M it s u b i s h i u n S u b s i d i a r i e s i n C h i n a

By Xie Jun

Certain Chinese subsidiaries of Mitsubishi Materials Group (MMG) have sought to draw distinctions between their products and those of the 146-year-old Japanese material manufacturer after MMG admitted that two of its business units had manipulated data about their products.

A management executive at the Mitsubishi Materials (Shanghai) Corp, a subsidiary of MMG, stressed to the Global Times on Monday that what Mitsubishi Materials (Shanghai) sells (mostly superhard cutting tools), have nothing to do with products for which data was manipulated.

She also acknowledged that MMG has launched an investigation into which clients, including those in China, were affected by the data manipulation scandal. So far she has not heard of any results.

A spokesperson at the Lingqing Material (Shanghai) Trade Co, also a subsidiary of MMG, told the Global Times on Monday that it mostly sells electronic components in China, which are totally different products from those involved in the scandal.

“We have independent business from the units [involved in the data manipulation scandal], although we are affiliated with the same firm,” he said.

An employee at Tianjin Tianling Superhard Tool Co, another subsidiary of MMG, said that the unit only does original equipment manufacturing for MMG.

“All the products we manufacture are shipped back to Japan and are not sold here in China,” she told the

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