Nippon Steel

Nippon Steel Corporation
Native name
日本製鉄株式会社
Nippon Seitetsu kabushiki gaisha
Formerly
  • Nippon Steel Corporation (1970–2012)
  • Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (2012–2019)
Company typePublic
TYO: 5401
NAG: 5401
FSE: 5401
SSE: 5401
TOPIX Large70 component
IndustrySteel
Predecessors
FoundedMarch 31, 1970 (1970-03-31) (as New Japan Steel)
October 1, 2012 (2012-10-01) (as Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal)
Founders
HeadquartersMarunouchi, ,
Japan
Key people
Eiji Hashimoto (chairman & CEO)
Revenue ¥6.177 trillion (2019)
¥114.20 billion (2017)
¥251.69 billion (2019)
Total assets ¥8.049 trillion (2019)
Total equity ¥3.230 trillion (2019)
Number of employees
106,068 (2023)
SubsidiariesNippon Steel Engineering
Nippon Steel Materials
Nippon Steel Chemical
NS Solutions
Osaka Steel
U.S. Steel
Websitewww.nipponsteel.com

Nippon Steel Corporation (日本製鉄株式会社, Nippon Seitetsu kabushiki gaisha; also known as Nippon Steel and previously known as Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal until 2019) is a Japanese steel manufacturing company, headquartered in Marunouchi, Chiyoda, Tokyo. The company has four business segments, which are steelmaking, engineering, chemicals, and systems solutions. It is the largest producer of crude steel in Japan and the fourth largest in the world.

The company is on the Forbes Global 2000 list, ranked 1971 in 2023. The company is the third incarnation of the Nippon Steel name, each time with a slightly different spelling or pronunciation. The original company, known as Japan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd., was split into two separate companies in 1950. These two companies later merged in 1970 to form Nippon Steel Corporation and this name lasted until 2012, when it merged with Sumitomo Metal Industries and rebranded to its post-merger name. The company’s English name reverted to its 1970 name in 2019, while its Japanese name returned to the original 1934 name.