Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC) received Nissan Global Supplier Award – Innovation Prize for the development of high-formability ultra-high-tensile steel sheet of the 1.2GPa class. This is the first time NSSMC secured the prize, becoming the first steelmaker to receive this honour.
Nissan conferred this award in recognition of the development of ultra-high-tensile steel sheet that enables sufficient high formability for automotive body structure application, while also having 1.2GPa-class strength, and the fact of its world’s first application to Nissan vehicles.
