signal transmission applications. The semiconductor lineup also names RUOTA, High Performance Coaxial Cable & Differential cable and Wavemolle. Its Probe Pin or Contact Probe is an ultra-fine-diameter wire probe for electronic components with narrow-pitch electrodes and is supplied for conductivity inspection of semiconductors, LCD panels and IC package substrates. For semiconductor tester wiring, SWCC Corporation offers a high-performance coaxial cable described as thin, lightweight and flexible and as supporting high-frequency, high-speed transmission and long-distance communication. That high-performance coaxial cable is offered for communications, automobiles, industrial equipment and medical-device fields in addition to semiconductor tester wiring. In its device-field lineup, SWCC Corporation applies material technologies to industrial vibration-control devices, sound-control technology, seismic isolators and heat rollers for photocopiers, addressing problems associated with earthquakes, noise pollution and vibration. Its heat roller is used in the fixed-toner-image section of laser printers and copiers to apply heat and pressure. The device-field offering also includes broad ranges of electronic wires and wire harnesses for office equipment, computers and home appliances. SICONEX is a family of compact connectors for high-voltage power cables, using insulation technology for power-transmission and distribution facilities, transformers, power plants and substations. The SICONEX lineup includes a Type T terminator, Directmold and Smart Cable Heads, and the company emphasizes compactness, lightness, labor saving and safety across the product family. Directmold uses a completely dry solid-insulation structure with silicone rubber molded directly on an epoxy-bushing surface, replacing insulating oil with epoxy resin and reducing oil-leak risk while allowing more freedom in mounting orientation. Smart Cable Heads connect power equipment and XLPE cables in voltage classes from 66/77kV to 275kV and are intended to reduce the total space required for power equipment and substations. SICONEX uses a plug-in structure so connection work can be carried out by inserting connection material into a cable head pre-installed on power equipment, reducing on-site labor and shortening the construction period compared with conventional on-site assembly. SWCC Corporation also developed e-Ribbon®, a rollable ribbon for ultra-fine, high-density optical cables intended for large-scale data-center environments where many optical fibers must be installed efficiently in limited space. e-Ribbon® precisely links many optical fibers while retaining the deformable and flexible characteristics of single-core fibers, suppresses strain when many fibers are stored in a cable and allows batch splicing of multiple fibers. By combining smaller cable diameter with improved installation workability, e-Ribbon® is presented as addressing both dense fiber accommodation and faster wiring work. For a 12-km cable installation, SWCC Corporation states that an ultra-thin high-density e-Ribbon® cable can require less than half the number of connection points of conventional cables, while the thinner diameter also allows longer lengths to be wound on one drum. The company also links fewer drums and trucks with lower transportation cost and reduced CO2 emissions and states that one 10-ton truck can transport 12,000 core-km of optical cables in the cited e-Ribbon® case. For overseas data centers, SWCC Corporation developed the thin, lightweight, high-density e-Ribbon® Slot-less Cable and e-Ribbon® Loose Tube Cable and added 200㎛ optical fibers with a smaller outer diameter than ordinary optical fibers to the lineup. SWCC Corporation identifies aging power infrastructure, the revenue-cap system introduced in April 2023, renewable-energy FIT and FIP schemes, and work-style reform associated with the 2024 labor regulation as factors supporting demand in Japan's power-infrastructure market. Within that context, the company links SICONEX demand to renewal of transmission and distribution equipment, planned investment, renewable-energy power equipment and the product's lightweight design and reduced installation time. SWCC Corporation differentiates SICONEX through product design focused on environmental friendliness, earthquake resistance and ease of installation. The completely dry SICONEX approach replaces oil-filled porcelain-casing air termination structures with solid insulation, producing a lightweight, compact product that the company describes as environmentally friendly and highly reliable. For e-Ribbon®, SWCC Corporation contrasts conventional optical tape cores, which improve batch workability but can be weak against width-direction curvature and become bulky in high-fiber-count cables, with individual single-core fibers that can be densely stored but are less efficient to connect one by one. SWCC Corporation says e-Ribbon® was developed by applying its optical-design technology to preserve single-core flexibility while precisely linking many fibers, and it bases overseas data-center products on its e-Ribbon® track record in Japan.
Capabilities and products
- Ultra-Fine Flat Wire
- Copper-Silver Alloy Wire
- Oxygen-Free Copper
- DC-to-145-GHz high-frequency cable assemblies
- phase-adjusted low-skew cables
- Probe Pin/Contact Probe
- high-performance coaxial and differential cables
- SICONEX compact connectors for high-voltage power cables
- e-Ribbon® rollable ribbon for high-density optical cables