OREANDA-NEWS. July 24, 2012. SSC Co., Ltd. (President: Toyoharu Tanimoto) held an inauguration ceremony for its Tohoku Plant in the Esashi Frontier Park, Oushu City, Iwate on Tuesday, July 24, at 10.30 a.m. The opening ceremony was attended by around 50 people including Iwate Governor Takuya Tasso, Oushu Mayor Masaki Ozawa, customers, and people involved in the construction.

SSC is a coil center that is owned and operated by Kanpoh Steel Co., Ltd., Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd. (Sumitomo Metals), Sumitomo Corporation, and Sumikin Bussan Corporation. By establishing a new coil center in the Tohoku region, which is regarded as the third domestic manufacturing base of Toyota Motor Corporation, SSC aims to establish a steel sheet processing base that improves delivery times, reduces transportation costs, and stabilizes supply of steel sheet.

Based on SSC’s accumulated technological capabilities, the new plant will help reconstruct the Tohoku region, which was damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 2011, into a major manufacturing base in Japan.