NSSMC Achieves Record-high Production in Fiscal 2014

Apr. 24, 2015

Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation

NSSMC Achieves Record-high Production in Fiscal 2014

Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (President: Kosei Shindo, NSSMC) has achieved record-high annual production volumes for the following items in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2015 (fiscal 2014). Details are as follows.

These record-high production volumes have been reached as the operating, maintenance, and production control divisions have strived hard and made improvement with ideas and efforts, together with partner companies, and as the steel works maximized their integrated capacity, encompassing from molten pig iron tapping to molten steel tapping, hot rolling, and shipment.

1. Wakayama Works

	New record-high annual volume	Previous record-high
Molten pig iron tapping volume	4,618,000 tons (fiscal 2014)	4,545,600 tons (fiscal 2011)
Molten steel tapping volume	4,732,000 tons (fiscal 2014)	4,641,800 tons (fiscal 2011)
* The above two records are the highest since 1990 when the two blast furnace production system started.

2. Kimitsu Works

	New record-high annual volume	Previous record-high
Hot-rolling volume	5,045,800 tons (fiscal 2014)	5,032,900 tons (fiscal 1988)