Kimitsu Steel Works
Location of Kimitsu Steel Works
Kimitsu Steel Works (
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation after its 2012 merger with Sumitomo Metal Industries
.
History
Prior to the construction of its new
Kimitsu, Chiba
on the other side of the bay was selected as the new site.
Kimitsu Steel Works started in 1965 with a
cold rolling mill, using the slabs shipped from other ironworks, such as Kamaishi Steel Works in Kamaishi, Iwate and Tokai Steel Works near Nagoya
.
In 1968, 1969, 1971 and 1988, the first, second, third and fourth
hot rolling mill and iron bar/iron pipes
mills. It became an "integrated" steel works, producing every kind of steel products.
In 1970, with the merger of Nippon Steel and
Corporation
.
From the latter half of the 1970s, Kimitsu started to receive visits by the
Baoshan Steel Works in Shanghai. In 1985, with Kimitsu engineers' further assistance, Baoshan started operations with the first blast furnace began production.[1]
In 1995, it had the honor of a visit by
Prince Naruhito, their son, also toured the works twenty years later, in 2015, visiting the No. 4 blast furnace, hot rolling mill and technology center.[2]
In 2007, a coking facility began operation at Kimitsu.
In 2012, with the merger of Nippon Steel and
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
.
Extensive use of the computer
One of the features of this relatively new ironworks when it was planned was its extensive use of the
Nippon Kokan's Ōgishima extension of Keihin Works (Kawasaki, Kanagawa
).
Data
- Space: 1,173 hectares
- Employees: about 2,600
- Annual pig iron production: 10,026,000 tons (2006), which was the second highest among the Japanese ironworks.
Transportation
- From Kimitsu Station on East Japan Railway Company's Uchibō Line, Ten minutes by taxi
- From Tokyo Station's Yaesu Exit, via Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line, Keisei Bus or Nittō Bus
- From Haneda International Airport, sixty minutes by Keihin Express Limousine
See also
- Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
- Japan's Steel Works
References
- ^ 製鉄所／君津製鉄所／製鉄所案内／歴史・沿革 [Steel Works/Kimitsu Steel Works/Guide/History] (in Japanese)
- ^ 「大変迫力のあるプロセスですね」皇太子さまが君津製鉄所ご視察 ["It's a powerful process", comments the Crown Prince Naruhito as he tours Kimitsu Steel Works] (Sankei Shimbun, March 6, 2015, in Japanese)
- ^ 新日鐵君津製鐵所における業界初の製造オンラインシステム（伊藤正雄、2008年、経営情報学会情報システム発展史研究部会）[The Steel Industry's First Online System at Kimitsu Works (by Masao Ito, 2008, at Japan Society for Management Information)]
- .
- ^ All On Line System in Nippon Steel Corporation Kimitsu Works (Annual Conference of Japan Society for Management Information, Spring 2008)
- ^ See IBM's conceptual documentation in Red Book: "Operations Control System for the Steel Industry" in three volumes（IBM, 1968）