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Krosaki Harima Corporation
Japan's largest refractory company; Nippon Steel subsidiary; produces magnesia-carbon bricks, high-alumina refractories, and monolithics for steel, glass, and cement industries. Kita-Kyushu Japan is primary production site; strong position in Japanese domestic market and export to Asian steel mills.
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BOF & EAF Steel Refractories
50%Monolithics & Castables
25%Glass & Cement Refractories
15%Export & International
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Origin2023
Krosaki Harima's origins trace directly to the Yawata Imperial Steel Works — Japan's first modern integrated steelworks, established in 1901 by the Meiji Japanese government in Yahata (now part of Kitakyushu), Fukuoka Prefecture. The Yawata works was modeled on German steel technology and German refractory expertise; Japan recruited German engineers and technicians to establish both the steelmaking operations and the supporting industries, including refractory manufacturing. Krosaki Refractories grew from the supplier relationships established to serve the Yawata steelworks in the early 20th century. After WWII, the Yawata steelworks became Yawata Steel (one of Japan's major integrated steel companies) and ultimately merged into Nippon Steel in 1970 (when Yawata Steel and Fuji Steel merged). Krosaki Refractories and later Harima Ceramic — both Nippon Steel group companies — merged to form Krosaki Harima in 2001, consolidating Nippon Steel's refractory supply within a single captive supplier. Japan's most important steelworks, built in 1901 to supply the Meiji military industrial complex, ultimately also built the dominant refractory company that still serves the Japanese steel industry 120+ years later.
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