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Keihin Hot Strip Mill

The Keihin Hot Strip Mill (HSM), a front runner in global steel production

A legacy forged on the waterfront of Tokyo Bay For more than a century, Japan’s steel industry has been shaped by a culture of precision, discipline, and relentless innovation. Few places embody this legacy more powerfully than Kawasaki, the industrial city that became home to Nippon Kokan (NKK) and later JFE Steel’s Keihin district. Rising […]

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Hyundai Dangjin Compact Strip Plant Blog

The story of Dangjin and the rise of thin slab technology 

Set along Korea’s western coastline, the Dangjin Works sits within a landscape shaped by logistics, shipbuilding, and coastal industry. It is a place where the country’s manufacturing capabilities took form, supported by the infrastructure that lines the Yellow Sea.  In the mid1990s, this site became home to a technology that reshaped the steel world: thin slab casting and

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