Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Establishes 11 Million Forging Crankshafts Production Ability in the World

Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal got to the world’s largest maker of forging crankshaft, output capability in 4 base of the world, Japan, United States, China and India, reached to 11 million products per a year in fiscal 2012, up by around 20% compared with the previous year. It is on the background that the firm strengthened production capacity in India and China that automobile output is active. International Crankshaft which is a subsidiary of Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal in the United States, consider to increase forging Line from 3 to 4 in 2015, because GM indicates a willingness to change casting crankshaft to forging crankshaft. And the firm aims to establish no.5 manufacturing base in Indonesia.