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= Hanwa =

Hanwa Co., Ltd (阪和興業株式会社, Hanwa Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha) is an major independent Japanese trading company headquartered in Chūō-ku, Osaka, Japan. Hanwa deals mainly in Steel and Steel products (about slightly over half of total sales) but also trades ferrous, non-ferrous metals and metal scrap, food , petroleum and synthetic resins , lumber and machinery among other commodities. It has also diversified into scrap metal recycling. While not considered one of the seven major Sogo Shosha, Hanwa's net assets topped 190 billion yen in FY2020.

History
It was established in Osaka in 1946 as Hanwa Shōkai (阪和商会）before being reorganised into Hanwa Co. Ltd the following year . It first started trading overseas with the People's Republic of China in 1953 and established its first overseas office in Hong Kong in 1964 . It subsequently expanded into North America in 1965, South East Asia in 1971 , South America in 1972 , the Middle East in 1973 , Europe in 1975 and finally Africa in 2009.

Offices
Hanwa's Osaka headquarters is located at Yodobayashi Garden Avenue 4-3-9, Fushimi-machi, Chūō-ku, Osaka, while its Tokyo headquarters are located at Ginza Shochiku Square 1-13-1, Tsujiki, Chūō-ku, Tokyo. It has 18 other offices in the various prefectures of Japan and 48 overseas offices.

Business
Hanwa's business is loosely divided into 6 divisions:


 * Steel: Trades in all manner of steel and steel materials, ranging from steel plates, sheets and bars to construction materials.
 * Metal recycling and Primary metals: Trade in mainly aluminium, copper, zinc, lead, stainless steel and other metals.
 * Food products: Supply of mainly salmon, prawns and shrimp, octopus, mackerel, horse mackerel, herring roe, capelin, crab and chicken.
 * Energy and Living materials: Supply of heavy fuels, gasoil, bunker fuel to various industries, as well as importing/exporting a wide variety of commodities such as base-oil, additives, chemical products, biomass and recovered paper, and RPF for Hanwa's recycling business.
 * Lumber and Plywood: Import of various lumber products from around the world, including North America (U.S., Canada), Europe (Finland, Sweden, Romania, Austria), Russia, and China, as well as export of Japanese lumber and wood products.
 * Machinery: The machinery business has two components: amusement facilities, mainly amusement park rides and other facilities; and industrial machinery, mainly steel processing machinery.