🙇Report on the Kobe Steel Group’s misconduct
Facts relating to the Misconduct
As of October 26, 2017, we announced that 525 of our customers had received nonconforming products
from us, but the IIC’s further investigation detected new cases of misconduct as shown in Table 1.
The new cases are those discovered in the process of the IIC’s verification of and investigation into the
Group’s quality self-inspections, in addition to the four cases of potential Misconduct, which we announced
on October 26.
We have already contacted customers about the new cases and have also completed safety verification for
some of these cases. We will continue working by giving the highest priority to safety verification.
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