JFE Steel
JFE Steel (
Recent Mergers and Spinoffs
JFE Steel was created in 2002 as
In the same year of 2002, NKK's shipbuilding business was spun off as a separate entity, which in the same year merged with
After these mergers and spinoffs, JFE Steel is the second largest steel company in Japan, after
History of Kawasaki Steel
Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) started its business as a shipbuilding company in 1878 in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, and started to make steel for its own purpose in 1906. In the post-World War II recovery of 1950, KHI span off its steel-making business as Kawasaki Steel.
Kawasaki Steel opened Chiba Iron Works in 1951, followed by Mizushima Iron Works, now called Kurashiki Iron Works, in 1961. In 1989, it entered into a limited partnership with
It made cooperative agreement with Korea's Dongkuk Steel in 1991 and another agreement with Hyundai Hysco in 2000.
History of NKK
Nihon Kokan Co., Ltd. (NKK), was established in 1912 with a steel pipes plant in
NKK opened Fukuyama Iron Works in
NKK acquired 50% of National Steel in 1990, but sold this American company to U.S. Steel in 2002.
Major plant locations
The steel production sites of JFE Steel, a JFE Holding subsidiary, are organized into two regions, East Japan and West Japan.
East production sites
There are two major steel works in the East Japan Production Sites (JFEスチール東日本製鉄所):
Keihin Steel Works
After the
Chiba Steel Works
The first, second, fifth and sixth furnaces were completed, respectively, in 1953, 1958, 1965, and 1977. The first four furnaces are already demolished.West production sites
There are two major steel works in the West Japan production sites (JFEスチール西日本製鉄所):
Kurashiki Steel Works
Kurashiki Steel Works (
Fukuyama Steel Works
Fukuyama Steel Works(福山製鉄所) in Fukuyama, Hiroshima, on the Inland Sea, opened in 1965 by Nippon Kokan. As of May 2011, three blast furnaces out of the existing four (Nos. 3, 4 and 5) are in operation.
See also
References
External links
- Official site
- History of JFE Steel since 1943.