- CEO
- Shogo Sakamoto
- Full Time Employees
- 4,068
- Sector
- Non-energy minerals
- Industry
- Steel
- Address
- Aqua Dojima West Osaka OS Japan 530-0004
- IPO Date
- Nov 14, 2006
- Business
- Kyoei Steel Ltd. manufactures, processes, and sells steel products primarily using electric arc furnaces to recycle steel scrap; its core offerings include concrete reinforcing bars (rebars), with the largest domestic market share in Japan, merchant bars such as flat bars, equal angle bars, I-beams, and structural round bars, billets, threaded rebars and joints, wire rods, and deformed steel bars for civil engineering and construction applications. The company operates through Domestic Steel, Overseas Steel, Environmental Recycling, and other segments, providing waste collection, transportation, and treatment services for general, industrial, and medical waste using proprietary arc heat detoxification technology; it also produces recycled crushed ballast, construction materials, casting products, and engages in port operations, in-plant loading/unloading, automobile transportation, insurance agency, and scrap metal processing for iron, aluminum, and nonferrous metals. Kyoei Steel maintains plants in Japan's four major demand areas—Kanto, Chubu, Kansai/Chu-Shikoku, and Kyushu—for local production and consumption, while expanding overseas in Vietnam and North America to establish a global tripolar structure, targeting infrastructure, construction, and recycling markets. Founded on August 21, 1947, and headquartered at 1-4-16 Dojimahama, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan, the company reported consolidated net sales of 323 billion yen for the year ended March 2025, with 990 employees. Recent developments include strengthening its overseas presence through acquisitions of bases in northern Vietnam and Canada, enhancing its global operations amid diversification into port and cast metal businesses; it continues to emphasize low-CO2 steel minimill production and material recycling contributions to a sustainable society.