查看更多>>摘要：Nippon Steel and USINOR have concluded a Global Strategic Alliance Agreement to establish mutual cooperation on a global scale. The objective is to respond to a trend toward globalization among steel users such as automobile manufacturers, the packaging industry and stainless steel customers and to achieve greater customer satisfaction, more efficient operations and utilization of respective corporate resources in the steel and advanced R&D sectors.Among major cooperative tasks are:Cooperation on projects in automotive steel sheets, such as licensing arrangements concerning technologies already possessed and joint R&D endeavors, and study of possible joint ventures and OEM productionDevelopment of similar cooperation with respect to steel for packaging and stainless steelCooperation on purchasing and e-businessSpecial joint attention to environmental issues related to the steel industry.
查看更多>>摘要：The Pant & Machinery Division of Nippon Steel's Engineering Divisions Group has received and order to supply a preheating furnace to China Steel Corporation (CSC) in Taiwan. CSC is the only integrated steelmaker in Taiwan.The preheating furnace is of the walking beam-type for blooms with preheating capacity of 370 tons/hr. It will be installed to lessen the reheating burden on an existing bloom reheating furnace at CSC's billet plant and is slated to start up in July 2002.
查看更多>>摘要：Presentation ceremonies for the eleventh annual Nippon Steel Music Awards were held on February 27th. Guitarist Dai Kimura received the Promising New Artist Prize and acoustic designer Minoru Nagata received the Special Prize.The Nippon Steel Music Awards were established in 1990 to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of Nippon Steel Corporation's founding and the thirty-fifth anniversary of Nippon Steel Concerts (Fuji Steel Concerts before 1970), a series of classical music concerts for radio broadcasting sponsored by the company. The Promising New Artist Prize is presented to gifted artists with promising futures while the Special Prize goes to deserving individuals who have greatly contributed to the development of classical music culture but who are not necessarily musicians.
查看更多>>摘要：The steel industry requires huge amounts of water for its manufacturing processes. As a steelmaking company, Nippon Steel has actively promoted water recirculation, R&D aimed at efficient water usage, and the practical implementation of research achievements. Now this accumulated know-how regarding water treatment has reached the level where it can be used not only in steelmaking but to meet the broader needs of society as well.
查看更多>>摘要：Modern, large-scale, mechanized brick production in Japan began in 1889 in Fukaya City, Saitama Prefecture. The bricks produced there were used in structures such as the Marunouchi-side building of Tokyo Station, the original main building of the Ministry of Justice, the State Guesthouse, the old Bank of Japan building and the No. 3 Usui Bridge of the Shin'etsu Trunk Line. Brick was used in this way to strongly impress the nations of Europe and America with Japan's growing modernization.Bricks, long an important building material in Europe, were relatively new to Japan. Records indicate that white (refractory) bricks used in iron-and steelmaking furnaces were manufactured in Saga in Kyushu in 1850. This is believed to be the first instance of bricks being made in Japan. As for red bricks, these were increasingly used after the Meiji Restoration of 1868 as an indispensable material in the construction of modern cities and towns. Nevertheless, in the beginning, they were made as needed by brick makers who were brought to locations near the construction sites.
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