Nippon East Japan Works (Kashima) steel plant

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Nippon East Japan Works (Kashima) steel plant (东日本制铁所鹿岛地区 (Chinese) and 東日本製鉄所鹿島地区 (Japanese)), also known as East Nippon Works Kashima Area and Kashima Nippon Stainless Steel Corporation, is a 7162 thousand tonnes per annum (TTPA) blast furnace (BF) and basic oxygen furnace (BOF) steel plant operating in Kashima, Kantō, Japan.

Location

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  • Location: 3 Hikari, Kashima-shi, Ibaraki Pref., Japan 314-0014[1]
  • Coordinates (WGS 84): 35.934370, 140.681019 (exact)

Background

Kashima Works was established in 1968.[2] In March 2021, Nippon Steel Corporation announced plans to shutdown one of the blast furnaces at Nippon Kashima Works steel plant (aka East Nippon Works) by the end of 2024,[3] but in February 2023 they walked this back, stating that they have no immediate plans to shut down the No. 3 blast furnace. [4]

In September 2023, the company announced the closure of the blast furnace at Kashima Works by the end of March 2025.[5]


Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Plant status Start date Workforce size Power source
operating[6] 1969[7] 3042[8] in-plant power generation, also provides power generated via coal and bio-mass to Tokyo Electric Power[8]

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Parent company Parent company PermID Owner Owner company PermID
Nippon Steel Corp [100%][9] 4295877313 [100%] Nippon Steel Corp[6] 4295877313

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category Steel products Main production equipment Detailed production equipment
semi-finished; finished rolled[10] cold-rolled stainless steel sheets[10] blast furnace (BF) and basic oxygen furnace (BOF)[8] 2 coking plants (plant #1 began in 2016, plant #2 began in 2018 and planned shutdown by Mar. 31, 2025); 5 BOF (3x250-tonne, 2x345-tonne; 3 BOF in steelmaking plant 1 to be shutdown by Mar. 31, 2025); sinter plant (No. 3 to be shutdown by Mar. 31, 2025)[7][11][8]

Table 4: Crude Steel Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum):

Basic oxygen furnace steelmaking capacity Nominal crude steel capacity (total)
7162 TTPA[8] 7162 TTPA

Table 5: Crude Iron Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum):

Blast furnace capacity Nominal iron capacity (total)
9792 TTPA[8][12] 9792 TTPA

Table 6: Upstream Products Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)

Sinter Coke
>0 TTPA[7] 920 TTPA[8]

Table 7: Actual Crude Steel Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum):

Year BOF Production EAF Production OHF Production Total (all routes)
2020 4447 TTPA[13] 4447 TTPA
2021 6985 TTPA[14] 6985 TTPA


Blast Furnace Details

Table 8: Blast Furnace Details:

Unit name Status Start date Current size Current capacity
1 operating[14] 1971[14] 5370 m³[7][11][8] 4896 TTPA[12]
3 operating[14] 1976[14] 5370 m³[7][11][8] 4896 TTPA[12]

Articles and Resources

References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20220112201309/https://www.nipponsteel.com/en/works/index.html. Archived from the original on 2022-01-12. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. "Basic Facts About Nippon Steel" (PDF). Nippon Steel. 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. Nippon Steel cuts capacity 20% for zero-carbon future, Sotaro Yumae and Tsukasa Morikuni, NikkeiASIA, Mar. 6, 2021, Retrieved on: May 20, 2021
  4. "Nippon Denies Kashima Blast Furnace Closure". Kallanish. February 19, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. Author, No (2023-09-30). "Nippon Steel shuts historic Kure plant in western Japan". The Japan Times. Retrieved 2024-02-21. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  6. 6.0 6.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20211019104803/https://www.nipponsteel.com/works/east_nippon/index.html. Archived from the original on 2021-10-19. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20220130014556/https://www.nipponsteel.com/en/ir/library/pdf/nsc_en_ir_2021_a3.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-01-30. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20200614234628/https://www.nipponsteel.com/en/ir/library/pdf/factbook2019_all.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-06-14. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. https://web.archive.org/web/20220320173301/https://www.nipponsteel.com/en/company/. Archived from the original on 2022-03-20. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. 10.0 10.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20190414044000/http://nssc.nssmc.com:80/en/company/plants/kashima.php. Archived from the original on 2019-04-14. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 https://web.archive.org/web/20220127012919/https://www.nipponsteel.com/works/east_nippon/kashima/about/history.html. Archived from the original on 2022-01-27. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 https://web.archive.org/web/20220722183713/https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/blast-furnace. Archived from the original on 2022-07-22. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  13. https://web.archive.org/web/20220318092755/https://www.nipponsteel.com/en/factbook/11-04.html. Archived from the original on 2022-03-18. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  14. 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 https://www.nipponsteel.com/en/factbook/2022/11-04.html. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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Additional data

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