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Engine & Turbocharger Development Center toAccelerate Efficient and Interactive Development ofEngines and Turbochargers

M i ts u b i s h i H e a v y I n d u s t r i e s
E n g i n e & Tu r b o c h a r g e r, L td .

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engine & Turbocharger, Ltd. (MHIET) started as a company
controlled by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) in July 2016. The company handles enginesand turbochargers under the umbrella of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Forklift, Engine &Turbocharger Holdings, Ltd. (M-FET). At the same time, the Engine & Turbocharger Development
Center was established as a virtual organization integrating four technologies: MHIET's engine
technology and turbocharger technology, gasoline engine technology owned by UniCarriers
Corporation (hereinafter UC) under the umbrella of M-FET and technology owned by the Research& Innovation Center, a research division of MHI.

|1. Background of establishment of Engine & Turbocharger
Development Center
In July 2016, MHIET was established as a company controlled by MHI, handling diesel
engines, gas engines and turbochargers under the umbrella of M-FET. On the other hand, M-FET
was founded in March 2016, a littler earlier than MHIET and owns Global ComponentsTechnologies Corporation (hereinafter GCT), which handles gasoline engines and LPG gas
engines. MHI also owns the Research & Innovation Center, which has a research division forinternal combustion engines. Concurrently with the start of MHIET in July 2016, the Engine &Turbocharger Development Center, a virtual organization, integrating all four technologies
described above, was set up to accelerate efficient and integrated development.

|2. Organization of Engine & Turbocharger Development Center
The divisions of the Engine & Turbocharger Development Center are introduced in thisreport.
(1) MHIETMHIET consists of two divisions, the Engine & Energy Division and Turbocharger
Division. The Engine & Energy Division is engaged in the development, manufacturing andsale of diesel engines, gas engines and gasoline engines featuring an output lineup ranging fromabout 7 kW to 5750 kW. The Turbocharger Division carries out the development, manufacturing
and sale of turbochargers for automobile engines and industrial engines. Figure 1 shows theproduct lineup.
(2) GCTUC, a logistics machinery division under the umbrella of M-FET, conducts thedevelopment, manufacturing and sale of industrial vehicles such as forklifts, special vehicles
such as transfer cranes and construction vehicles such as skid-steer loaders. Furthermore, GCT
under the umbrella of UC carries out the development, manufacturing and sale of gasoline
engines, LPG engines and diesel engines of up to about 64kW. Figure 2 shows some of theproducts of UC and GCT.

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Example of MHIET's product lineups

Figure 2

Example of UC and GCT products(3)

MHI Research & Innovation Center
The Research & Innovation Center consists of 10 research divisions for individualtechnology fields. The Research & Innovation Center has been making efforts to grasp quickly
changing social needs and develop new technologies and products toward the next generation
based on the technical capabilities MHI has cultivated. The Engine System Center, a project
team that crosses research divisions, provides technical support for enhancing thecompetitiveness of existing products, development support for succeeding products and thedevelopment of key technologies toward future engines in close liaison with MHIET, which isin charge of product development. In addition to research and development, the Research &Innovation Center also provides support for all aspects of manufacturing including sales,design, materials, production, services, etc., through the utilization of its own technical andscientific approaches.
(4) Engine & Turbocharger Development Center
Through the establishment of M-FET and MHIET, the development of diesel engines,
gas engines and gasoline engines and the development of turbochargers mounted on engines
can be conducted within the same organization. Accordingly, the Engine & Turbocharger
Development Center was established as a virtual organization integrating the above fourtechnologies. Figure 3 shows an overview of the organization of the Engine & Turbocharger
Development Center.

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Figure 3Overview of the Organization of the Engine & Turbocharger Development Center|3. Effects of Engine & Turbocharger Development Center
Through the establishment of Engine & Turbocharger Development Center, four strengths
can be brought together: MHIET's engines offering a wide output range and holding an edge interms of diesel engines and gas engines; MHIET's turbochargers featuring the world's top-classperformance; GCT's leading gasoline engines and LPG engines for forklifts; and the MHI Research& Innovation Center, which has an advantage in terms of elemental technologies. Through thesynergistic effects of the combination of four technologies, it is expected that the acceleration ofdevelopment by virtue of concentration associated with the optimum allocation of development
resources, increased marketability represented by improved performance through complementarystrengths, the early generation of of new demand from a technical perspective, etc., will bepromoted, and both the engine and energy business and the turbocharger business can be rapidlyexpanded. Figure 4 shows an image of the synergistic effects of the integration of the four producttechnologies.

Figure 4

Synergistic effects of Engine & Turbocharger Development Center|4. Future development
The Engine & Turbocharger Development Center began operations concurrently with theestablishment of MHIET. UC's gasoline engine technology, MHIET's diesel engine andturbocharger technologies, and the technologies in each special field of the MHI Research &Innovation Center, which are the strengths of the individual divisions, are shared, thereby
accelerating the development of engines and the horizontal development of technologies. In thefuture, greater synergistic effects can be expected through the optimization of the development
method including the unification of design tools such as 3D-CAD and the construction of adatabase for the prevention of the recurrence of problems that occurred in the past in each division,and thus we will offer customers attractive and marketable engines.