Sumitomo Metals stations its own engineers at the customers’ sites for design and development, and works together with their staff on tasks from material proposals to part proposals and even proposals for automobile structures. Our dispatched engineers are supported by our own development, manufacturing, sales, and technical departments to better assist customers. Sumitomo Metals refers to these specialists as “guest engineers,” and we were the first company to offer this kind of “Before Service” that includes this highly effective organizational support system. We are recognized by our customers as being in the world’s top class regarding steel application technologies for automobile manufacturing.
