The Division’s trading business has a particularly long history with regard to its distributorship operations, which have been conducted for decades in the U.S., the U.K., and Australia. Recently, the Division has also begun expanding its distributorship and product support operations in Asia and Latin America as an attempt to capture infrastructure demand in resource-producing nations and emerging countries. In the machine tool sector, the Division has been operating a wholesale business with Citizen Machinery for a long time in the U.S.
The Division is conducting business in global trading, wholesale, and parts manufacturing joint venture operations. The Division has also expanded the existing business areas, and actively entered aftermarket areas such as retail finance and parts distribution businesses. The Division aims to build a varied portfolio in the industry, and create a business model that will withstand economic and market fluctuations.
Marubeni is building a value chain for rubber, covering a wide range of businesses from manufacturing and the sales of natural rubber to the import, export, off-shore trade, and overseas retailing of rubber products, including tires and conveyor belts.
In PV sector, the Division sells PV cell manufacturing facilities and parts, PV module-related material, PV panels and systems, install solar power generation systems, and also manage solar power generation project. By integrating the information and know-how the Division has accumulated through its long-term involvement in the sector, and by utilizing the organizing function of a general trading company, the Division contributes to spread utilization of renewable energy.