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 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 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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