Nippon Kinzoku, a stainless steel manufacturer in Japan, announced by a press release that a fire happened at its third rolling facility at the Itabashi plant yesterday (November 19th) afternoon, which was confirmed to be put out after around 3 hours.

It was understood that there were no casualties but a part of the plant and equipment was damaged, but there hasn’t any news about the effect on production and shipment caused by the fire accident yet. Nippon Kinzoku said it will release the news once the company’s business was confirmed to be impacted significantly.