Posted on 31 Jul 2017
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation and PT Krakatau Steel Tbk established a joint venture PT KRAKATAU NIPPON STEEL SUMIKIN (KNSS) in Indonesia for the manufacture and sale of automotive flat steel products. After the construction, KNSS has started commercial production on July 24th of 2017.
KNSS has built a galvanizing, annealing and processing line (GAPL), which was an integrated manufacturing line consisting of a continuous annealing line and a continuous galvanizing line.
This is the same as the state-of-the-art equipment now in operation at NSSMC’s steelworks, and is capable of producing high-grade, high-quality cold-rolled, hot-dip galvanized, and galvannealed steel sheets, including steel sheets for automotive outer panels and high-strength steel sheets up to a 1.2GPa class.
