Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC) will take measures to realize the full capabilities of AM/NS Calvert, a US-based 50/50 joint venture between NSSMC and ArcelorMittal (AM), to manufacture ultra high tensile strength cold-rolled and coated steel sheets with high formability by the end of 2016. AM/NS Calvert will begin producing such materials up to 1.2 gigapascals (GPa) of tensile strength to be used for cold pressed structural car body parts.
In addition to the existing production capabilities, these new measures will make AM/NS Calvert the first overseas manufacturing site for NSSMC that is capable of producing ultra high tensile strength steel sheets with high formability. Currently, such steels are produced only at NSSMC manufacturing sites in Japan. I/N Tek and I/N Kote, the existing joint manufacturing sites of NSSMC and AM for automotive steel in the United States, have certain limitations in their capability to produce high tensile strength steel. NSSMC is ready to transfer its own technology and process for optimally controlling the metallurgical structural formation at the sub-micron level in order to establish production capability for such materials at AM/NS Calvert by the end of 2016.
