Satoshi Murata: progressing with China’s steel industry

(First blast furnace of Bao Gang kindled in 1985)

The partnership that has lasted for 40 years will continue, as Murata predicts that the high-end automobile industry’s demand for steel is on the rise. In 2005 the two companies founded BNA especially to meet the demand for steel plates. In 2010, NSSMC set up another company with Wuhan Steel to concentrate on tinplate. On November 4 last year, the 40th anniversary of NSSMC-Baowu partnership was celebrated.

(40th anniversary of NSSMC-Baowu partnership)

“I think NSSMC and the steel industry of China after reform and opening up are growing together. The 40th year is not an end but a new starting line of closer partnership.”