Corporate Profile

Corporate Profile
Executives
Organization
Subsidiaries and Affiliates

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 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 Head of Green Transformation Development
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 Project Leader, Next-Generation Hot Strip Mill Project; Project Leader, Ironmaking Operations Project; Deputy Project Leader, India Iron and Steel Project, Global Business Development Sector Cooperating with Executive Vice President A. Migita on Environment and Green Transformation 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 Accounting & Finance; Overseas Offices (including locally incorporated companies); Global Tubular Business
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 Head of Unit, Flat Products Unit; Deputy Project Leader, Next-Generation Hot Strip Mill Project Cooperating with Executive Vice President T. Mori on Overseas Offices(including locally incorporated companies)
Managing Director, Member of the Board	Tadashi IMAI Corporate Planning Project Leader, Thai Steel Project, Global Business Development Sector ; Vice Head of Green Transformation Development ; Deputy Project Leader, Next-Generation Hot Strip Mill Project Rendering assistance to Executive Vice President A. Migita on Digital Innovation Rendering assistance to Executive Vice President N. Sato on Ironmaking Operations Project Rendering assistance to Executive Vice President K. Fukuda on Corporate Planning in R & D
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 Cooperating with Executive Vice President A. Migita on Green Transformation Development
Managing Executive Officers	Shuji SOHMA Junichi TANI Kazuma YAMANAKA Ichiro SATO Kazumasa SHINKAI Hirofumi FUNAKOSHI Nobuhiro FUJITA Hiroyuki MINATO Shinji MINOBE Hiroshi TSUGA Yuji NOMIYAMA Hidenori KINUGASA Kyoichi ARAKI Takahiko IWAI Seita OUCHI Eiji SOGOH Takeshi IMAI Hidenori OGAWA
Executive Officers	Akihiko KOJIMA Masashi KISHIMOTO Noriyuki HIRAMITSU Eiji ORIHASHI Satoru ENDO Masahiro NAKATA Tsuyoshi HARADA Kenichi HOSHI Kenichi ONODA Takahisa OHNO Hiroto SONODA Masashi IMOTO Ryuichi NAGAI Hiroto NAITOH Nobuo OKOCHI Ken ITO Kohji MIZOGUCHI Kentaro WAKAMATSU Masato KOBAYASHI Tadamitsu MIYOSHI

Fellows

Hideki MURAKAMI
Katsuhiro SASAI
Naoki YOSHINAGA
Kaori KAWANO
Seiji NOMURA
Shunji HIWATASHI

Organization

Organization Chart(84KB)

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 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.

Subsidiaries and Affiliates

Principal Subsidiaries and Affiliates(104KB)