Nippon Steel Pipe India Begins Commercial Production
07/04/2013 - Nippon Steel Pipe India Private Limited has obtained approvals from customers for its automotive steel pipe and tube; commercial production began in June 2013.
Nippon Steel Pipe India, whose primary shareholders are Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. and its consolidated subsidiary Siam Nippon Steel Pipe Co., Ltd. (SNP), began, 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 at the end of 2012. 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 2013.
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 plans to capture the burgeoning demand in the newly developing markets where rapid growth is expected.
