Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

Kawasaki Heavy, Mitsui Engineering eye business...
A just-completed transportation vessel leaves the slipway at Kawasaki Heavy Industries’ shipbuilding yard in Kobe on April 19. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. and Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. are close to starting talks on integrating their business operations, sources said April 22.
Japan nears deal in Turkey to export first...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. President Shunichi Miyanaga (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
A consortium of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and France’s Areva SA is close to signing a contract worth more than $22 billion (2 trillion yen) for a nuclear power plant...
PHOTO: Ship shaped like home plate to survey sea...
The broad seabed exploration vessel is seen under construction in Nagasaki on Jan. 9. (Wataru Sekita)
NAGASAKI--A curious seafaring vessel, shaped like the home plate of a baseball diamond, is under construction at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.’s Nagasaki Shipyard &...
Hitachi to deepen ties with MHI, sever some with GE
Hiroaki Nakanishi, president of Hitachi Ltd., speaks at company headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 25. (Tomoya Fujita)
Hitachi Ltd. is to deepen an alliance with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., possibly integrating its railways business, Hitachi's president said Dec. 25.
MHI hopes to work with Hitachi in transportation,...
Hideaki Omiya, president of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., speaks in an interview on Nov. 30. (Satoshi Kubo)
Following the announcement of a planned joint venture in thermal energy, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. President Hideaki Omiya said his company hopes to expand its...
MHI, Hitachi to merge thermal power businesses
Hideaki Omiya, president of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., left, and Hiroaki Nakanishi, president of Hitachi Ltd., in Tokyo on Nov. 29 after reaching a basic agreement on a tie-up in thermal power generation systems (Nobuhiro Shirai)
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and Hitachi Ltd. said Nov. 29 they will merge their thermal power businesses as part of a push to be ranked among the world's "Big Three"...
Mitsubishi to develop, market camera capable of...
A prototype of the special camera captures an image of Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. The areas with colorful gas-like clouds are where high levels of radioactive materials can be found. (Provided by JAXA)
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. plans to begin sales in February of a special camera capable of "seeing" radiation from cesium and other radioactive materials.
Hitachi shifts focus of nuclear business overseas
Hitachi President Hiroaki Nakanishi (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Hitachi Ltd. is set to acquire Britain's Horizon Nuclear Power, underscoring the company's shift of focus to the nuclear plant sector overseas.
BIZ BRIEF: MHI to deliver 1st gas turbine to U.S....
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. said Oct. 11 its first gas turbine ever manufactured in the United States was shipped from the Savannah Machinery Works.
BIZ BRIEF: MHI to expand global marketing of tools
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. said Sept. 5 that it is ramping up its proposal-based marketing approach of machine tools and cutting tools to the world by collaborating with...
BIZ BRIEF: MHI to supply 2 gas turbine power plants ...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. said Aug. 16 it has received an order for two blast-furnace-gas fired gas turbine combined-cycle power generation plants from China's Baotou...
BIZ BRIEF: Mitsubishi provides engine valves for...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries announced Aug. 2 it has started shipments of "hollow-head" engine valves to Nissan Motor Co. for use in the 2012 model of Nissan's GT-R sports car.
Mitsubishi, Imabari team up to take on Asian...
Imabari Shipbuilding Co.’s shipyard in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. said May 28 that it signed a technological collaboration agreement on container carriers with Imabari Shipbuilding Co.
Japanese rocket carries S. Korean satellite into...
The H-2A Launch Vehicle No. 21, carrying Japanese and South Korean satellites, is launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Minami-Tane, Kagoshima Prefecture, on May 18. (Takeshi Iwashita)
For the first time, a Japanese rocket has carried a foreign satellite into space.
Rocket to carry Japanese, S. Korean satellites into ...
The Asahi Shimbun
The H-2A rocket set to lift off May 18 from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture will put a Japanese satellite into orbit and for the first time, one from South ...
Jordan's first nuclear reactor could be delayed by...
Khaled Toukan, chairman of the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (Shingo Kuzutani)
AMMAN, Jordan--The head of the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) said the nation's first nuclear reactor could be delayed by continued armed conflict in neighboring Syria.
MHI to continue selling nuclear reactors
Hideaki Omiya, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries president, speaks at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on May 10. (Hiroaki Kimura)
Despite the unprecedented Fukushima nuclear disaster, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. views nuclear power generation as a core component of its business.
Shipbuilders bank on eco-ships to refill order books
The Emerald Ace, the last commercial vessel built at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.’s Kobe shipyard, is launched on March 9. (Takuya Isayama)
Japanese shipbuilders are investing in energy-efficient vessel technologies in the hope of fighting off cheap competition from Chinese and South Korean rivals.
Assembly starts on Japan's next-generation fighter...
A model of the prototype fighter jet under development (Hiroaki Kimura)
Work started on March 28 on a prototype of the nation's next-generation fighter jet, which will be produced entirely in Japan.
Toshiba: Completion Ceremony of Tanjung Jati B...
February 7, 2012 -- Sumitomo Corporation (Sumitomo Corporation; Head Office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Susumu Kato), Toshiba Corporation (Toshiba; Head Office:...