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THE STRENGTHS OF UACJ Trading & Processing America, Inc. (UTPA)
We offer strong support to product manufacturers with our unique material procuring and processing network.
We are expanding our business activities inside and outside Japan. We are a trading company that handles non-ferrous metals, mainly aluminum and copper but also other materials, and products made by processing them. Our coordination allows our customers to enjoy both procurement efficiency and cost reduction. We provide other great advantages, including consultations on ways to improve product quality by identifying the optimum materials, and how to shorten the development period for a new product.
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AN EXTENSIVE NETWORK FOR PROCURING MATERIALS, PROCESSING THEM, AND DISTRIBUTING THEM
We have a wide level of associations with materials manufactures inside and outside Japan, this is not limited solely to UACJ Group member plants. We can provide the best product to suit each customer's specific need. Moreover, because our network extends to many processing plants and business-related entities inside and outside Japan, we can offer processed items and provide our procurement and logistic services to obtain them. In adding to the standard ranks of suppliers, we can identify and coordinate with new supply sources.
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YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOW-HOW IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE
If at all possible, we meet our customers' needs from sources near them. This principle has led us to expand our overseas business bases, following our customers' advancing waves across the globe. We have established quite a number of overseas sales bases, starting with 7 points in China, and other bases in South-East Asia, the USA and Europe. We have many more bases than other trading companies specializing in non-ferrous metals. As we said above, we respond in precise detail to our customers' requirements. At these sites, our staff can cope with all the complexities that arise in this business: regular export and import operations, local procurements, direct distribution of products from one place to another (whether inside or outside Japan), and various trade formalities that require highly experienced knowhow.
| Sales Offices | Tokyo, Osaka, Aichi, Chicago, Battle Creek, Silao, Bangkok, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Dongguan, Dalian, Hong Kong, Prague, and San Jose |
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| Processing Plants | Kunshan |
| Warehouse | Battle Creek |
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WE CAN GIVE STRONG SUPPORT TO OUR CUSTOMERS IN THEIR DEVELOPMENT OF NEW PRODUCTS UNDER TECHNICAL SUPPORT FROM THE UACJ GROUP LABORATORIES.
The UACJ Group has extended its own unique development and design capabilities, and supplies its own high-value-added products. We collaborate with the UACJ Technical Development Laboratory to upgrade products and develop new products. We develop the optimum product by repeating the design, prototype production and testing cycle, using materials with different characteristics for each iteration. We are particularly proud of being steps ahead of the competition in the field of using aluminum for lighter weight products. These are especially important when it comes to developing components that provide energy- and manpower-savings.
UTPA BUSINESS MODEL
We are a trading company that is extending its business to a global reach, specializing in aluminum and copper materials, as well as processed parts.
We supply non-ferrous materials such as aluminum and copper and processed parts to a wide range of customers. With the unique collection of knowledge of our field that we have accumulated and the many suppliers we can tap in the search for the right deal, we can procure the right product for you from the right place at the right price.
WE SUPPORT ALL KINDS OF PRODUCT MANUFACTURING.
People use lots of non-ferrous metals, including aluminum and copper, every day of their lives. We supply high quality aluminum and copper materials and processed parts that are used every day, in everything from beverage cans to automobiles, aircraft, IT equipment and housing construction. We support sophisticated and specialized product manufacturing with basic materials and processed parts.
WE SUPPLY MATERIALS AND PROCESSED PARTS TAILORED TO OUR CUSTOMERS' REQUIREMENTS.
Sale of basic materials We supply materials like coils of aluminum sheet, molded materials, and copper tubes in the forms the customer needs. In addition to general-purpose products, we can also fill requests for special sizes and materials to meet your particular needs.
Manufacturing and sale of processed products We can finish materials (for example, aluminum coils and formed materials) into parts, using plants we have under contract. We know all the details of these materials' characteristics, so as well as decreasing procurement costs and shortening delivery times, we can arrange a consultation about how to improve the quality of your final product, and how to make production super-efficient.
COORDINATING PRODUCTS FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES
As a procurement agency, we are in contact with many sources. This allows us to coordinate procurement operations, reduce costs, and meet required delivery times. We deal with all the procurement requirements, not only domestic to Japan, but local to you outside Japan. We import, procure, and deliver to our customers. To make this work, our logistic agency service handles the complex trade formalities, and applies for the required import approvals, to make customers' logistics smooth.
