Sumitomo Metals Merges with Sumitomo Metals (Kokura) and Sumitomo Metals (Naoetsu) on January 1, 2012

Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd. (Sumitomo Metals), has signed a merger agreement with its wholly owned subsidiaries, Sumitomo Metals (Kokura), Ltd., and Sumitomo Metals (Naoetsu), Ltd. to start the new operation on January 1, 2012, with Sumitomo Metals continuing as the surviving company.

Sumitomo Metals (Kokura), a specialized manufacturer of special steel bars and wire rods, will become the Bar and Wire Rod Company, with Yoshimitsu Kato being its President, while the business of Sumitomo Metals (Naoetsu), production of various products of stainless steel and titanium, will be included in the Stainless Steel and Titanium Division. Yasuyuki Tozaki will become the Division’s General Manager.

Through the merger, the organization will be more unified and management efficiency will be improved.

Merger details
(1) Time of merger: January 1, 2012
(2) Post-merger organization

(Former) Sumitomo Metals (Kokura), Ltd. Sumitomo Metals (Naoetsu), Ltd.※3

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(New) Representative The Bar and Wire Rod Company※１ President Yoshimitsu Kato (Senior Managing Executive Officer of Sumitomo Metals) A part of the Stainless Steel and Titanium Division※2 General Manager Yasuyuki Tozaki (Executive Vice President of Sumitomo Metals)

※1 Newly established internal company.
※2 The present Titanium Division will be reorganized and renamed to the Stainless Steel and Titanium Division.
※3 Kanji Kasahara, president of Sumitomo Metals (Noetsu), Ltd., will become deputy General Manager of the Stainless Steel and Titanium Division and

      General Manager of Naoetsu Steel Works.

Entrance sign of Kokura steel works
Until December 31, 2011		From January 1, 2012