Factbox: Kobe Steel's affected customers: from computer chips to space ships

Yokohama Rubber Co

05/11/2017 01:00

Nov 5 (Reuters) - Kobe Steel Ltd's  5406.T  tampering with 
specifications has led to a scramble among the 525 customers 
currently affected to check the safety of their cars, planes, 
trains and other products. 
    The metals from Kobe Steel whose specifications have been  
falsified have been used in a dizzying array of products 
including air conditioners, Blu-ray discs, car doors, computer 
chips, copper pipes, heat exchangers, gear boxes, nuclear power 
plant parts, ship engines and space ships. 
    No safety issues have been reported. 
    Customers that have received falsely certified parts 
include:  
     
    Automakers 
    Toyota Motor Corp  7203.T , Nissan Motor Co  7201.T , Honda 
Motor Co  7267.T , Mazda Motor Corp  7261.T , Subaru Corp 
 7270.T , Mitsubishi Motors Corp  7211.T  and Daihatsu Motor Co 
Ltd  7267.T .  
     
    Aerospace 
    Honda said affected products have been used in its HondaJet, 
the first aircraft developed by an automaker since World War 
Two.  
    Other affected manufacturers include the world's biggest 
maker of passenger jets Boeing Co  BA.N , Mitsubishi Heavy 
Industries Ltd  7011.T  and IHI Corp  7013.T .  
     
    Railways  
    Railway operators across Japan including Central Japan 
Railway Company Co  9022.T  (JR Tokai), East Japan Railway Co 
 9020.T  (JR East), West Japan Railway Co  9021.T  (JR West), 
Tokyo Metro Co Ltd and Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Inc  9042.T .  
     
    Utilities 
    Chugoku Electric Power Co Inc  9504.T , Hokuriku Eletric 
Power Co  9505.T , Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd, Kansai Electric Power 
Co Inc  9503.T , Kyushu Electric Power Co Inc  9508.T  and Tokyo 
Electric Power Company Holdings Inc  9501.T  (Tepco). 
     
    Other products using affected metals include:  
    Air conditioners from Mitsubishi Electric Corp  6503.T .  
    Aircraft parts and engine components from Kawasaki Heavy 
Industries Ltd  7012.T .  
    Blu-ray discs from Panasonic Corp  6752.T . 
    Cooling equipment from Toshiba Corp  6502.T .  
    Defence equipment from makers MHI, IHI, Kawasaki Heavy and 
Komatsu Ltd  6301.T . 
    Gearboxes for aircraft and vacuum pumps from Shimadzu Corp 
 7701.T . 
    Heat exchangers from Toyota-affiliated parts manufacturer 
Denso Corp  6902.T . 
    Motorcycles from Suzuki Motor Corp  7269.T .  
    Ship engines from Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co Ltd 
 7003.T . 
     
    Kobe Steel is intergrated into global supply chains, 
supplying metals to companies including Bosch Ltd  BOSH.NS , 
Hyundai Motor Co  005380.KS , Kia Motors Corp (000270.KS), Ford 
Motor Co  F.N  and Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC  RR.L .  
    The steelmaker makes wire rod for engine valve springs found 
in half the world's cars, aluminium discs for half of the 
world's hard drives and 40 percent of the engine crankshafts 
used in large ships.  
    Kobe Steel is Asia's No.1 manufacturer of semiconductor 
leadframes, the base material for chips, and one the world's top 
makers of the large forged casks used to store spent nuclear 
fuel. 
 
 (Reporting by Sam Nussey, Yuka Obayashi, Osamu Tsukimori, Joe 
White, and Hyunjoo Jin; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan) 
 ((sam.nussey@thomsonreuters.com; +81364411596; Reuters 
Messaging: sam.nussey.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)) 
 
Keywords: KOBE STEEL SCANDAL/CUSTOMERS