Factbox - Kobe Steel's affected customers: from computer chips to space ships
November 05, 2017 at 01:37 am EST
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(Reuters) - Kobe Steel Ltd's (>> Kobe Steel, Ltd.) 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.
(Reuters) - Kobe Steel Ltd's (>> Kobe Steel, Ltd.) 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:
Kobe Steel is integrated into global supply chains, supplying metals to companies including Bosch Ltd (>> Bosch Ltd), Hyundai Motor Co (>> Hyundai Motor Co), Kia Motors Corp (000270.KS), Ford Motor Co (>> Ford Motor Company) and Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC (>> Rolls-Royce).
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)
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