March 22, 2024
Nippon Steel Corporation

Designing Titanium TranTixxii wins the European “iF DESIGN AWARD 2024”—The world’s first non-ferrous metal material to receive the award—
Nippon Steel Corporation (hereinafter "Nippon Steel") has been awarded the international award “iF DESIGNAWARD 2024” (hereinafter iF DESIGN AWARD) for Designing Titanium TranTixxii™. The developed product,
which combines titanium’s characteristics with beauty and exceptional environmental performance using unique
technologies, received high evaluation and became the world’s first non-ferrous metal material to receive theaward.
The iF DESIGN AWARD is an internationally prestigious product design award sponsored by iF International
Forum Design in Germany. It is called one of the world’s three major design awards, along with the IDEAAward of America and the Red Dot Design Award of Germany. The Designing Titanium TranTixxii is now therecipient of an international design award following the Japanese Good Design Award and Red Dot Design Award.

Designing Titanium TranTixxii is a material that combines titanium’s characteristics of having an extended
service life, being lightweight with high strength, and exceptional environmental performance with color and tonal
beauty by controlling the material surface through our unique technologies. “Beauty transcending ages” thatremains unchanged for many years is realized by the world’s only technology that minimizes aging changes. Thistime, in addition to its design, TranTixxii was also praised for being an environmentally advanced material that
includes the world’s first pure titanium with high scrap content, TranTixxii-ECO, which uses unique technology toreduce environmental impact. TranTixxii is widely used for design applications, from the interior and exterior oflarge-scale buildings in Japan and overseas, to automobile, watches, tablewares, and works of art.
In addition to Designing Titanium TranTixxii, Nippon Steel group has various design products that willcontribute to improvement in the design of products and buildings, such as designing steel sheets and designingstainless steel, which are referred to as “Designing Metals” and proposed to architects and designers.
By expanding the sales of “Designing Metals” such as Designing Titanium TranTixxii, we will enhance thedesign of buildings and products around the world and promote sustainability, contributing to city planning andenriching the living environment.

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<Award details>(1) Award target:

TranTixxii (Designing Titanium)(2) Award description:iF DESIGN AWARD 2024

(3) Certification authority: iF International Forum Design (Industry Forum Design Hannover)(4) Brand design:

Osamu Ieda

(5) Other collaborators:

OKAYA & CO., LTD., and OKAYA EUROPE GMBH

<Reference (award history of TranTixxii brand)>Award

Host country

Year

1

Good Design AwardJapan

2021

2Reddot Design Award

Germany

2022

3

iF Design AwardGermany

2024

Design Award Logo

▼Designing metals of Nippon Steel: https://www.nipponsteel.com/en/product/use/design/▼Designing titanium TranTixxii of Nippon Steel: https://www.nipponsteel.com/en/product/trantixxii/

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