Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC) has announced that it has decided to reline coke oven No. 5 at its Kimitsu works in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, as part of the 2015-17 Mid-Term Management Plan, its major initiative to enhance mother mills in Japan and improve its competitiveness. The coke oven is planned to start operations in the second half of the financial year 2017-18.
With the relining project, NSSMC aims to enhance the capacity of the coke oven to approximately 900,000 mt per year. Investment for the project will total approximately JPY 33 billion ($309.97 million).