Shinohara Heavy Industries

Shinohara Heavy Industries (SHU or Shinohara) achieved worldwide prominence in late 2014 when it was selected as the contractor to provide hydraulic systems to the Jaeger Programme.
'Shi' is an unlucky word in Japanese as it sounds like the word for death (also 'shi'), therefore Shinohara Heavy Industries abbreviates to , using the Kanji for 'standing guard' and '(a ward or talisman providing) divine protection', 守 (at least during the Kaiju War). 
Shinohara Heavy Industries: SHU? Perhaps, during the war, their logo is a stylized 守?
Founded in Tokyo and still headquartered there, SHU earned steady returns building heavy construction equipment and rapidly developed into a regional leader in the design and fabrication of hydraulic systems.
The firm was eventually acquired by the Barclay-Harvey family of Point Piper, NSW, Australia, which used earnings from mine holdings to build a shipping concern, then leveraged that fortune to buy SHU. Under the Barclay-Harvey's aggressive leadership, SHU quickly grew from a regional powerhouse to a global one.
The award of the PPDC contract cemented SHU's reputation as the builder of hydraulic systems.
SHU then secured continuing goodwill by immediately contributing much of the profit from the PPDC contract to the construction of the Australian Jaeger, Lucky Seven.
SHU was a notable exception to a trend among contractors as the war progressed, refusing to directly supply the PPP with equipment or design expertise (SHU components could still be acquired through firms independent of SHU, however.) and continuing its staunch support of the Jaeger Programme in the press, in cutting deals to maintain Jaeger Programme access to SHU parts and equipment for the remaining Jaegers, and in expertise to stretch available components and materials as far as possible without compromising Jaeger combat effectiveness.
One example of such deal-making, SHU's agreement to provide novel hydraulic actuators to the Mark III Restoration Project for a share of any future profits from patent licensing (which was, and remains, an unlikely possibility), deserves special mention. The actuators formed a critical part of the deployment/retraction assembly for the restored G*psy Danger's chain swords and, as such, played an outsized part in the final battles of the war.
As the Shatterdomes were decommissioned in the latter part of 2024, SHU purchased three of the facilities to use as manufacturing plants and warehouses (Tokyo, Sydney, and Los Angeles) and secured the long-term lease of a portion of a fourth (Panama).
In mid-2025, after the retirement of the Barclay-Harvey family patriarch, leadership of SHU formally passed to the family's oldest son. Within six months, Natalie, the second sibling, staged a polite and relatively bloodless coup and took control. Under her leadership, SHU has aggressively pursued adapting Jaeger technology for civil and commercial use, as well as continuing research into improving Jaegers themselves as weapons in case of renewed Kaiju attack.
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SHU takes its name from the robot-building corporation in Patlabor.
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