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Steelmaking Operations

Iron and Steel Statistics

(1,000 tons, %)

Fiscal year	2019		2020		2021
Market		(% of total)		(% of total)		(% of total)
Construction	20,074	43.0	18,701	44.6	20,110	46.0
Building construction	13,560	29.0	12,241	29.2	13,360	30.6
Civil engineering	6,514	14.0	6,460	15.4	6,750	15.5
Shipbuilding	4,063	8.7	3,251	7.8	2,820	6.5
Automobiles	10,689	22.9	9,171	21.9	9,020	20.7
Industrial machinery	4,680	10.0	4,259	10.2	4,910	11.2
Electrical machinery	2,949	6.3	2,756	6.6	2,810	6.4
Secondary processing	2,094	4.5	1,828	4.4	1,950	4.5
Others	2,146	4.6	1,918	4.6	2,050	4.7
Total	46,695	100.0	41,894	100.0	43,670	100.0

Fiscal year	2016	2017	2018
Market	2016	2017	2018
Construction	21,570	21,666	21,192
Building construction	14,720	14,818	14,473
Civil engineering	6,850	6,848	6,719
Shipbuilding	4,329	4,077	3,967
Automobiles	10,954	11,314	11,419
Industrial machinery	4,592	5,047	5,180
Electrical machinery	2,968	3,098	3,077
Secondary processing	2,239	2,261	2,233
Others	2,357	2,282	2,201
Total	49,009	49,745	49,269

Source: The Japan Iron and Steel Federation

Note: Figures for fiscal 2020 are estimates by Nippon Steel.

(1,000 tons)

Fiscal year	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Type of product	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Ordinary steel products	43,655	43,981	43,551	39,666	36,116
Rails	188	195	186	196	180
Sheet piles	507	431	466	441	415
H beams	3,433	3,563	3,538	3,146	3,015
Shapes	1,825	1,784	1,803	1,604	1,487
Bars	7,427	7,400	7,480	6,822	6,827
Wire rods	1,555	1,518	1,200	1,095	1,148
Plates	7,634	7,573	7,898	7,250	6,332
Hot-rolled sheets and coils	5,763	5,843	5,655	4,918	4,436
Cold-rolled sheets and coils	2,775	2,841	2,714	2,458	2,140
Electrical sheets	502	537	554	573	531
Tinplate	696	670	626	637	520
Galvanized sheets	381	367	365	306	237
Other coated sheets	8,066	8,326	8,141	7,586	6,515
Pipes and tubes	2,902	2,935	2,926	2,635	2,334
Specialty steel products	12,013	12,258	12,713	10,891	9,985
Structural steel	6,540	6,604	7,029	5,771	5,376
Stainless steel	1,562	1,574	1,484	1,330	1,207
Free-cutting steel	452	478	463	389	342
High-strength steel	1,833	1,936	1,962	1,925	1,714
Others	1,626	1,666	1,775	1,476	1,347
Total	55,668	56,239	56,265	50,557	46,101

Fiscal year	2000	2005	2010
Type of product	2000	2005	2010
Ordinary steel products	56,535	54,976	44,259
Rails	216	213	218
Sheet piles	734	646	354
H beams	4,720	3,924	2,666
Shapes	3,136	2,659	1,906
Bars	11,070	10,061	7,511
Wire rods	3,013	2,337	1,643
Plates	7,250	9,246	8,983
Hot-rolled sheets and coils	6,844	6,798	5,794
Cold-rolled sheets and coils	3,996	4,089	3,231
Electrical sheets	617	588	514
Tinplate	1,441	1,084	982
Galvanized sheets	1,052	607	389
Other coated sheets	8,169	8,828	7,359
Pipes and tubes	4,277	3,896	2,710
Specialty steel products	9,949	13,257	12,308
Structural steel	4,733	7,044	6,558
Stainless steel	1,548	1,555	1,527
Free-cutting steel	760	857	576
High-strength steel	1,063	1,630	1,714
Others	1,845	2,171	1,932
Total	66,484	68,233	56,566

Source：The Japan Iron and Steel Federation