Kobe Steel escapes recalls in cheating scandal — but 88 customers still have to report
Tokyo — Kobe Steel said on Thursday that 88 of its customers had yet to confirm its products were safe in the light of widespread tampering of specifications, but it has not received any requests for recalls. Twenty-six of these customers were overseas companies, Kobe Steel CEO Hiroya Kawasaki told a news conference. He did not name any of the companies. "The scope of the wrongdoing found is far beyond what I had imagined at the start of the probe," he said. Japan’s third-largest steel maker, which supplies manufacturers of cars, planes, trains and other products across the world, said earlier this month that about 500 of its customers received products in which specifications were falsified, one of the biggest industrial scandals in Japan. Kawasaki updated the total number of affected customers to 525 on Thursday and said the company had assessed that there were no safety issues with falsely certified products sent to 437 customers. Of these, 229 customers had confirmed the safety ...
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