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Overview
Nippon Steel is a business holding company, which comprises four businesses.
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.
BAR & WIRE ROD
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 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.
R&D Laboratories
The Nippon Steel Group has research laboratories in Futtsu, Amagasaki and Hasaki. These laboratories lead the world in manufacturing technology development that includes new product development and process improvement, mainly in high-growth sectors, as well as basic research to support these sectors.
