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Nippon Steel to invest in pipe maker in China.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2004

Kyodo News International, Tokyo Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 13--Nippon Steel Corp. said Wednesday it will invest some 100 million yen in a joint venture that Sumitomo Pipe & Tube Co. and Sumitomo Corp. founded in China's Guangzhou last November to produce steel pipes for vehicles.

The investment aims at meeting the demands of Japanese automakers for automotive parts in China, the steelmaker said.

After purchasing new shares to be issued by the joint venture, Nippon Steel will have a 15 percent equity stake in the firm, whose plant is planned to go on stream in January, it said.

The other stakes will be 51 percent for Sumitomo Pipe & Tube and 34 percent for Sumitomo Corp.

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