SSC Completes Construction of New Coil Center in Iwate Prefecture, Contributing to Tohoku’s Reconstruction and Toyota’s Car Making

SSC Co., Ltd. (President: Toyoharu Tanimoto) held an inauguration ceremony for its Tohoku Plant in the Esashi Frontier Park, Oushu City, Iwate on Tuesday, July 24, at 10.30 a.m. The opening ceremony was attended by around 50 people including Iwate Governor Takuya Tasso, Oushu Mayor Masaki Ozawa, customers, and people involved in the construction.

SSC is a coil center that is owned and operated by Kanpoh Steel Co., Ltd., Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd. (Sumitomo Metals), Sumitomo Corporation, and Sumikin Bussan Corporation. By establishing a new coil center in the Tohoku region, which is regarded as the third domestic manufacturing base of Toyota Motor Corporation, SSC aims to establish a steel sheet processing base that improves delivery times, reduces transportation costs, and stabilizes supply of steel sheet.

Based on SSC’s accumulated technological capabilities, the new plant will help reconstruct the Tohoku region, which was damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 2011, into a major manufacturing base in Japan.

From left: Seigo Akanuma (Senior Executive Officer of KAJIMA CORPORATION) Toyoharu Tanimoto (President of SSC) Takahiro Tanimoto (President of Kanpoh Steel) Hiroshi Shimozuma (Senior Adviser of Sumitomo Metals) Kazuo Tanakamaru (President of Sumitomo Metal Plant) Yoshiyuki Tenmei (President of Kyowa Seisakusyo)		Hiroshi Shimozuma (Senior Adviser of Sumitomo Metals) pushes the button on the start of operation

1. SSC Co., Ltd.

2. SSC Tohoku Plant