Focus Needed on Proper Small Bar Supply-Demand Balance: Assn Chairman

摘要

Japan’s electric steelmakers as a whole need to focus on the formation of an appropriate supply-demand balance for small bars because figures on April-October small bar production and shipments were worse than those in the same period of last year as in the case of various construction-related figures, He is concurrently an executive officer and the general manager of the building materials division at Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. He made his comments at the regular press conference the association held Nov 26.