Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. has asked rival makers to help produce steel products as its plant in western Japan remains offline after a fire there last week, a company official said Friday. In addition to drawing on its existing stock and alternative production ...
The U.S. Department of Commerce has preliminarily decided to impose antidumping duties on imports of cold-rolled steel products from Japan and six other countries after determining that several companies sold the products at less than fair value, the department said in a statement. The products ...
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. and JFE Holdings Inc. cut their profit forecasts for the year as the nation's top two producers respond to a global supply glut spurred by unprecedented Chinese exports. Japan's steel companies are battling against falling prices on export markets, ...
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. said Wednesday it has reached a settlement with major South Korean steel maker Posco and its subsidiaries over damages suits related to the Japanese company's proprietary steel sheet production technology. Nippon Steel said it had received ¥30 billion ($250 ...
More than a dozen steelworkers were injured when a coke oven blew up at a Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. factory in Tokai, Aichi Prefecture, police said Wednesday. An emergency call at about 12:30 p.m. said that "a coke oven exploded" at the Nagoya ...
Toyota Motor Corp. expects to delay delivery of about 23,000 vehicles by up to a month while it cleans up soot from a Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. plant in Aichi Prefecture. The automaker said Wednesday that around 20,000 vehicles bound for export and ...
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. will name Vice President Kosei Shindo as president on April 1, replacing Hiroshi Tomono, the company said on Thursday. After performing favorably since the merger of Nippon Steel Corp. and Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd. (NSSMC) in October 2012, the ...
One person died and two others sustained injuries and were taken to a hospital after an explosion Monday at Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp.'s Yahata plant in Fukuoka Prefecture, according to the local fire department. The man who was killed was in his 30s ...
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal will comply if South Korea's top court upholds a compensation ruling for four Koreans forced to work for its predecessors during the war.
