The company traces its origins to Furukawa Ichibei who founded Nikko Copper Works, a copper-smelting facility at Yokohama in 1884, which became part of Furukuwa Kogyo.

A new company; Furukuwa Denki Kogyo, was formed in 1920, when it merged its copper business with its own Yokohoma Wire Manufacturing Company, which it had acquired in 1908.

[3] So, the new company was able to combine its businesses of mining, refining, and making copper products, like wire and cable.

[5] Furukawa Electric aids CERN's experiments on the search for the Higgs boson with its superconducting magnet wires.

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