Corporate Profile

Corporate Profile

With manufacturing bases in Japan and 15 countries or more worldwide, Nippon Steel Corporation is Japan’s largest steelmaker and one of the world’s leading steel producers. Our group—the Nippon Steel Group—does business in four areas, starting with our core segment of Steelmaking and Steel Fabrication and including Engineering and Construction, Chemicals and Materials, and System Solutions. We undertake these businesses based on four pillars laid out in our Medium- to Long-term Management Plan: 1) rebuilding our domestic steel business and strengthening our group’s management, 2) promoting a global strategy to deepen and expand our overseas business, 3) taking on the challenge of carbon neutrality and, 4) promoting digital transformation strategies. With the aim of continually growing to become the “best steelmaker with world-leading capabilities,” we will pursue world-leading technologies and manufacturing capabilities and contribute to society by providing excellent products and services.

Company Name NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
Head Office 2-6-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8071, Japan
Leadership President : Eiji Hashimoto
Business Steelmaking and steel fabrication / Engineering / Chemicals / New materials / System solutions
Fiscal Year End March 31
Stock Listings Tokyo, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Sapporo

Executives

As of January 12, 2024

Representative Director and Chairman
進藤 孝生

Kosei SHINDO

Representative Director and President
橋本 英二

Eiji HASHIMOTO

Representative Director and Executive Vice President
佐藤 直樹

Naoki SATO

Digital Innovation; Information & Communication Technology; Intellectual Property; Safety; Environmental Technology & Management; Plant Safety; Technical Administration & Planning (including Standardization); Quality Management; Plant Engineering and Facility Management; Ironmaking Technology; Steelmaking Technology; Energy Technology; Slag, Cement & Resource Recycling
Project Leader, Next-Generation Hot Strip Mill Project; Project Leader, Ironmaking Operations Project; Deputy Project Leader, India Project, Global Business Development Sector
Cooperating with Executive Vice President T. Imai on Green Transformation Development
Cooperating with Executive Vice President H. Funakoshi on Environmental Planning

Representative Director and Executive Vice President
森 高弘

Takahiro MORI

Head of Global Business Development; Project Leader, India Project, Global Business Development Sector
Accounting & Finance; Overseas Offices(including locally incorporated companies)

Representative Director and Executive Vice President
Takashi HIROSE

Takashi HIROSE

Marketing Administration & Planning; Transportation & Logistics; Project Development; Raw Materials; Machinery & Materials Procurement; Steel Products Units; Domestic Office and Branches
Head of Unit, Pipe & Tube Unit; Deputy Project Leader, Next-Generation Hot Strip Mill Project
Cooperating with Executive Vice President T. Mori on Overseas Offices(including locally incorporated companies)

Representative Director and Executive Vice President
Kazuhisa FUKUDA

Kazuhisa FUKUDA

Head of Research and Development
Cooperating with Executive Vice President T. Imai on Green Transformation Development

Representative Director and Executive Vice President
Tadashi IMAI

Tadashi IMAI

Head of Green Transformation Development; Project Leader, Electric Furnace Project; Deputy Project Leader, Next-Generation Hot Strip Mill Project
Cooperating with Executive Vice President H. Funakoshi on Production & Facilities Planning concerning Corporate Planning

Representative Director and Executive Vice President
Hirofumi FUNAKOSHI<

Hirofumi FUNAKOSHI

Corporate Planning; Group Companies Planning; General Administration; Legal; Internal Control & Audit; Human Resources; Environmental Planning; Business Transformation & Standardization
Cooperating with Executive Vice President N. Sato on Environmental Technology & Management
Cooperating with Executive Vice President T. Imai on Green Transformation Development

Director, Member of the Board
冨田 哲郎

Tetsuro TOMITA

(Outside Director)

Director, Member of the Board
 Kuniko URANO

Kuniko URANO

(Outside Director)

Director, Member of the Board (Senior Audit & Supervisory Committee Member)
Shozo FURUMOTO

Shozo FURUMOTO

Director, Member of the Board (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member)
Masayoshi MURASE

Masayoshi MURASE

Director, Member of the Board (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member)
Seiichiro AZUMA

