- Business
- Osaka Steel Co., Ltd. manufactures and sells steel sections, bars, billets, and processed steel products primarily for construction, civil engineering, shipbuilding, steel towers, and industrial machinery applications in Japan. The company offers equal angles; unequal angles; channels; I-beams; round bars; deformed bars from D10 to D51 in steel types SD295 to SD490; mechanical joints for reinforcing bars; rails and fishplates; elevator guide rails; flat bars; square bars and special shaped bars; colored angles and channels in gray, dark gray, and red rust finishes; as well as billets and other semi-finished steel products. Founded on May 15, 1978 and headquartered at Keihanshin-Midosuji Building 11F, 3-6-1, Dosho-machi, Chuo-ku, Osaka 541-0045, Japan, Osaka Steel operates as a subsidiary of Nippon Steel Corporation with production bases in Osaka and Kumamoto. In fiscal 2025, the company implements a self-share repurchase program of up to 9,000,100 shares for approximately 22 billion yen, primarily from parent Nippon Steel, to optimize capital structure; lists on the Fukuoka Stock Exchange alongside Tokyo to enhance liquidity and regional investor access; and raises shaped steel contract prices by 3,000 yen per ton for December 2025 amid scrap cost increases.