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Hitachi, Ltd.
Native name
株式会社日立製作所
Kabushikigaisha Hitachi Seisaku-sho
lit. "Share Company Hitachi Manufacturing Plant"
Public
Industry Conglomerate
Founded 1910; 114 years ago (1910)
Hitachi, Ibaraki, Japan
Founder Namihei Odaira
Headquarters
Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
,
Japan
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Toshiaki Higashihara [jp]
(Executive Chairman)
Keiji Kojima(businessman) [jp]
(President and CEO)
Products
Services
Revenue Increase ¥10.264 trillion (2021)
Operating income
Increase ¥738.2 billion (2021)
Increase ¥583.2 billion (2021)
Total assets Increase ¥13.887 trillion (2021)
Total equity Increase ¥4.341 trillion (2021)
Number of employees
397,732 (total)
29,485 (non-consolidated) 368,247 (consolidated)
(as of March 2022)

Hitachi is a large Japanese manufacturing company. It was founded in 1910 in Tokyo .

Hitachi is headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo. The company specialises in a diverse range of products, including digital systems, power and renewable energy solutions, railway systems, healthcare products, and financial systems.

Products and services

Automotive systems

Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas Offices Farmington Hills Michigan
Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas Offices, Farmington Hills, Michigan
Hitachi U106AL crawler crane
Hitachi U106AL crawler crane
  • Car Information Systems
  • Drive Control
  • Electric Powertrain Systems
  • Engine Management Systems

Construction machinery

Hitachi ZX490LCH-6
A Hitachi hydraulic excavator in use
  • Hydraulic Excavators
  • Forestry Equipment
  • Mechanical & Hydraulic Cranes
  • Mining Dump Trucks
  • Crawler Dump trucks
  • Wheel Loaders

Defense systems

  • Military vehicles
  • Vetronics
  • Crisis management
  • C4I systems
  • Satellite image processing systems
  • Social Infrastructure security business (in coordination with Hitachi's Infrastructure Systems Group)
  • Electric propulsion technology
  • Electro-mechanical systems (including some robotics research & development)
  • Advanced Combat Infantry Equipment System [ACIES] (JSDF) - Primary contractor

Digital media and consumer products

2008 Hitachi aircon outdoor unit RAM-5DNS
2008 Hitachi air conditioning outdoor unit
  • Air conditioning equipment - jointly with Johnson Controls
  • Hitachi Magic Wand
  • Optical disc drives - jointly with optical disc drive division of LG as Hitachi-LG Data Storage
  • White goods (refrigerators, washing machines, etc.) - majority stake of ex-Japan business sold to Arcelik.

Electronic systems and equipment

Advanced materials

  • Specialty steels
  • Wires and cables

Information and telecommunication systems

Hitachi, Ltd. (Toyokawa Factory)
The Hitachi factory in Toyokawa, Japan

Power systems

Social infrastructure and industrial systems

G1TOWER Hitachi
Hitachi's G1TOWER, currently the world's tallest elevator research tower, located at Hitachinaka, Ibaraki

Others

  • Logistics
  • Property management

Subsidiaries

Hitachi Vantara

Hitachi Vantara is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi which provides hardware, software and services to help companies manage their digital data. Its flagship products are the Virtual Storage Platform (for enterprise storage), Hitachi Unified Storage VM for large-sized companies, Hitachi Unified Storage for small and mid-sized companies, Hitachi Content Platform (archiving and cloud architecture), Hitachi Command Suite (for storage management), Hitachi TrueCopy and Hitachi Universal Replicator (for remote replication), and the Hitachi NAS Platform.

Since September 19, 2017, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has become part of Hitachi Vantara, a new company that unifies the operations of Pentaho, Hitachi Data Systems and Hitachi Insight Group. The company name "Hitachi Data Systems" (HDS) and its logo is no longer used in the market. Hitachi Consulting, the group's international management and technology consulting subsidiary with headquarters in Dallas, Texas, was integrated with Hitachi Vantara in 2019. On November 1, 2023, Hitachi spun off Hitachi Vantara LLC's digital solutions business into a new company, Hitachi Digital Services; Hitachi Vantara now focuses on its storage and hybrid cloud-centric data infrastructure services portfolio.

Hitachi Metals

Among other things, Hitachi Metals supplies materials for aircraft engines and fuselage components (e.g. landing gear), along with finished components for same and other aerospace applications. It also provides materials, components and tools for the automotive and electronics industries. Among the Hitachi Metals facilities is Hitachi Metal Yasugi Works or Tatara Works, one of the oldest furnaces in Japan, famously featured as a main backdrop in Princess Mononoke, a Japanese animation film set in the Muromachi period.

As of September 2020, Hitachi Metals is set to be divested as part of the long-term restructuring plan being executed by the group.

Hitachi Rail

Hitachi is a major rolling stock manufacturer.

Hitachi acquired Italian rolling stock manufacturer AnsaldoBreda in 2015, renaming it Hitachi Rail Italy

Hitachi Astemo

Astemo logo
Astemo logo

Hitachi Astemo, which stands for "Advanced Sustainable Technologies for Mobility", is a 67-33 joint venture between Hitachi and Honda, which merged their four auto parts affiliates and division, the latter's three keiretsu companies Showa Corporation, Keihin Corporation, and Nissin Kogyo, and the former's wholly owned Hitachi Automotive Systems, to be better equipped for the changing car market environment, frequently represented as CASE, for which they will integrate their assets to accelerate development of new technology and software.

Hitachi Astemo is considered a "mega supplier", as annual sales of the four predecessors combined stood at $17 billion, placing it as the second largest among the compatriot auto suppliers.

Other subsidiaries

Johnson Controls Hitachi
The logo of Johnson Controls - Hitachi Air Conditioning Company

The rest of the group companies include:

  • Hitachi Building Systems Co., Ltd.
  • Hitachi High-tech
  • Hitachi Construction Machinery
    • Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe)
  • GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (co-owned by General Electric)
  • Hitachi Global Life Solutions - Selling home appliances except audiovisual products.
  • Johnson Controls-Hitachi Air Conditioning - A/C business majority-owned by Johnson Controls since 2015.
  • Hitachi Digital Media Group - Selling electronic products including video projectors under its brand name.
  • Hitachi Plant Technologies - Engaging in the design, development, manufacture, sale, servicing, and execution of social and industrial infrastructure machinery, mechatronics, air-conditioning systems, industrial plants, and energy plant equipment in Asia and internationally.
  • Hitachi Communication Technologies America - Providing communications products and services for the telecommunications, cable TV, utility, enterprise, industrial and other markets.
  • Hitachi Solutions America - A consulting firm and systems integrator focusing primarily on Microsoft Dynamics. Hitachi Solutions America acquired Ignify, a Microsoft Dynamics Solution provider, in December 2015.
  • Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems - producing industrial automation systems and equipment.
  • Hitachi Transport System - providing one-stop logistics services.
  • Hitachi Energy

Philanthropy

In August 2011, it was announced that Hitachi would donate an electron microscope to each of five universities in Indonesia (the University of North Sumatra in Medan, the Indonesian Christian University in Jakarta, Padjadjaran University in Bandung, General Soedirman University in Purwokerto and Muhammadiyah University in Malang).

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