- CEO
- Shou-Tao Chen
- Full Time Employees
- 28,648
- Sector
- Basic Materials
- Industry
- Steel
- Address
- 1 Chung-Kang Road Kaohsiung Taiwan, Province of China 81233
- IPO Date
- Aug 19, 1997
- Business
- China Steel Corporation (CSC), the largest integrated steel maker in Taiwan (ticker: CISXF), manufactures and sells a comprehensive range of steel products including plates (6-90mm thick, up to 3,800mm wide for construction, shipbuilding, bridges, pressure vessels); bars and wire rods (5.5-55mm diameters for structures, machine parts, cold heading, welding electrodes); hot-rolled coils, sheets, bands, and plates (1.2-12.7mm thick for automotive frames, pipes, appliances); cold-rolled coils (0.3-3.2mm thick); electrogalvanized coils (0.3-1.6mm thick with phosphate/chromate treatments for computers, furniture); hot-dip galvanized (GI) and galvannealed (GA) coils (0.3-2.4mm thick); colored pre-painted, embossed, and laminated coils; and electrical steel coils (0.5mm thick for motors, transformers); it also provides mechanical, electrical engineering services, solar and wind power generation, and raw material investments. Founded in 1971 and headquartered in Kaohsiung's Siaogang District with additional facilities in Qianzhen District and an office in Taipei, CSC operates an integrated steel mill with annual crude steel capacity around 10-12 million tonnes through four blast furnaces, serving domestic and export markets in construction, automotive, appliances, and energy sectors primarily in Asia including subsidiaries like China Steel Chemical Corporation (29% owned parent stake) and international ventures in India. In recent developments, CSC completed 30 new product projects in 2024 including 17 commercialized items, allocated NT$2.3 billion to R&D in 2024 and NT$532 million in Q1 2025, launched a major partnership with E-United Group (Yusco) in November 2025 for strategic collaboration, reported subsidiary Dragon Steel's NT$4.4 billion bond raise and NT$452 million equipment acquisition, continued blast furnace retrofits for emissions reduction targeting ultra-low standards by end-2025, and pursued business integration via potential mergers, acquisitions, and alliances amid U.S. policy shifts.