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On April 1,
1999, Hokkai Steel Works Co., Ltd. ( HSW or Shin-Hokkai Kogyo K.K.) newly
started its operation as an affiliated company of Nippon Steel Corporation
(NSC), which is one of the leading companies in the iron and steel industries
in Japan as well as in the world.
We are very proud of our business that contributes to energy- and
resources-conservation through steel-recycling. Scrap for our electric
furnace is collected only in Hokkaido. In other words, we are conjuring
products out of waste in the district. We hope that our business assists the
society in constructing a further ecological mechanism in the 21st century.
In Hokkaido, Hokkai Kogyo K.K.(HKK), antecedents of HSW, had been ranked
not only as a pioneer for new production technologies but also as a front-runner
in quality assurance forapproximately 70 years since its foundation in
1936. (cf. "CHRONOLOGY")
From the reorganization, we are able to utilize new management resources of
NSC Group in addition to the technical heritage of HKK.
We made an excellent take-off for the new century in cooperation with our
labor union and our product-distributors.
We produce more than 200 thousand tons of steel products yearly with a 50-ton
electric furnace.
We take a lot of pride in our efficient production result at over 2,200
ton/man-year as well as in our high quality rebars that have already
established its status in the market.
In May 2001, with the above-mentioned competitiveness, HSW started to export
its rebars and steel billets in the global market. Now we export more then
60,000 tons of rebars and steel billets annually.
In 2004, we celebrated the 5th anniversary of the re-organization. Thanks
to great support by our distributors in the district and customers overseas,
our management results for the first 5 years were much more successful
than we had expected.
To commemorate the success as well as to upgrade our performance, we renewed
our corporate LOGO, which represents our corporate image of recycling.
At the same time on October 1,2004 we changed our English name to Shin-Hokkai
Steel Co.,Ltd.
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