The Port of Muroran is where Japan Steel Works (JSW) got its start. It still has a major plant here. This is a small portion of the plant. The Volendam passes the plant on the way out of Murorans Port.
Construction of JSW’s first steel mill, the Muroran Plant, was completed in 1907 on the reclaimed land of Bokoi Beach facing the natural harbor of Muroran,
In 2011 the plant roduced a 670-ton steel ingot, the world’s largest.
JSW was set up with investment from British firms Vickers, Armstrong Whitworth and Mitsui.
During World War II, they manufactured what was then the world’s largest gun barrel to be fitted on the battleship Yamato.
200 workers in the main plant in Muroran were killed in a 1945 attack by Allied Forces.
JSW’s’ services are in great demand owing to its role as one of only five manufacturers worldwide of the largest single-piece components of pressure vessels for nuclear reactors.
Japan Steel Works is the only one that can make cores in a single piece without welds, reducing risk of radiation leakage.
Main facilities:
120-ton electric furnace 150-ton electro-slag remelting furnace 5-ton vacuum induction melting furnace 3,000- to 14,000-ton presses 30,000-horsepower 4-high reversible plate mill12,000-ton pipeforming press low-frequency quenching equipment metal machining tools 70- to 730- ton wharf cranes.
Ever since its founding, the Muroran Plant has played a valuable part in the development of Japan′s heavy and chemical industries as a materials production center.
Making use of large production facilities, such as a 14,000-ton hydraulic press, and cutting-edge equipment, including a 150-ton electro-slag remelting furnace, the plant supplies the world with high-quality products that include very large to small cast and forged steel products, steel plates and pipes, reactors for oil refineries and petrochemical plants, as well as wind turbines and other products for the energy field.
Bulk Carrier Mineral Haiku is being unloaded at the JSW dock.
Vessel MINERAL HAIKU (IMO: 9489845, MMSI: 372216000) is a bulk carrier built in 2010 and currently sailing under the flag of Panama.
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