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, 2023

Representative Director and Chairman	Kosei SHINDO
Representative Director and President	Eiji HASHIMOTO
Representative Director and Executive Vice President	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	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 Marketing Administration & Planning; Transportation & Logistics; Project Development; Raw Materials; Machinery & Materials Procurement; Steel Products Units; Domestic Office and Branches 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 Head of Research and Development Cooperating with Executive Vice President T. Imai on Green Transformation Development
Representative Director and Executive Vice President	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 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	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)
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

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 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

Principal Subsidiaries and Affiliates(104KB)