Nippon Steel Pipe India Private Limited (“NPI”) whose primary shareholders are Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (Chairman & CEO: Shoji Muneoka, “NSSMC”) and its consolidated subsidiary Siam Nippon Steel Pipe Co., Ltd. (“SNP”), started, in January 2012, the cutting, heat treating, and other processing of mother pipe supplied from SNP, and completed the installment of pipe-making and cold-drawing equipment by the end of 2012 on schedule. It finished structuring the integrated manufacture setup from pipe-making to cold-drawing, heat-treating and other processes in January 2013.
Since then, approvals have been successfully obtained from customers for the relevant products, and commercial production commenced in June of this year.
The NSSMC group, while continuing to respond steadily to the needs of Japanese and other automakers (both vehicles and parts), will strengthen global sales capabilities and capture the burgeoning demand in the newly developing markets where rapid growth is expected, to pursue greater profit.
| 1. Company name: | Nippon Steel Pipe India Private Limited (“NPI”) |
| 2. Location: | Neemrana Industrial Park in the state of Rajasthan, India (about 100km south of DEHLI AIRPORT) |
| 3. Representative: | Masayuki Suzuki (dispatched from NSSMC) |
| 4. Capital: | INR1.23 billion |
| 5. Shareholders: | SNP 57.8%, NSSMC 40.9%, Toshida Kogyo 1.3% |
| 6. Business: | Manufacture and sale of machine structural steel pipes and tubes for automotive applications (two-wheeled and four-wheeled vehicles) |
| 7. Main equipment: | Electric-resistance welded pipe/tube manufacturing equipment, cold-drawing equipment, cutting equipment, heat-treating equipment |
| 8. Production capacity: | Approx. 2,000 tons/month |
| 9. Production: | Cutting & heat-treating since January 2012 Integrated manufacturing setup from pipe-making structured since January 2013 |
| 10. Employees: | Approx. 300 (on a full-operation basis) |
