Kobe Steel, Ltd. engages in the materials, machinery, and power businesses internationally. The company offers steel sheet products, including high-tensile strength, hot and cold rolled, electro-galvanized, and hot-dipped galvanized steel sheets; steel wire rods and bars; and aluminum and steel plates. It also provides steel casting and forging products, such as crankshafts, marine parts, chemical processing equipment, and rolls; materials for plastic molding; and titanium products, copper sheets and strips, and steel powders. In addition, the company offers robotic and electric power sources, and welding materials; and machinery products, including standard compressors, tire and rubber machinery products, rotating machinery products, nuclear power-related equipment, tire and rubber machinery, resin machinery, ultra-high pressure equipment, vacuum deposition equipment, metal processing machinery, various compressors, refrigeration machines, heat pumps, various plants as well as LNG vaporizers, pressure vessels, brazed aluminum heat exchangers, and micro channel heat exchanger and reactors. Further, it provides communication, power supply, automatic fare collection, and platform screen door systems; hydraulic and mini-hydraulic excavators, mini-wheel loaders, and road machinery; construction, metal, forestry, and industrial waste recycling machinery; and crawler and wheel cranes. Additionally, the company generates and supplies electric power; manufactures and sells target materials; and provides renovation, insurance, and other services. The company was founded in 1905 and is headquartered in Kobe, Japan.
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