Kobe Steel, Ltd. (5406.T) JPX

1,739.00

-2(-0.11%)

Updated at October 17 03:30PM

Currency In JPY

Kobe Steel, Ltd.

Address

2-4, Wakinohama-Kaigandori 2-chome

Kobe, 651-8585

Japan

Phone

81 78 261 5111

Sector

Basic Materials

Industry

Steel

Employees

38050

First IPO Date

January 04, 2000

Key Executives

NameTitlePayYear Born
Mr. Yoshihiko KatsukawaPresident, Chief Executive Officer & Representative Director01962
Mr. Jiro KitagawaExecutive Officer & Head of the Electric Power Business01961
Hiroki IwamotoManaging Executive Officer & GM of the Compressor Division - Machinery Business0N/A
Mr. Makoto MizuguchiExecutive Vice President & Head of the Steel & Aluminum Business01959
Mr. Yasushi OkuboSenior Managing Executive Officer0N/A
Shoji MiyazakiEVice President & Head of Steel and Aluminum Business0N/A
Mr. Hajime NagaraExecutive Vice President & Representative Director01961
Shoji NakamuraExecutive Officer & GM of Kakogawa Works, Steel and Aluminum Business Division0N/A
Yasushi OkanoHead of Rugby Cen & Exe Off of Legal Dep, HR Dep, Civil Eng & Cons Tech. Dep and Mach & Mat Proc Dep0N/A
Kazuaki KawaharaSenior Managing Executive Officer0N/A

Description

Kobe Steel, Ltd. engages in the materials, machinery, and electric power businesses in Japan, North and South Americas, Europe, the Middle East, rest of Asia, and Oceania. The company offers steel sheet products, including high-tensile strength, hot rolled, cold rolled, electro-galvanized, and hot-dipped galvanized steel sheets; steel wire rods and bars; and aluminum and steel plates. It also provides steel casting and forging products, such as crankshafts, marine parts, chemical processing equipment, and rolls, as well as materials for plastic molding; and titanium products, copper sheets and strips, and steel powders. In addition, the company offers robots and electric power sources, and welding materials; and machinery products, such as standard compressors, tire and rubber machinery products, rotating machinery products, plastic processing machinery products, advanced technology equipment, rolling mill products, and ultra high pressure equipment, as well as LNG vaporizers, pressure vessels, brazed aluminum heat exchangers, and micro channel heat exchanger and reactors. Further, it provides signaling, communication, power supply, automatic fare collection, and platform screen door systems; hydraulic and mini hydraulic excavators, mini wheel loaders, and road machinery; construction, metal, forestry, and industrial waste recycling machinery; and crawler and wheel cranes. Additionally, the company generates and supplies electric power; offers material and structural analysis, testing, physical analysis, and other services; manufactures and sells target materials and test equipment; sells and rents detached homes; and provides brokerage, renovation, insurance, and other services, as well as operational management services of public facilities. It also offers services in the field of iron units; and water treatment, waste incineration, PCB detoxification, and soil remediation services. The company was founded in 1905 and is headquartered in Kobe, Japan.