Tokyo Steel Okayama works to restart HRC after 7 years

After having halted producing hot-rolled coils (HRCs) at its Okayama works in western Japan since April 2015, Tokyo Steel Manufacturing, Japan's leading electric-arc-furnace steel producer, will resume producing HRCs at this steelworks around the end of 2022 or the start of 2023 in response to the growing demand for HRCs and the growing competitiveness of EAF mills with the decarbonization efforts in steelmaking globally.