For the construction equipment subsidiary, see Kobelco Construction Machinery America.
Japanese steelmaker
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Kobe Steel, Ltd.
Tokyo Head Office
Trade name
Kobelco
Native name
株式会社神戸製鋼所
Romanized name
Kabushiki gaisha Kōbe Seikō-sho
Company type
Public (Kabushiki gaisha)
Traded as
TYO: 5406 NAG: 5406 Nikkei 225 component (TYO)
Industry
Steel
Founded
Kobe, Japan (September 1, 1905; 118 years ago (1905-09-01))
Founder
Suzuki Shoten Seiichiro Kobayashi
Headquarters
2-4, Wakinohama-Kaigandori 2-chome, Chūō-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo, 651-8585, Japan
Key people
Mitsugu Yamaguchi, (CEO and President)
Products
Steel & Aluminum
Advanced Materials
Welding
Machinery
Engineering
Construction Machinery
Electric Power
Revenue
¥ 106.8 billion (FY 2022)
Net income
¥ 72.5 billion (FY 2022)
Total assets
¥ 250.9 billion (as of March 31, 2022)
Number of employees
38,106 (consolidated) (as of March 31, 2022)
Website
Official website
Footnotes / references [1][2]
Kobe Steel, Ltd. (株式会社神戸製鋼所, Kabushiki gaisha Kōbe Seikō-sho), is a major Japanese steel manufacturer headquartered in Chūō-ku, Kobe. KOBELCO is the unified brand name of the Kobe Steel Group.
Kobe Steel has the lowest proportion of steel operations of any major steelmaker in Japan and is characterised as a conglomerate comprising the three pillars of the Materials Division, the Machinery Division and the Power Division.[3]
The materials division has a high market share in wire rods and aluminium materials for transport equipment, while the machinery division has a high market share in screw compressors. In addition, the power sector has one of the largest wholesale power supply operations in the country.[4]
Kobe Steel is a member of the Mizuho keiretsu. It was formerly part of the DKB Group, Sanwa Group keiretsu, which later were subsumed into Mizuho.
The company is listed on the Tokyo & Nagoya Stock Exchange, where its stock is a component of the Nikkei 225.[5]
As of March 31, 2022, Kobe Steel has 201 subsidiaries and 50 affiliated companies across Japan, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the US. Its main production facilities are Kakogawa Steel Works and Takasago Works.[6]
Kobe Steel is also famous as the owner of the rugby team Kobelco Steelers.[7]
^"Corporate Profile". Kobelco.co.jp. Retrieved April 13, 2014.
^"Financial statements for the first quarter of 2022" (PDF). Kobelco.co.jp. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
^"統合報告書". 株式会社神戸製鋼所. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
^"統合報告書". 株式会社神戸製鋼所. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
^"Components:Nikkei Stock Average". Nikkei Inc. Retrieved April 13, 2014.
^"統合報告書". 株式会社神戸製鋼所. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
^"How Dan Carter's Kobelco Steelers are setting the new standard in Japanese rugby". www.rugbypass.com. 2020-01-16. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
KobeSteel, Ltd. (株式会社神戸製鋼所, Kabushiki gaisha Kōbe Seikō-sho), is a major Japanese steel manufacturer headquartered in Chūō-ku, Kobe. KOBELCO is the unified...
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The Kobelco KobeSteelers are a Japanese rugby union team owned by KobeSteel, and based in Kobe. They were the first ever Top League champions when the...
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is a subsidiary of KobeSteel. A former global sales alliance between KobeSteel and CNH Global ended in December 2012. "KobeSteel, Kobelco Construction...
ground of J1 League club Vissel Kobe and the rugby union Japan Rugby League One team Kobelco KobeSteelers. In 1970, Kobe Central Football Stadium (神戸市立中央競技場)...
17 October 2018. "KobeSteel to supply titanium forgings for main landing gears of Airbus A350 XWB planes" (Press release). KobeSteel, Ltd. 27 March 2014...
France Japan Steel Works, Japan Jindal Steel and Power, India Jinxi Iron and Steel, China Jiuquan Steel [zh], China Julien Inc., Canada KobeSteel, Japan Krakatau...
at Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium, 28–24. The Japan team included such KobeSteel stalwarts as centre Seiji Hirao (captain), and locks Atsushi Oyagi and...
President & Chief Executive Officer of CNH Global N.V. 2001: CNH Global, KobeSteel Ltd., and Kobelco Construction Machinery reach an agreement to form a...
institutes: Bayer Kobe Research Center Eli Lilly and Company Boehringer Ingelheim Procter & Gamble: the East-Asian and Japanese headquarters. KobeSteel Mitsubishi...
1980s. Mitsubishi, along with other manufacturers, was affected by the KobeSteel scandal in 2017, which involved falsified data for products supplied to...
integrated steel plant in a GCC countries. It was a joint venture between the Government of Qatar [70%] and two Japanese companies, KobeSteel [20%] and...
professional rugby union coach and former player. He will take over the KobeSteelers as head coach for the 2023-24 season. He previously was the head coach...
Kakogawa Steel Works (Japanese: 加古川製鉄所) is KobeSteel, Ltd.'s ironworks in Kakogawa, Hyogo, Japan, established in 1969. It is responsible for about 80...
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government under Olusegun Obasanjo concessioned the project to Japanese KobeSteel in an attempt at revitalization, however without much success. In 2004...
(Direct Reduction of Iron) technology of the MIDREX process owned by KobeSteel of Japan. Pakistan refused to supply the gas to the company and Saudi...
maint: location missing publisher (link) "History of the KobeSteel Group (timeline)". KobeSteel Ltd. Retrieved July 30, 2015. History of Japanese Photography...
production of 720,000 tonnes per year Katsina rolling mills was constructed by KobeSteel of Japan. One of the Nigerian project coordinators was Mahmud Kanti Bello...
33 KobeSteel Akira Yoshida Centre (1971-08-13)13 August 1971 (aged 23) 1 KobeSteel Yukio Motoki Centre (1971-08-27)27 August 1971 (aged 23) 12 Kobe Steel...
and play rugby for KobeSteel. In 1996, Bickle was capped six times by the Japan national team. He continued competing with KobeSteel until 1999. Bickle...
the city of Kobe. Approximately 6,434 people died as a result of this earthquake; about 4,600 of them were from Kobe. Among major cities, Kobe, with its...
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