Received order for a total of eight units, including high-pressure return water pumps for a carbon-recycling test blast furnace for JFE Steel Corporation’s East Japan Works (Chiba District) [Orders Received in January 2024]

JFE Steel Corporation is a steel manufacturer formed through the merger of Kawasaki Steel Corporation and Nippon Kokan (NKK) in 2003. Since its establishment, JFE Steel Corporation has led the steel industry under the corporate philosophy of “The JFE Group will contribute to society with the world’s most innovative technology.”

As a pioneer in the Keiyo Industrial Zone, JFE Steel Corporation’s East Japan Works (Chiba District) was Japan’s first integrated steelmaking plant built in the postwar period. The large-scale steel mill, which covers an area around 170 times the size of the Tokyo Dome (approximately 7.66 million m²), produces high-grade steel products using state-of-the-art technology and equipment.

The company has adopted Torishima pumps for the construction of a new carbon-recycling test blast furnace* for carbon-neutral steelmaking. This pump supplies return water (water that can be used repeatedly) to various locations and is an important piece of equipment that supports the operation of the test blast furnace.

The carbon-recycling blast furnace is designed to reduce CO₂ emissions by reacting CO₂ generated in the blast furnace with hydrogen to convert it into methane, which is then recycled as a reducing agent to reduce carbon consumption.

The company has been using Torishima pumps at its East Japan Works as well as at other steel mills, and the high evaluation of Torishima pumps’ past achievements, quality, and performance has led to the order.

Steel is a fundamental material that supports society and our daily lives, used in buildings and machinery as well as automobiles, household appliance, steel cans, tableware, and many other fields. We will continue to contribute to carbon neutrality and people’s daily lives as well as the production of high-quality steel products through our high-performance, high-quality pumps.

* Adopted in the “Development of low-carbon technologies using external hydrogen and CO₂ contained in blast fur nace exhaust gas” of the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), a national research and development agency, under its research and development commission and grant project JPNP21019, Green Innovation Fund Project: Hydrogen Utilization in Iron and Steelmaking Processes.