NSSMC to Double Exports of Forged Wheel for Railroad

Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal (NSSMC) will double exports of forged wheel for railroad. Though NSSMC is producing 100,000 forged wheels per year for domestic and 70,000 for abroad in the steel works in Konohana-ku Osaka, the firm plans to add 70,000 forged wheel to the area including Europe and India that railway demand is expanding, and aims annual 240,000 production capacity.