Nippon Kansai Works (Wakayama Area, Wakayama) steel plant

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Nippon Kansai Works (Wakayama Area, Wakayama) steel plant (关西制铁所和歌山地区(和歌山) (Chinese); 関西製鉄所和歌山地区(和歌山) (Japanese)), also known as Kansai Works (Wakayama), Wakayama Works (Wakayama Area), is a blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace (BF-BOF) and electric arc furnace (EAF) steel plant operating in Wakayama, Kansai, Japan.

Location

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  • Location: 1850 Minato, Wakayama City, Wakayama Pref. 640-8555 Japan
  • Coordinates (WGS 84): 34.233519, 135.135443 (exact)

Background

In March 2021, Nippon Steel Corporation announced plans to shutdown one of the blast furnaces (BF#1) at Nippon Wakayama Works steel plant (aka Kansai Works) in the first half of FY2021.[1] It was shut down in September 2021.[2] The Nippon Kansai Works (Wakayama Area, Wakayama) steel plant consists of three facilities (Hainan, Sakai, Wakayama) but the Hainan and Sakai plants are for downstream processing only.

Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Plant status Start date Workforce size Iron ore source
Operating[3] 1942[3] 3167[4] Imported from Australia, Brazil and India[5]
Operating[3] 1942[3] 3167[4] Imported from Australia, Brazil and India[5]

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Parent company Parent company PermID Parent company GEM ID Owner Owner company PermID Owner company GEM ID
Nippon Steel Corp [100%] 4295877313 [100%] E100001000178 [15%] Nippon Steel Corp[6] 4295877313 E100000000652

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category Steel products Steel sector end users ISO 14001 Main production equipment Detailed production equipment
semi-finished; finished rolled[6] seamless pipes, H-shaped steel hyperbeems, steel sheet piles[6] building and infrastructure; transport[6] 2021[7] BF, BOF, EAF[6][8] 3 BOF (3x260-tonne); 1 EAF (80-tonne); 2 coke ovens (No.5 mothballed in FY2021 H1; No. 4 to be mothballed in FY2022 H1); 2 sinter plant; 1 BF[8][9][10][11]
semi-finished; finished rolled[6] seamless pipes, H-shaped steel hyperbeems, steel sheet piles[6] building and infrastructure; transport[6] 2021[7] BF, BOF, EAF[6][8] 3 BOF (3x260-tonne); 1 EAF (80-tonne); 2 coke ovens (No.5 mothballed in FY2021 H1; No. 4 to be mothballed in FY2022 H1); 2 sinter plant; 1 BF[8][9][10][11]

Table 4: Crude Steel Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)

*Please see our Frequently Asked Questions page for an explanation of the different capacity operating statuses.
Capacity operating status* Basic oxygen furnace steelmaking capacity Electric arc furnace steelmaking capacity Nominal crude steel capacity (total)
operating 4570 TTPA[12][13][14] 920 TTPA[15] 5490 TTPA[16][17][18]
mothballed –[19][20][21] –[22] –[23][24][25]

Table 5: Crude Iron Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)

*Please see our Frequently Asked Questions page for an explanation of the different capacity operating statuses.
Capacity operating status* Blast furnace capacity Nominal iron capacity (total)
operating 2100 TTPA[26][26] 2100 TTPA[26][26]
mothballed 2100 TTPA[26][26] 2100 TTPA[26][26]

Table 6: Upstream Products Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)

Sinter Coke
>0 TTPA[11] >0 TTPA[11]
>0 TTPA[11] >0 TTPA[11]

Table 7: Actual Crude Steel Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum)

Year BOF Production EAF Production Total (all routes)
2020 2443 TTPA[27] 251 TTPA[27] 2694 TTPA
2021 2478 TTPA[3] 254 TTPA[3] 2732 TTPA
2022 2401 TTPA[28] 246 TTPA[28] 2647 TTPA

