Sanyo Special Steel Co., Ltd.

Company Profile

Sanyo Special Steel Co., Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells special steel products in Japan and internationally. The company operates through Specialty Steel, Metal Powder, Formed and Fabricated Materials, and Others segments. The Specialty Steel segment provides various special steel products, including bearing, engineering, stainless, heat resistant, and tool steel products. The Metal Powder segment manufactures and sells metal powders and powder metallurgy products. The Formed and Fabricated Materials segment offers cut rings, die-forged/rolled, forged rings, and cold-rolled ring products made from special steel bars and tubes. The Other segment provides information processing services. The company also engages in the trading of special steel products, steelmaking raw materials, and other materials; and the provision of security and facilities maintenance services, and machinery maintenance services. Its steel products are used in a range of automobiles, railroads, construction machines, electronics products, and information communication devices. The company was formerly known as Sanyo Steel Works and changed its name to Sanyo Special Steel Co., Ltd. in 1959. The company was founded in 1933 and is headquartered in Himeji, Japan. Sanyo Special Steel Co., Ltd. is a subsidiary of Nippon Steel Corporation.