Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Technical Review Vol. 53 No. 1 (2016)

FOREWORD

Technical Review Special Edition:Machinery, Equipment & Infrastructure
Kaz uak i Kimura
Exec utive Vi ce Pres ide n t
Pres id en t a nd C EO ,Mach in ery, Eq uipme n t & In fr as truc tur e

Welcome to the special edition of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Technical Review featuring ourMachinery, Equipment & Infrastructure businesses.
In April 2014, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) restructured its operational segments based onspecific business domains in order to swiftly achieve a greater global presence, cultivate new
business areas, and execute M&A. Our Machinery, Equipment & Infrastructure domain offers
wide-ranging products that form the foundation of social and industrial developments. The lineup
includes waste processing plants, tunnel boring machines, and multi-story parking structures forsocial infrastructure, as well as steel machinery and compressors for core industries. Also offeredfor various industries are engines, turbochargers, refrigerators, machining tools, forklifts, printing
and paperwork machinery, food packaging systems, and injection-molding machines. In addition,
further corporate restructuring is being pursued to ensure that MHI responds effectively tochanging market needs with diverse products. Examples of such developments are particle
accelerators, which play a key role in understanding the universe and matter, and thin, high-quality
OLED panels.
This special edition highlights ten examples of products and technologies, as well as newly
established breakthrough group companies and facilities showcasing recent developments in thefields of social infrastructure and industrial machinery pursued by the Machinery, Equipment &Infrastructure domain.
Featured as part of our environment-related products are two types of resource-recycling waste
treatment facilities, one equipped with a hybrid power generator and another with the SMASH(SMart ASH treatment) system, which enables incinerator ash to be reused as a resource for otherapplications, and also a sewage-sludge incineration power-station.
For the mechanical system business, we feature the first installation of a lift park system over
100 meters high, designed for high-rise structures.
We also introduce two new companies in the industrial machinery business. Primetals
Technologies Limited is a new joint venture established by former Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals
Machinery, Inc. and former Siemens VAI Metal Technologies. The company offers comprehensive
upstream-to-downstream solutions to clients in the metals industry. The other featured company,
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Mechatronics Systems, Ltd., continues to evolve as it adds morediverse products to its lineup. Also in this field, we describe Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Compressor Corporation’s newly opened facility in the hub of the U.S. oil and gas industry and anew mid-sized electric injection molding machine that provides high-precision, real-time
integrated control during the molding process.
This edition concludes with examples of new business initiatives that showcase our particle
accelerator technology, which has contributed to the development of the world’s most advanced
accelerator system, and OLED panels ideally suited for office space lighting.
We deeply appreciate your ongoing support and guidance in our pursuit of excellence.

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