Krosaki Harima / Receives First Order for Robot Developed In-house / Automatically Replaces Fire Bricks of Steelmaking Facilities
Major refractory manufacturer Krosaki Harima announced that they have received an order from a domestic electric arc furnace steelmaker to deliver a robot which...
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Krosaki Harima / Receives First Order for Robot Developed In-house / Automatically Replaces Fire Bricks of Steelmaking Facilities
JFE Steel / To Conduct Direct Sales of System for Cold Strip Mills / In Partnership with Hitachi, System Automatically Controls Shapes of Sheets with AI
Predictions Regarding Demand for Copper and Copper Alloy Products in Fiscal Year 2024 / To Increase by 6% to 680,000 Tons / Expected Recovery in Demand for Products for Semiconductors During Latter Half of Fiscal Year
JFE Shoji / To Venture into Europe with Electrical Steel Sheet Processing Business / To Invest 8 Billion Yen in Serbia / To Capture Motor Core Demand
Interview
Interview with New President / JFE Steel, President Mr. Masayuki Hirose / To Expand Overseas Business “In India and North America” / To Communicate Long-term Vision “In an Easy to Understand Way”
India’s Hindalco, Business in Japan / Interview with CSMO Mr. Suman Bal (Specialty Alumina & Chemicals Business) / Targeting Battery and Semiconductor Markets / To Expand Sales of High Performance Alumina and Others
Interview with New President / Nippon Steel, President and COO Mr. Tadashi Imai / “To Achieve Growth in Profits by Expanding Overseas Business” / “It Is Our Mission to Pursue Decarbonization”
Interview with Thailand recycling company, Angprapha steel Deputy managing director Chayaporn Angpraphapornchai / Stable supply by improving collection capacity
Commentary
U.S. Steel, To Hold Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting on April 12th / To Vote on ‘Nippon Steel’s Acquisition Offer’
Kobe Steel, Considering Collaboration with Baowu Aluminium / To Strengthen Sales of Automotive Aluminum Sheets in China / To Procure Mother Material and Utilize Scrap in China
Focus / CO2 Emissions of Japanese Steel Industry in Fiscal Year 2022, Reduced by 23% from Fiscal Year 2013 / Making Progress Toward Fiscal Year 2030 Goal
CO2 Reduction Effects of Advanced Functional Steel Products / In Fiscal Year 2022, 35 Million Tons / Highest Number in Years Counting from 2003, Equivalent to 80% of Industry Target for 2030
Reportage
Angprapha steel Headquarters Plant Report
Plant Report / Making Investments to Renew Facilities / Nippon Yakin Kogyo, Kawasaki Plant / Part 2 of 2 / New Cold Strip Mill, To Begin Full-scale Operations in November 2024
Plant Report / Making Investments to Renew Facilities / Nippon Yakin Kogyo, Kawasaki Plant / Part 1 of 2 / Highly Efficient Electric Arc Furnace Realizing Full Potential
Plant Report / Oji Steel, Gunma Plant / Efficiently Producing High Quality Flat Bars / Implementing Cutting-edge Technologies to Strongly Pursue Improvements in Labor Effectiveness
Domestic market price
| Tokyo | Osaka | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Bar-reinforcing | SD295=direct shipment 16～25mm | →119,000 | →105,000 |
| Pipe | BF's products 50A(2inch) | →232,000 | →230,000 |
| CRC | 1.0×(3×6) | →136,000 | →133,000 |
| Plate | 16～25×(5×10) out of the standards | →142,000 | →142,000 |