Nippon Sanyo Special Steel is a scrap-based steel plant: an electric arc furnace melts recycled steel scrap into new crude steel. The liquid steel is solidified into semi-finished shapes by continuous casting. The plant has a crude steel capacity of about 1.6 million tonnes per year. Its main products are billet, tube, rolled, bar.
Process Route
Timeline
Operating since 1935
Emissions
2025
0.096 Mt CO₂e
0.08 t CO₂e per tonne of steel
Typical EAF route: 0.5–0.7 t/t
Modelled estimate (Climate TRACE), not reported data. Methodology
Capacity (ttpa)
Crude Steel
1,596
EAF
1,596
Steel Units
Inputs & Energy
Power 40 million kWh purchased hydroelectric power; 600,000 kWh solar power generated
Steel Products
billet, tube, rolled, bar
Ownership
Owner Sanyo Special Steel Co Ltd
Parent Nippon Steel Corp [53.1%]; Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc [3.2%]; Nippon Life Insurance Co [2.3%]; Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc [2.0%]; Mizuho Financial Group Inc [1.6%]; Resona Bank Ltd [1.0%]; Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co [0.7%]; Norinchukin Bank [0.7%]; small shareholder(s) [0.6%]; The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co Ltd [0.5%]; Asahi Mutual Life Insurance Co [0.3%]
Workforce 1,623 employees
Country Context
Japan crude steel production (USGS). Plant line shows nominal capacity, not output.
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Location
Himeji
Asia Pacific
Japan
34.7881°, 134.6720°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 1,596 ttpa
- Commissioned
- 1935
- Products
- Semi-finished, finished rolled
- Certifications
- 1 recorded