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Steelmaking Operations

Iron and Steel Statistics

(1,000 tons, %)

Fiscal year	2020		2021		2022
Market		(% of total)		(% of total)		(% of total)
Construction	18,701	44.6	19,169	44.5	18,980	44.0
Building construction	12,241	29.2	13,360	31.0	12,930	30.0
Civil engineering	6,460	15.4	6,278	14.6	6,050	14.0
Shipbuilding	3,251	7.8	3,083	7.2	2,800	6.5
Automobiles	9,171	21.9	8,969	20.8	9,430	21.9
Industrial machinery	4,259	10.2	4,990	11.6	5,110	11.8
Electrical machinery	2,756	6.6	2,890	6.7	2,910	6.7
Secondary processing	1,828	4.4	1,949	4.5	1,900	4.4
Others	1,918	4.6	1,569	3.6	2,000	4.6
Total	41,894	100.0	43,088	100.0	43,130	100.0

Fiscal year	2017	2018	2019
Market	2017	2018	2019
Construction	21,666	21,192	20,074
Building construction	14,818	14,473	13,560
Civil engineering	6,848	6,719	6,514
Shipbuilding	4,077	3,967	4,063
Automobiles	11,314	11,419	10,689
Industrial machinery	5,047	5,180	4,680
Electrical machinery	3,098	3,077	2,949
Secondary processing	2,261	2,233	2,094
Others	2,282	2,201	2,146
Total	49,745	49,269	46,695

Source: The Japan Iron and Steel Federation

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

(1,000 tons)

Fiscal year	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Type of product	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Ordinary steel products	43,981	43,551	39,666	36,116	38,313
Rails	195	186	196	180	144
Sheet piles	431	466	441	415	397
H beams	3,563	3,538	3,146	3,015	3,144
Shapes	1,784	1,803	1,604	1,487	1,432
Bars	7,400	7,480	6,822	6,827	6,853
Wire rods	1,518	1,200	1,095	1,148	1,208
Plates	7,573	7,898	7,250	6,332	6,689
Hot-rolled sheets and coils	5,843	5,655	4,918	4,436	5,081
Cold-rolled sheets and coils	2,841	2,714	2,458	2,140	2,424
Electrical sheets	537	554	573	531	634
Tinplate	670	626	637	520	563
Galvanized sheets	367	365	306	237	314
Other coated sheets	8,326	8,141	7,586	6,515	6,902
Pipes and tubes	2,935	2,926	2,635	2,334	2,528
Specialty steel products	12,258	12,713	10,891	9,985	11,803
Structural steel	6,604	7,029	5,771	5,376	6,482
Stainless steel	1,574	1,484	1,330	1,207	1,492
Free-cutting steel	478	463	389	342	406
High-strength steel	1,936	1,962	1,925	1,714	1,788
Others	1,666	1,775	1,476	1,347	1,635
Total	56,239	56,265	50,557	46,101	50,117

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