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 |
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 June 23, 2022
Representative Director and Chairman |
![]() Kosei SHINDO |
Representative Director and President |
![]() Eiji HASHIMOTO |
Representative Director and Executive Vice President |
![]() Akio MIGITA Corporate Planning; Group Companies Planning; General Administration; Legal; Internal Control & Audit; Digital Innovation; Information & Communication Technology; Human Resources; Environment; Business Transformation & Standardization |
Representative Director and Executive Vice President |
![]() Naoki SATO Intellectual Property; Safety; Plant Safety; Technical Administration & Planning (including Standardization); Quality Management; Plant Engineering and Facility Management; Ironmaking Technology; Steelmaking Technology; Energy Technology; Slag, Cement & Resource Recycling; Research and Development |
Representative Director and Executive Vice President |
![]() Takahiro MORI Head of Global Business Development; Project Leader, India Iron and Steel Project, Global Business Development Sector |
Representative Director and Executive Vice President |
![]() Takashi HIROSE Marketing Administration & Planning; Transportation & Logistics; Project Development; Raw Materials; Machinery & Materials Procurement; Steel Products Units; Domestic Office and Branches |
Managing Director, Member of the Board |
![]() Tadashi IMAI Corporate Planning |
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) |
![]() Shozo FURUMOTO |
Director, Member of the Board (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member) |
![]() Masayoshi MURASE |
Director, Member of the Board (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member) |
![]() Seiichiro AZUMA (Outside Audit & Supervisory Committee Member) |
Director, Member of the Board (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member) |
![]() Hiroshi YOSHIKAWA (Outside Audit & Supervisory Committee Member) |
Director, Member of the Board (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member) |
![]() Masato KITERA (Outside Audit & Supervisory Committee Member) |
Executive Vice President |
Kazuhisa FUKUDA Head of Research and Development |
Managing Executive Officers |
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Executive Officers |
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Fellows |
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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 high-end seamless pipes used in oil and gas development and other energy areas. We respond to diverse needs such as pipelines, steel tubes for automobiles, and steel tubes for construction and industrial machinery, we provide high-quality, high-performance products and services in Japan and oversea. |
Railway, Automotive & Machinery Pars | 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. |