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Sumitomo Metals to Enhance Capabilities of R&D Laboratories

06/25/2010 - Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd. has decided to renew the facilities of its Corporate Research & Development Laboratories at Amagasaki city. Construction work has already started and is expected to be completed in May 2012.

Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd. has decided to renew the facilities of its Corporate Research & Development Laboratories at Amagasaki city. Construction work has already started.
 
The main project of the renewal is to build a new research building and a new laboratory to enhance the technological capabilities of these labs as an “urban-type” research base.
 
The first floor of the new research building will use for the first time the strongest structural steel materials that Sumitomo Metals has developed (SSS1000), to ensure high seismic capacity.
 
Sumitomo Metals developed this product jointly with Osaka University, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Nikken Sekkei Ltd., and Katayama Stratech Corp. By installing the SSS1000 and a vibration control device (called Steel Unbuckling Brace, or SUB) on the first floor, the SUB will absorb most of the seismic energy while pillars made of SSS1000 “swing” during an earthquake.

The company will also use its unique building materials such as a new-structure steel pipe pile installed by the rotary penetration method (GEO-WING PILE™ II) and lightweight welded H-beams (SMart BEAM™) for this construction.
  
Researchers who are currently dispersed among small, old buildings will be consolidated into this new research building.
 
Investment is 10 billion yen, and construction is from June 2010 to May 2012.