Capacity Expansion of the Automotive Steel Sheet Joint Venture in China
Sep. 05, 2013
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
Capacity Expansion of the Automotive Steel Sheet Joint Venture in China
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- Name: No. 4 hot-dip galvanizing line (No. 4 CGL)
-Production capacity: 420,000 tons/year
-Investment: about 1,100 million yuan
-Location: site adjacent to the present BNA (within the compound of Baosteel)
-Start of operation: 2015 (plan)
(Reference) Profile of BNA
-Name: Baosteel-NSC Automotive Steel Sheets Co., Ltd.
-Establishment: July 2004
-Business: Manufacture and sale of automotive steel sheet (cold-rolled steel sheet, hot-dip galvanized steel sheet, etc.)
-Product: Cold rolled steel sheet, hot-dip galvanized steel sheet (primarily for automotive use, partly for electric appliances and construction materials)
-Equipment:
Pickling/cold rolling: 2.4 million tons/year
Continuous annealing (C.A.P.L.): 950,000 tons/year
No. 1 hot-dip galvanizing line (No. 1 CGL): 450,000 tons/year
No. 2 hot-dip galvanizing line (No. 2 CGL): 350,000 tons/year
No. 3 hot-dip galvanizing line (No. 3 CGL): 450,000 tons/year (operative in 2010)
-Employees: about 650
-Registered capital: 3,000 million yuan
-Equity ratio: NSSMC 50%, Baosteel 50%
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