MHI to Establish Subsidiary to Handle Industrial Machinery Business
Including Material Handling Systems and Rubber & Tire Machinery
-- Absorption-type Company Split Agreement Signed Today --

Specifically, the pertinent businesses of MHI's Industrial Machinery Business, Technology & Solutions Division, will be succeeded by MEC, a wholly-owned MHI subsidiary, through a company split. At the same time, Hiroshima Ryoju Engineering Co., Ltd., and Ryosen Engineers Co., Ltd. will merge with MEC. The new company will locate its head office in Nishi-ku, Hiroshima City, and will mainly handle marketing, design, manufacturing, installation and after-sale services for machineries such as material handling systems, rubber & tire machinery, upstream equipment in iron-making and chemical industry-use machinery. The new company will be capitalized at 1,000 million yen. Kazuo Iida, currently president of Ryosen Engineering will serve as the president of the new company.

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.