Current retrieval situation on the production at Nagoya Works of Nippon Steel Corporation

As of September 7th， 2003， Nippon Steel has restarted the operation of the following facilities at Nagoya Works.

Further， in order to avoid any inconvenience to our customers， we are taking all possible measures to retrieve the rest of the facilities that are currently under the preparation as soon as possible.

We are planning to explain our retrieval condition of Nagoya Works on and after September 8th.


【The Facilities which we have restarted the operation】

1. Since the operation of the coke oven facilities was restarted on September 4th， the following facilities that utilize the coke-oven-gas as fuel have been retrieved gradually after 11:00 pm on September 6th.
- Continuous Annealing and Processing Lines (#1 C.A.P.L. and #2 C.A.P.L.)
- Continuous Galvanizing Lines (#1 CGL and #5CGL)

2. From 0:00 am on September 6th， one of the two blast furnaces at Nagoya Works was restarted its production. We are operating the steel making plants smoothly at the appropriate rate that keeps the balances of the blast furnace production.

3. The facilities that do not use the fuel gas such as cold-strip mill， tin-plate mill， and pipe mill， were retrieved their productions gradually after 7:00 am on September 4th.

4. Hot-strip mill and heavy plate mill that require the coke-oven-gas as fuel are currently under the preparation for the early recovery.

For further information: P.R.Center +81-3-3275-5021/5022/5023