Steelmakers' business gets harder and harder
Customers - especially carmakers - have been demanding more advanced products to cut weight while retaining strength and versatility
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BEHIND the scandal engulfing Kobe Steel Ltd over the falsification of data for some of the materials that it supplied is a harsh reality for Japanese steel companies: the need to provide higher and higher quality metals to compete.
Kobe Steel rocked Japan's industrial economy with revelations this week that it faked data on the quality of some aluminium, copper and iron powder sales.
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