Nippon Steel

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Nippon Steel Corporation (NSC) is a Japanese steel company formed in 2012 with the merger of the original Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal. Nippon Steel Corporation was formed in 1970 with the merger of Fuji Iron & Steel and Yawata Iron & Steel. Nippon Steel Corporation is the world's third largest steel producer by volume as of 2018.

Major plant locations

List of Principle Subsidiaries and Affiliates (as of March 31, 2019).

• Muroran, Hokkaido
• Kamaishi, Iwate
• Kimitsu, Chiba: Kimitsu Steel Works
• Tokyo
• Tōkai, Aichi (Nagoya)
• Sakai, Osaka
• Himeji, Hyogo (Hirohata)
• Hikari, Yamaguchi - steel piping
• Kitakyushu, Fukuoka (Yahata)
• Oita, Oita

Added after Sumitomo merger

• Kashima, Ibaraki
• Jōetsu, Niigata (Naoetsu)
• Amagasaki, Hyōgo
• Osaka
• Wakayama
• Kitakyushu, Fukuoka (Kokura)

Joint ventures

• New Carlisle, Indiana, USA (built 1991)
• AM/NS Calvert. Formerly named ThyssenKrupp Steel USA and located in Calvert, Alabama, the facility was purchased from ThyssenKrupp through a 50/50 joint partnership with ArcelorMittal in February 2014 for $1.5 billion and renamed AM/NS Calvert. A greenfield construction project which began in 2007, the facility began operation in 2010 and has a production capacity of 5.3 million tons and includes a hot strip mill, cold roll mill and 4 coating lines. Products from the facility are marketed in the NAFTA region through managing partner ArcelorMittal.
• Nippon Steel Trading Co., Ltd., has set up a joint venture with three Indonesian local companies to produce 120,000 tons of sheet steel for the automotive industry. Nippon Steel would control a 30 percent share of the joint venture, PT IndoJapan Steel Center. It is located in the Mitra Karawang Industrial Estate, West Java in a 4.8-hectare area with total investment for first phase $38 million and was expected to start operating in January 2013.

Coal interests

Nippon Steel states that in 2010 58% of the Japanese steel industry's imports of coking coal were from Australia with 10% from Canada. Nippon Steel's imports represented 29.5% of the total.

The company lists coal supply projects that it has invested in as being:

• Mount Thorley Warkworth mine in Australia, Rio Tinto Coal Australia, 55.6% NSC 9.5% Other Japanese 34.9% 7 million tonne per annum capacity;
• Hail Creek mine in Australia, Rio Tinto Coal Australia 82.0% NSC 8.0% Other Japanese 10.0% 8 million tonne per annum capacity;
• Moranbah North mine in Australia Anglo American, 88.0% NSC 5.0% Other Japanese 7.0% 5 million tonne per annum capacity;
• Carborough Downs mine in Australia Vale, 80.0% 4 million tonne per annum capacity;
• Integra mine in Australia Vale 61.2% 5 million tonne per annum capacity;
• Bulga mine in Australia Xstrata Coal, 68.3% NSC 12.5% Other Japanese 19.2% 10 million tonne per annum capacity;
• Elkview mine in Canada, Teck Coal Partnership, 95.0% NSC 2.5% POSCO 2.5% 7 million tonne per annum capacity;

External links

• Nippon Steel official website
• History of Nippon Steel from Steel on the Net

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