Mechel, one of the leading Russian mining and steel groups, has announced that it has established an official representative office in Tokyo, Japan.
Mechel's new representative office in Tokyo is intended to support the company's business in Japan, to conducting market researches, to arrange meetings with its current partners and to search for new ones, to advertise the group's products, and to perform representative functions.
Mechel has long-standing partnership relations with Japanese consumers of its products. It supplies coking and steam coal concentrates produced by its Yakutugol subsidiary, as well as ferrosilicon and ferrochrome to Japan. Mechel's new representative office is the second office in the Asia-Pacific region. As SteelOrbis previously reported, in August 2009, Mechel opened its representative office in Seoul, capital of South Korea.
In addition to Japan and South Korea, Romania and Republic of Bulgaria are the countries of successful operations of Mechel's representative offices, which enable the company to carefully monitor regional markets' fluctuations and to be prepared for changes in such markets' demands and start supplies of necessary products to the customers promptly.