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³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ͵ÅÄ Corporation
³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ͵ÅÄ Galvanizing (Thailand) Begins Operating Continuous Galvanizing Line
Tokyo --- ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ͵ÅÄ Corporation announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ͵ÅÄ Galvanizing (Thailand) has begun operating a continuous galvanizing line at the company¡¯s production facility in the Hemaraj Eastern Seaboard Industrial Estate of southeast Thailand¡¯s Rayong Province. Commercial production will begin following customer approvals.
Thailand, the biggest automobile-producing country in Southeast Asia, hosts the production and exporting bases of numerous automakers. With production capacity and new plant construction both expected to increase, demand for high-grade automotive steel sheets is envisioned growing.
Strengthened by its new continuous galvanizing line in Thailand, ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ͵ÅÄ will support the expansion plans of automakers by meeting their requests for local procurement and increasingly sophisticated products and services.
| Continuous Galvanizing Line | ||
| Product | Hot-dip galvanized steel sheets mainly for automobiles | |
| Sheet sizes | Thickness from 0.4mm–2.3mm and widths from 800mm–1,880mm | |
| Annual capacity | 400,000 tons | |
| JFE Steel Galvanizing (Thailand) | ||
| Location: | Hemaraj Eastern Seaboard Industrial Estate, Rayong Province, Thailand | |
| Establishment | November 2008 | |
| President: | Yoshiyuki Morita | |
| Employees: | 242 | |
| Capital: | Approximately 300 million USD | |
| Ownership: | JFE Steel Corporation (100%) | |
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