The world's second-biggest steelmaker Japan-based Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. (NSSMC) has announced that it has decided to reline the coke oven No. 5 of its subsidiary Hokkai Iron & Coke Corporation, as part of its major initiative to enhance facilities in Japan. The coke oven will be relined with an investment of approximately JPY 13 billion ($117.4 million) and is expected to resume production in the first half of the financial year 2019-20.
Hokkai Iron & Coke Corporation, a consolidated subsidiary of NSSMC, is engaged in the pig iron processing of NSSMC’s Muroran Works.