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Mitsubishi Electric to Supply Railway Systems for TfNSW
Biggest order in history of Mitsubishi Electric’s railway business in Oceanian MarketTOKYO, September 5, 2016 – Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that
RailConnect NSW (RailConnect), an unincorporated joint venture formed by Mitsubishi Electric’s
wholly-owned subsidiary Mitsubishi Electric Australia, Hyundai Rotem and UGL Limited, has been awarded
a contract by Transport for New South Wales (TfNSW) for the delivery and maintenance of a new fleet oftrains for the New Intercity Fleet.

New Intercity Fleet(Courtesy of www.transport.nsw.gov.au)

The New Intercity Fleet is a AU$ 2.3 billion NSW Government project to replace trains carrying customers
between Sydney and the Central Coast, Newcastle, the Blue Mountains and the South Coast. The fleet of
double deck trains will offer long distance customers a more enjoyable travelling experience, providing
comfortable seating, advanced communications technology and enhanced commuter amenities.

RailConnect will design and build 512 passenger cars, with the first trains to be delivered by the year 2019.
The joint venture will provide maintenance and asset management services to the new fleet commencing ondelivery of the first train in 2019 for a period of 15 years.

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The passenger cars will be designed, manufactured, tested and commissioned by Hyundai Rotem, with
Mitsubishi Electric Australia as technology provider and UGL supporting design and maintaining the fleet.
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation’s consolidated contract is expected to generate revenues of around AU$ 300
million, with its scope covering the railway systems, such as variable voltage variable frequency (VVVF)
inverters, traction motors and train monitoring systems.

Delivery toTransport for NSW
Railway systems (VVVF inverters, traction motors, train monitoring systems, passenger

Scope

information systems) for New Intercity Fleet double deck trains (512 cars) andmaintenance work

First Delivery

2019

RailConnect NSW
UGL Limited is a leading provider of engineering, construction and maintenance services with a diversified
end-market exposure across the core sectors of rail, transport and communication technology systems, oiland gas, water, power, resources and defense. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia and has developed close
links with TfNSW.
Hyundai Rotem is part of the Hyundai Motor Group and Korea’s only total railway systems specialist. The
company has secured international competitiveness in the field of design, manufacture and after-sales serviceof railway vehicles. Hyundai Rotem has a proven record of supplying railway vehicles, including electric
multiple units (EMUs), high speed trains and passenger coaches, to customers across 35 countries globally.
Mitsubishi Electric Australia is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation of Japan, aworld leader in the supply of sub-systems for propulsion, management and climate control for use in public
transport. The company has been supplying equipment for transportation applications in Australia since1970.

###About Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
With over 90 years of experience in providing reliable, high-quality products, Mitsubishi Electric
Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) is a recognized world leader in the manufacture, marketing and sales ofelectrical and electronic equipment used in information processing and communications, space development
and satellite communications, consumer electronics, industrial technology, energy, transportation andbuilding equipment. Embracing the spirit of its corporate statement, Changes for the Better, and its
environmental statement, Eco Changes, Mitsubishi Electric endeavors to be a global, leading green company,enriching society with technology. The company recorded consolidated group sales of 4,394.3 billion yen(US$ 38.8 billion*) in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016. For more information visit:
www.MitsubishiElectric.com*At an exchange rate of 113 yen to the US dollar, the rate given by the Tokyo Foreign Exchange Market on
March 31, 2016

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