thyssenkrupp Uhde Japan

We are a company of thyssenkrupp group

thyssenkrupp is an international industrial and technology company employing around 100,000 people across 48 countries.

Under the umbrella brand thyssenkrupp (result of a merger in 1999 of Thyssen and Krupp), the group creates long-term value with innovative products, technologies and services and help make life better for future generations. To this end, the company pursues ambitious climate protection targets and optimizes its own energy and climate efficiency. At the same time, it uses its diverse abilities along the relevant value chains to play a significant role in driving forward its customers’ green transformation.

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Segments of thyssenkrupp

thyssenkrupp Uhde Japan Ltd. (tkUJ) is a subsidiary of thyssenkrupp Uhde, which belongs to the Decarbon Technologies segment in thyssenkrupp group.

In the Decarbon Technologies segment businesses are combined which have key technologies for the green transformation: thyssenkrupp rothe erde, thyssenkrupp Uhde, thyssenkrupp Polysius and thyssenkrupp nucera.

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There is a long history between thyssenkrupp group and Japan

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Prussian envoy Friedrich Graf zu Eulenburg brought along a Krupp-made rolling machine as a gift to Japan
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A Japanese delegation what was a part of Iwakura Mission, arrived at the Krupp Works in Essen
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Krupp-made rails (1,800, approx. 507 t) were delivered to Japan

Japan's first modern steel mill was built in Yawata (Fukuoka Pref.) with the major support of Gutehoffnungshuette (later Thyssen Niederrhein AG)

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(Railways nationalised in Japan, railway network expanded).
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Thyssen Henschel supplies 120 locomotives and 1,200 t of rail.

Krupp Koppers GmbH built a battery with 60 coke ovens at Mitsui Mining Corporation.

Friedrich Uhde founds the plant engineering company Uhde GmbH (now thyssenkrupp Uhde).

Uhde built the first ammonia plant, it features 100 metric tons per day of ammonia capacity

Dr. C. Otto (now thyssenkrupp Uhde Japan) established Japanese entity in order for provision of coke plants

Uhde built sulphur recovery plants for Idemitsu Kosan and Nippon Mining.

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Krupp Group licenses Hitachi Ltd to build a monorail between Tokyo and Haneda Airport.

Uhde (Otto, Koppers, Carl Still, Didier) built over 3,000 coke ovens

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JFE Steel Corp. and ThyssenKrupp Stahl AG signed a wide-ranging cooperation agreement for a strategic alliance
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Support for the pad-up of ageing coke ovens.

Start responding to the needs for hot repair (including through-wall repair)

ThyssenKrupp Otto founded

ThyssenKrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers (now thyssenkrupp nucera) founded

thyssenkrupp Uhde Japan Ltd founded

Uhde is the "pure play" in chemical plants and processes

Founded 6 April 1921
1st Ammonia plant in 1928

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Our mission statement

What is important is that customers, partners and employees work together as a team to create new value. Our corporate slogan "engineering. tomorrow. together." expresses this idea and is at the same time the cornerstone for leading and succeeding in the future of the industry.

Our parent company, thyssenkrupp Uhde, is present on all five continents, where different cultures and lifestyles, as well as highly skilled and passionate employees, work together. The curiosity, imagination and intuition of these employees are the driving force of the organization and an invaluable asset.

Mission statement

thyssenkrupp Uhde has global footprint of reference over 2,500 plants