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https://scmp.com/country-reports/country-reports/topics/japan-business-report-feb-2019/article/2184237/regency-steel Country Reports
Regency Steel Japan helps global companies tackle offshore and structural challenges
- RSJ’s high-level steel is remarkably strong, lightweight, and resistant to fracturing and corrosion – features that are vital in rack and chord fabrication
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Wong Chun-yu, president
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Delivering 21 offshore rigs in a single year is no easy feat, but Keppel FELS did this in 2013, aided by niche steel components maker Regency Steel Japan (RSJ). The achievement was so unprecedented that the global rig design and construction company received the Guinness World Records title “largest manufacturer of offshore rigs” the following year. Keppel FELS continues to successfully deliver many of the world’s jack-up rigs and semi-submersibles using RSJ’s quality rack and chords, welded structures and other durable steel products.
“We have adopted Keppel’s core values including being quality-obsessed, and this makes us a very reliable supplier,” says Wong Chun-yu, RSJ president.
A joint venture of Keppel Offshore & Marine subsidiary FELS Offshore, Mitsui & Co., and Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal, RSJ applies its parent companies’ 40-year steel manufacturing expertise to support some of Japan’s major landmarks. These include the Tokyo Skytree and parts of the Tokyo International Airport at Haneda.
RSJ’s high-level steel is remarkably strong, lightweight, and resistant to fracturing and corrosion – features that are vital in rack and chord fabrication. The company’s innovative steel production techniques together with its heat treatment furnaces and 10,000-tonne press machines also allow it to offer various services that conform to customers’ objectives, budget and schedule.
Expanding its Asian and global business, RSJ exports steel components to many of Keppel Group’s projects overseas. Plans to widen its know-how in steel materials and methodologies that will allow it to adapt more quickly to market demands are underway. To continue delivering offshore applications such as offshore wind farm jackets and other services, RSJ welcomes strategic research and development collaborations with universities and partners globally and across Asia, particularly in mainland China, Taiwan and Vietnam.
“We are starting to diversify our offerings, but we will continue to do projects that we are good at,” Wong says. “We are open to partnerships where we can maximise our facilities and apply our niche proficiencies.”