Fuji Iron & Steel

Fuji Iron & Steel was a major Japanese steel-producing company that existed from 1950 to 1970.

History

Fuji Iron & Steel was created in 1950, under the antitrust, anti-zaibatsu edict of the Allied Occupying Forces, as the old semi-government-owned Japan Iron & Steel was split into four entities, one of which being Yawata Steel Company. With its headquarters at Fuji Building in Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Fuji had the following main steel plants:

Kamaishi Steel Works, Kamaishi, Iwate
Nagoya Works, Tokai, Aichi - Bought in 1967 from Tokai Steel, which had been established in 1958 to satisfy demand from Toyota, etc. near Nagoya
Hirohata Works, Himeji, Hyogo
Oita Steel Works, Ōita, Ōita - This plant was being built, waiting for its first mill in operation in 1971.

It also had a sizable amount of chemical and construction business. Its central research facility was located in Sagamihara, Kanagawa.
As the antitrust sentiments waned, Fuji merged itself in 1970 with Yawata Steel to form the new Nippon Steel Corporation. In 2012, the merger of Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Industries created Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation.