Nippon Sanyo Special Steel

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Nippon Sanyo Special Steel (山陽特殊製鋼 (Japanese), 山陽特殊製鋼株式会社 (Chinese)) is an electric arc furnace (EAF) steel plant operating in Himeji, Kansai, Japan.

Location

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  • Location: 3007, Nakashima, Shikama-ku, Himeji, Hyogo 672-8677, Japan
  • Coordinates (WGS 84): 34.788074, 134.672046 (exact)

Background

Sanyo Steel Works was founded in 1933. In 2006, it became an affiliate of Nippon Steel Corporation and a subsidiary of Nippon Steel in 2019.[1]

Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Plant status Start date Workforce size
Operating[2] 1933[3] 1611[4]

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Owner Owner company PermID Owner company GEM ID
Sanyo Special Steel Co Ltd[3] 4295877920 E100000130712

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[5] billet; rolled products; tube; bars[5] automotive; building and infrastructure; energy; steel packaging; tools and machinery; transport[6] yes[7] EAF[3] 2 EAF (1x150-tonne, 1x60-tonne EAF#2 began in 1973)[8][5][3][9]

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* Electric arc furnace steelmaking capacity Nominal crude steel capacity (total)
operating 1596 TTPA[9][9] 1596 TTPA[9][9]

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References

  1. "History | Company Information | Sanyo Special Steel Co., Ltd". www.sanyo-steel.co.jp. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20220121172210/http://www.sanyo-steel.co.jp/english/. Archived from the original on 21 January 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 https://web.archive.org/web/20220111152113/http://www.sanyo-steel.co.jp/english/company/history.php. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20240125055109/https://www.sanyo-steel.co.jp/english/company/about.php. Archived from the original on 25 January 2024. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 https://web.archive.org/web/20200806103852/http://www.sanyo-steel.co.jp/english/technology/process.php. Archived from the original on 06 August 2020. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |archive-date= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. https://web.archive.org/web/20200806102709/http://www.sanyo-steel.co.jp/english/technology/high-reliability-steel.php. Archived from the original on 06 August 2020. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |archive-date= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. https://web.archive.org/web/20200806094325/http://www.sanyo-steel.co.jp/english/company/about.php. Archived from the original on 06 August 2020. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |archive-date= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20220207220958/http://www.sanyo-steel.co.jp/english/company/images/pdf/company_pro_2020_e.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 07 February 2022. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |archive-date= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20220320135539/https://www.sanyo-steel.co.jp/english/technology/img/process01e_2012.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 March 2022. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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