Kobe Steel, Ltd. (KST.F)

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Kobe Steel, Ltd.

2-4, Wakinohama-Kaigandori 2-chome
Chuo-ku
Kobe 651-8585
Japan
81 78 261 5111
https://www.kobelco.co.jp

Sector(s): Basic Materials
Industry: Steel
Full Time Employees: 38,488

Key Executives

Name	Title	Pay	Exercised	Year Born
Mr. Mitsugu Yamaguchi	President, CEO & Representative Director	602.97k	N/A	1958
Yuichiro Goto	Executive Officer & Head of the Technical Development Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
Yasushi Okano	Head of Rugby Cen & Exe Off of Legal Dep, HR Dep, Civil Eng & Cons Tech. Dep and Mach & Mat Proc Dep	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Makoto Mizuguchi	Executive VP & Head of the Steel & Aluminum Business	N/A	N/A	1959
Mr. Jiro Kitagawa	Executive Officer & Head of the Electric Power Business	N/A	N/A	1961
Kazuaki Kawahara	Senior Managing Executive Officer	N/A	N/A	N/A
Yasushi Okubo	Senior Managing Executive Officer	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Yoshihiko Katsukawa	Executive Vice President & Representative Director	N/A	N/A	1962
Shoji Miyazaki	Executive Officer & Head of the Advanced Materials Business	N/A	N/A	N/A
Masamichi Takeuchi	Managing Executive Officer & Head of the Machinery Business	N/A	N/A	N/A

Amounts are as of December 31, 2023 and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. Pay is salary, bonuses, etc. Exercised is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year. Currency in EUR.

Description

Kobe Steel, Ltd. engages in the materials, machinery, and electric power businesses worldwide. 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 robots and electric power sources, and welding materials; and machinery products, including standard compressors, tire and rubber machinery products, rotating machinery products, plastic processing machinery products, advanced technology equipment, rolling mill products, and ultra-high-pressure equipment, as well as LNG vaporizers, pressure vessels, brazed aluminum heat exchangers, and micro channel heat exchanger and reactors. Further, it provides signaling, 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; offers material and structural analysis, testing, physical analysis, and other services; manufactures and sells target materials and test equipment; sells and rents detached homes; and provides brokerage, renovation, insurance, and other services, as well as operational management services of public facilities. It also provides services in the field of iron units; and water treatment, waste incineration, PCB detoxification, and soil remediation services. The company was founded in 1905 and is headquartered in Kobe, Japan.

Corporate Governance

Kobe Steel, Ltd.’s ISS Governance QualityScore as of April 29, 2024 is 1. The pillar scores are Audit: 1; Board: 1; Shareholder Rights: 7; Compensation: 1.

Corporate governance scores courtesy of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Scores indicate decile rank relative to index or region. A decile score of 1 indicates lower governance risk, while a 10 indicates higher governance risk.