Kobe Steel Company Description
Kobe Steel, Ltd. engages in the materials, machinery, and electric power businesses worldwide.
The company offers steel sheet products, including high-tensile strength, hot and 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; 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, including 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 exchangers 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 provides 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.
| Country | Japan |
| Founded | 1905 |
| Industry | Steel |
| Sector | Materials |
| Employees | 39,294 |
| CEO | Yoshihiko Katsukawa |
Contact Details
Address: 2-4, Wakinohama-Kaigandori 2-chome Kobe, 651-8585 Japan | |
| Phone | 81 78 261 5111 |
| Website | kobelco.co.jp |
Stock Details
| Ticker Symbol | KBSTF |
| Exchange | OTCMKTS |
| Stock Type | Common Stock |
| Fiscal Year | April - March |
| Reporting Currency | JPY |
| ISIN Number | JP3289800009 |
| SIC Code | 3310 |
Key Executives
| Name | Position |
|---|---|
| Yoshihiko Katsukawa | President, Chief Executive Officer and Representative Director |
| Nagayoshi Ya | Executive Vice President and Director |
| Yasushi Okano | Head of Rugby Cen and Exe Off of Legal Dep, Human Resources Dep, Civil Eng & Cons Tech. Dep and Mach & Mat Proc Dep |
| Makoto Mizuguchi | Executive Vice President and Head of the Steel & Aluminum Business |
| Jiro Kitagawa | Executive Officer and Head of the Electric Power Business |
| Kazuaki Kawahara | Senior Managing Executive Officer |
| Yasushi Okubo | Senior Managing Executive Officer |
| Shoji Miyazaki | Executive Vice President and Head of Steel and Aluminum Business |
| Hajime Nagara | Executive Vice President and Representative Director |
| Shoji Nakamura | Executive Officer and GM of Kakogawa Works, Steel and Aluminum Business Division |