April 11th, 2011
Nippon Steel & Sumikin Metal Products Co., Ltd.
Continuous casting powder manufacturing equipment expansion for Subsidiary in China
Nippon Steel & Sumikin Metal Products Co., Ltd. (Representative Director and President:Kiichiro Masuda) announces the expansion done for continuous casting powder
manufacturing equipment of Shanghai Nikken Dazhong Refining Steel Material Co., Ltd.
(Shanghai Nikken, Location: Baoshan district, Shanghai), its subsidiary in China.
Continuous casting powder is used inside the mold of continuous casting machine, whichis the process to solidify steel at steel mill, and is also called the mold additive.
It is a very multifunctional powder/granulation product, providing many positive effects
such as the following:-Operation stabilization by flowing in between mold and slab, working as lubricant.
-Slab surface quality improvement by optimizing slab heat removal.
-Slab interior quality improvement by absorbing inclusions etc.
-Antioxidation and heat insulation of molten steel inside the mold.
Spray dryer made granulation type product is becoming the major to improve working
condition.
Recently, crude steel market in China has extremely expanded to annual production of
600 million tons. Demand for high-class steel, such as stainless steel, heavy metal sheet
and automotive steel sheet etc. (materials with strict requirements for slab surface
and interior quality of slab) has also grown, leading to demand for innovation incontinuous casting powder, which directly affects the steel quality. To capture and meetsuch demand, we have doubled the production capacity by equipment expansion in Shanghai
Nikken.
Shanghai Nikken was established in 1997 and is manufacturing and selling 8,000t of
continuous casting powder annually for domestic use and export towards Japan. This time
we have installed one more spray dryer adding it up to total of 2, doubling the annualproductivity to 20 thousand tons. This is to intensify Shanghai Nikken as the base toprovide powders for Chinese market, especially for high-class products.
We are projecting to build up a structure to cope with not only Chinese market but
the whole Global market including Asia, by cooperating with existing continuous casting
powder manufacturing base in Japan.
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(Company Profile)
Company name： Shanghai Nikken Dazhong Refining Steel Material Co., Ltd.

Location：Luo Ning Rd 2075, Baoshan District, Shanghai

Business description： Manufacturing and selling of continuous casting powder etc.
Establishment ： May, 1997
Capital：

6.9 million USD

Shareholders(Investment ratio)： Nippon Steel & Sumikin Metal Products Co., Ltd.
76.1%、Nippon Steel Trading Co., Ltd. 16.27%、2 other companies
Chairman： Hidehisa Taniguchi

General Manager： Takashi Yoshimitsu
Employee： 74 personnel(Pleas contact the following for any inquiry)
Nippon Steel & Sumikin Metal Products Co., LtdNittex Division+81-3-3630-2683

【Complete view of Shanghai Nikken Dazhong Refining Steel Material Co., Ltd.
（2 Spray dryers）】【Shanghai Nikken Completion Marking Ceremony：
Congratulatory speech by Mr. Kotani(Senior Managing Director of NSMP)】

Shanghai Nikken Dazhong Refining Steel Material Co., Ltd.
Add: Luo Ning Rd 2075, Baoshan District, Shanghai
Tel: (021)56873046
Fax: (021)36133845

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