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 |
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| Head Office | 2-6-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8071, Japan 1-8-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan（Stainless Steel Unit） |
| Leadership | Representative Director, President and COO : Tadashi IMAI |
| 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 April 1, 2025
| Representative Director, Chairman and CEO |
 Eiji HASHIMOTO |
| Representative Director, President and COO |
 Tadashi IMAI |
| Representative Director, Vice Chairman and Executive Vice President |
 Takahiro MORI
Rendering assistance to Chairman and CEO, and cooperating with President and COO on large-scale overseas projects |
| Representative Director and Executive Vice President |
 Naoki SATO
Digital Innovation; Information & Communication Technology; Plant Engineering and Facility Management; Plant/Machinery Engineering & Construction Management; |
| Representative Director and Executive Vice President |
 Takashi HIROSE
Marketing Administration & Planning; Transportation & Logistics; Project Development; Raw Materials; Raw Materials Business Development; |
| Representative Director and Executive Vice President |
 Hirofumi FUNAKOSHI
Corporate Planning; Group Companies Planning; General Administration; Corporate Communications; Legal; Internal Control & Audit; |
| Representative Director and Executive Vice President |
 Hiroyuki MINATO
Intellectual Property; Safety, Environment & Plant Safety; Technical Administration & Planning; Quality Management; Ironmaking Technology; Steelmaking Technology; Energy Technology; Slag, Cement & Resource Recycling; Technical issues concerning Green Transformation Development |
| Director, Member of the Board |
 Kazuhisa FUKUDA Advisor to the President |
| Director, Member of the Board |
 Tetsuro TOMITA (Outside Director) |
| Director, Member of the Board |
 Kuniko URANO (Outside Director) |
| Director, Member of the Board (Senior Audit & Supervisory Committee Member) |
 Kazumasa SHINKAI |
| Director, Member of the Board (Senior Audit & Supervisory Committee Member) |
 Eiji SOGOH |
| Director, Member of the Board (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member) |
 Kenji HIRAMATSU (Outside Audit & Supervisory Committee Member) |
| Director, Member of the Board (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member) |
 Aiko SEKINE (Outside Audit & Supervisory Committee Member) |
| Director, Member of the Board (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member) |
 Sumiko TAKEUCHI (Outside Audit & Supervisory Committee Member) |
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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. |
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| 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. |