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MHI to Establish Subsidiary to Handle Industrial Machinery Business
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Tokyo, February 3, 2012 - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), will establish a new subsidiary to handle the industrial machinery business, including material handling systems and rubber & tire machinery, effective April 1, 2012. The new company, to be wholly-owned by MHI, will be created by integrating the industrial machinery business, currently being operated by the Industrial Machinery Business, Technology & Solutions Division of MHI, and three existing MHI group companies, including MEC Engineering Service Co., Ltd. (MEC). Today, MHI and MEC signed an absorption-type company split agreement, and MEC and two other MHI group companies signed absorption-type merger agreement. Through this initiative, MHI aims to establish an agile and strong business structure capable of responding to severe market environment changes, strengthen business and stabilize revenue bases.
MEC, an engineering company, mainly operates businesses to do with material handling systems, control systems and marine related products, including after-sale services. Hiroshima Ryoju Engineering deals with the welding and assembly of rubber & tire machinery and large-sized can products, and Ryosen Engineers has been handling detail design and structural design of material handling systems and others. These three companies are wholly-owned subsidiaries of MHI.
Of the new company's businesses, the material handling systems and rubber & tire machinery concerns will shift their production overseas to allow domestic operations to focus on the enhancement of marketing and engineering capabilities. For the upstream equipment in iron-making, the company will focus on development and accelerate commercialization of related products. In chemical industry-use machinery, they will strengthen design capability and expand the production of large-sized chemical machinery and heat exchangers.
The Industrial Machinery Business, Technology & Solutions Division of MHI has been promoting consolidated management by separating business from MHI and establishing companies dedicated to the respective businesses such as the iron-making machinery business in 2000 and the compressor business in 2010. The latest company split is in line with the initiative to integrate the various functions separately handled by MHI's divisions and group companies into one with the aim of conducting speedy and effective business operations by eliminating duplicative work.
The newly established company will be directly managed by the Machinery & Steel Structure Systems business headquarters. The Industrial Machinery Business, Technology & Solutions Division will be dissolved.
MHI will closely liaise with the new company and fully support its business development.
Outline of the New Company
Name of company: MEC Engineering Service Co., Ltd. (to change effective April 1)
Business area: marketing, design, manufacture, installation and after-sale services for material handling systems, rubber & tire machinery, upstream equipment in iron-making, chemical industry-use machinery and others.
Establishment: October 1, 1984
Date of renaming: April 1, 2012 (scheduled)
Location: 4-6-22, Kannon-shinmachi, Nishi-ku, Hiroshima City, Hiroshima
President: Kazuo Iida
Capital: 1,000 million yen
Number of employees: Approximately 800
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