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In the Great Hanshin Earthquake of January 1995, the Kobe head office building and company housing collapsed, and the No. 3 Blast Furnace at the Kobe Steel Works was also damaged, resulting in an emergency shutdown, causing approximately JPY 100 billion in damage, the largest for a private company.
2017 Kobe Steel falsification of data scandal. As had been previously reported on October 9, Japan's third-biggest steelmaker, Kobe Steel, now admits to further falsification of product data. Steel wire products did not meet the specifications requested by customers. The scandal now affects about 500 customer companies.
The 2005 Japanese bridge scandal (橋梁談合事件, Kyōryō dangō jiken, 'Bridge bid-rigging case') was centered around the use of bid-rigging between 47 colluding Japanese firms and Japan Highway Public Corporation (JH) in the granting of contracts to build steel bridges in violation of Japanese competition law.
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Kobelco Construction Machinery America, LLC. is a manufacturer of excavators based in Houston, Texas, United States, with a manufacturing plant in Moore, South Carolina and is a subsidiary of Kobe Steel. A former global sales alliance between Kobe Steel and CNH Global ended in December 2012. [1]
It is an "integrated" steel works. Titanium processing mill is also located here, Kobe Steel having handled Titanium since 1954. [1] Currently, about 80 percent of Kobe Steel's iron and steel production is done in Kakogawa. Since 2007, only two of the three blast furnaces are in service.
Several months after the exposure of the Kobe Steel falsification scandal, which is among the suppliers of high-strength steel for Shinkansen trainsets, cracks were found upon inspection of a single bogie, and removed from service on 11 December 2017.