Seiichiro AZUMA

(Outside Audit & Supervisory Committee Member)

Director, Member of the Board (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member)
Hiroshi YOSHIKAWA

Hiroshi YOSHIKAWA

(Outside Audit & Supervisory Committee Member)

Director, Member of the Board (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member)
Masato KITERA

Masato KITERA

(Outside Audit & Supervisory Committee Member)

Managing Executive Officers
  • Junichi TANI
  • Ichiro SATO
  • Kazumasa SHINKAI
  • Nobuhiro FUJITA
  • Hiroyuki MINATO
  • Hiroshi TSUGA
  • Yuji NOMIYAMA
  • Hidenori KINUGASA
  • Kyoichi ARAKI
  • Takahiko IWAI
  • Seita OUCHI
  • Eiji SOGOH
  • Takeshi IMAI
  • Hidenori OGAWA
  • Akihiko KOJIMA
  • Masashi KISHIMOTO
  • Noriyuki HIRAMITSU
  • Eiji ORIHASHI
  • Satoru ENDO
  • Masahiro NAKATA
  • Tsuyoshi HARADA
Executive Officers
  • Kenichi ONODA
  • Takahisa OHNO
  • Hiroto SONODA
  • Masashi IMOTO
  • Ryuichi NAGAI
  • Hiroto NAITOH
  • Nobuo OKOCHI
  • Ken ITO
  • Kohji MIZOGUCHI
  • Kentaro WAKAMATSU
  • Masato KOBAYASHI
  • Tadamitsu MIYOSHI
  • Jiro KOBAYASHI
  • Takeo HOSHINO
  • Keiji TANAKA
  • Yasushi KURITA
  • Shigekazu IWAMOTO
  • Yasunari SHIGETA
  • Akihiro UENISHI
Fellows
  • Katsuhiro SASAI
  • Naoki YOSHINAGA
  • Kaori KAWANO
  • Seiji NOMURA
  • Shunji HIWATASHI

Organization

Plate & Construction Products Through the delivery of high-performance steels such as plates, H-beams, sheet piles, pipe piles, and rails, Nippon Steel contributes to the building and development of a wide range of infrastructure in such fields as ships; energy, e.g., wind power; construction; and railways, thereby securing the foundation of people’s lives.
Flat Products Nippon Steel supports various industries and people’s lives by delivering steel sheet used to make automobiles, electrical appliances, housing, beverage cans, transformers, and other goods. Having production and processing bases worldwide, this unit provides high quality, high-performance products and services in Japan and overseas.
Bars & Wire Rods Nippon Steel delivers high-quality high-performance bars and rods to a wide range of industries including the automotive, construction, and industrial machinery industries. In the automotive business, this unit focuses on high end products used in important automotive components such as engines, drive trains, and suspensions.
Pipes & Tubes Nippon Steel is a world-leader in the high-end seamless pipes usedin oil and gas development and for fossil fuels in coal fired power generation, as well as for carbon capture and storage (CCS),geothermal and biomass power generation, hydrogen stations, and other purposes. We also provide high-quality, high-performance products and services to the automotive,construction, industrial machinery and other industries.
Railway, Automotive & Machinery Parts Nippon Steel is the only manufacturer of railway steel wheels and axles in Japan. This unit's major products are railway rolling stock components and forged crankshafts for automobiles. The unit has two manufacturing bases for railway wheels and axles, and four bases for crankshafts in the world.
Titanium In addition to titanium’s lighter, high-strength, and extremely corrosion-resistant properties, Nippon Steel is utilizing the technologies accumulated in its long history of steelmaking to be a world-leader in titanium products for industrial machinery/plants, building materials, automobiles, and aerospace.
Stainless
Steel
Nippon Steel Stainless Steel Corporation provides steel customers with a wide range of high-quality stainless steel products that includes steel plates, sheets, bars, and wire rods by leveraging its most advanced technologies in the world. This subsidiary has developed the world’s first Sn-added low-interstitial ferritic steel grades, named the “FW (forward) series,” and a new type of duplex stainless steel.

Subsidiaries and Affiliates