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Message from the President

Sato Metal Trading Co., Ltd. Representative Director and President Tamotsu Sato

Ever since our company was founded in 1923, we have dealt in non-ferrous metals of all types as a trading company specialized in them, including everything from copper, lead, zinc, aluminum, and other base metals to gold, silver, platinum, and other precious metals.
In recent years, we have started supplying a diverse range of products that include not only metal materials but also cast, forged, cut, pressed, molded, and other processed products as well as new materials, electronic materials, automobile-related parts, various other parts, and optical fibers.

Ever since our company was founded, we have always remembered to be grateful as we go about our work. This sense of gratitude is a basic element of business as well as a basic element of humanity. I take pride in the fact that Sato Metal Trading has grown to be a company trusted by everyone precisely because we have always valued this sense of gratitude and worked hard to express it.

Another thing our company values is the power of human resources. To a trading company that has no production equipment, there is no asset more valuable than human resources. Up until now, we have built our company on a foundation (philosophy) of family-like management based on lifetime employment, and we have built relationships of trust between employees and the company while striving to create a situation ideal for enabling our employees to approach their work passionately and with dreams of the future while fully demonstrating their individual abilities. I take pride in the fact that—as a result of being raised in this environment—our company's employees possess product-development capabilities, technical capabilities, and mobility unrivaled by other companies.

The times and society are rapidly changing, and the combination of this with globalization in recent years is resulting in business becoming much more complex, diverse, and sophisticated. In addition, for trading companies like ours, it is essential to actively deal with comprehensive quality control and environmental problems.

I sincerely hope that our company will continue to respond to the individual needs of our changing times while contributing both to our customers and society as we go on valuing a sense of gratitude and the power of human resources, which are the basis of Sato Metal Trading.