Japanese steel giant
Nippon Steel has announced that, in connection with the company's suspension of
galvanized steel
pipe deliveries after
galvanized steel pipes processed at its Kimitsu Works were discovered to be insufficiently
galvanized, the
Japan Water Works Association temporally suspended their on-site inspections at Kimitsu.
Nippon Steel said that it is now awaiting a follow-up inspection by the
Japan Water Works Association, subsequent to which it will take measures to ensure stable manufacturing conditions and to improve its quality assurance system toward the resumption of the delivery of
galvanized steel pipes.