Blast Furnace Details

Table 8: Blast Furnace Details

Unit name Status Announced date Construction date Start date Current size Current capacity (ttpa) Decarbonization technology Most recent relining
1 mothballed[29] unknown unknown 1961[10] 3700 m³[30] 2100[26] unknown 2009-07[10][31]
2 operating[8][9][10][11] unknown unknown 1963[32] 3700 m³[32] 2100[26] unknown 2019-02[28]

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References

  1. ↑ Nippon Steel cuts capacity 20% for zero-carbon future, Sotaro Yumae and Tsukasa Morikuni, NikkeiASIA, Mar. 6, 2021, Retrieved on: May 20, 2021
  2. ↑ "Integrated Report 2021" (PDF). Nippon Steel. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 20, 2022. Retrieved March 20, 2022.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 https://www.nipponsteel.com/en/factbook/2022/11-04.html. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20220120194201/https://www.nipponsteel.com/en/factbook/09-01.html. Archived from the original on 20 January 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20240124203736/https://www.nipponsteel.com/en/factbook/2023/11-06.html. Archived from the original on 24 January 2024. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 https://web.archive.org/web/20200929021544/https://www.nipponsteel.com/works/kansai/wakayama/about/outline.html. Archived from the original on 29 September 2020. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20200923065234/https://www.nipponsteel.com/works/kansai/wakayama/iso/index.html. Archived from the original on 23 September 2020. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20200614234628/https://www.nipponsteel.com/en/ir/library/pdf/factbook2019_all.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 June 2020. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 https://web.archive.org/web/20220127010837/https://www.nipponsteel.com/works/kansai/wakayama/about/history.html. Archived from the original on 27 January 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20220130014556/https://www.nipponsteel.com/en/ir/library/pdf/nsc_en_ir_2021_a3.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 January 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 (PDF) https://www.nipponsteel.com/company/publications/works_brochure/kansai_wakayama.pdf. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. ↑ Estimated using highest real production in last 5 years
  13. ↑ Estimated using highest real production in last 5 years
  14. ↑ Estimated using highest real production in last 5 years
  15. ↑ Estimated as total EAF charge volume x 1.15 x 10000/year
  16. ↑ Estimated using highest real production in last 5 years
  17. ↑ Estimated using highest real production in last 5 years
  18. ↑ Estimated using highest real production in last 5 yearsEstimated as total EAF charge volume x 1.15 x 10000/year
  19. ↑ Estimated using highest real production in last 5 years
  20. ↑ Estimated using highest real production in last 5 years
  21. ↑ Estimated using highest real production in last 5 years
  22. ↑ Estimated as total EAF charge volume x 1.15 x 10000/year
  23. ↑ Estimated using highest real production in last 5 years
  24. ↑ Estimated using highest real production in last 5 years
  25. ↑ Estimated using highest real production in last 5 yearsEstimated as total EAF charge volume x 1.15 x 10000/year
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 26.3 26.4 26.5 26.6 26.7 26.8 26.9 https://www.cxrefractories.com/en-refractory-news?article_id=1209. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20220318092755/https://www.nipponsteel.com/en/factbook/11-04.html. Archived from the original on 18 March 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 28.2 https://web.archive.org/web/20240123003258/https://www.nipponsteel.com/en/factbook/2023/11-04.html. Archived from the original on 23 January 2024. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  29. ↑ (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20240125043017/https://www.nipponsteel.com/en/ir/library/pdf/nsc_en_ir_2022_a3.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 January 2024. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  30. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20210529104833/https://www.nipponsteel.com/en/news/old_smi/2008/news2008-10-01.html. Archived from the original on 29 May 2021. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  31. ↑ https://www.nipponsteel.com/en/news/old_smi/2009/news2009-07-16.html. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  32. ↑ 32.0 32.1 https://www.nipponsteel.com/en/factbook/2022/10-04.html. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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