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Hitachi Receives Orders for 160 Elevators, Escalators, Moving Sidewalks and Related Systems for the Hong Kong West Kowloon Station Complex

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木曜日, 6月 29, 2023

TOKYO, June 29, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced that Hitachi Elevator Engineering Company (Hong Kong) Limited ("Hitachi Elevator Engineering (Hong Kong)"), a sales and service company for the elevators and escalators of Hitachi, which operates in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ("Hong Kong") of the People's Republic of China ("China"), have received an order for total 160 elevators, escalators and moving side walks from a Hong Kong developer, Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited for the Hong Kong West Kowloon Station complex.

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  • TOKYO, June 29, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced that Hitachi Elevator Engineering Company (Hong Kong) Limited ("Hitachi Elevator Engineering (Hong Kong)"), a sales and service company for the elevators and escalators of Hitachi, which operates in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ("Hong Kong") of the People's Republic of China ("China"), have received an order for total 160 elevators, escalators and moving side walks from a Hong Kong developer, Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited for the Hong Kong West Kowloon Station complex.
  • Hong Kong West Kowloon Station opened in 2018 as a terminus for the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong High Speed Rail Link, which connects Hong Kong with cities in mainland China.
  • It also boasts excellent access to Hong Kong International Airport and the Hong Kong urban district, which is located in a large-scale development area directly connected to West Kowloon Station in Hong Kong.
  • In 1966, Hitachi established Hitachi Elevator Engineering (Hong Kong) as its first overseas group company in the building systems business.

Hitachi Energy wins order for first subsea electricity interconnection between France and Spain

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金曜日, 6月 16, 2023

Combined, the links will efficiently supply a total of 2,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity at 400 kilovolts (kV) over 400 kilometers (km).

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  • Combined, the links will efficiently supply a total of 2,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity at 400 kilovolts (kV) over 400 kilometers (km).
  • The resulting infrastructure doubled the interconnection capacity between France and Spain from 1,400 MW to 2,800 MW today.
  • HVDC Light is a voltage source converter technology developed by Hitachi Energy, which was launched over 25 years ago.
  • Hitachi Energy pioneered commercial HVDC technology almost 70 years ago and has delivered more than half of the world's HVDC projects.

Hitachi launches "Hitachi Application Reliability Centers Service" in Japan to enable cloud-native operations to drive both agility and reliability

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木曜日, 6月 8, 2023

Hitachi will work with Hitachi Vantara to free customers' operations teams from siloed and complicated cloud workloads, improve overall reliability, and speed up release cycles of their cloud applications.

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  • Hitachi will work with Hitachi Vantara to free customers' operations teams from siloed and complicated cloud workloads, improve overall reliability, and speed up release cycles of their cloud applications.
  • It will also address various needs for cloud utilization, including modernization and multi-cloud operations.
  • This will fundamentally change cloud operations and contribute to the realization of digital transformation (DX) for customers.
  • It aims to make IT operations more autonomous by applying the analysis results of machine learning and analysis algorithms to IT operations.

Hitachi Enhances Diversity, Equity and Inclusion by Supporting LGBTQIA+ Community

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木曜日, 5月 25, 2023

This year, Hitachi unveiled a new Hitachi Pride Logo celebrating Pride Month in June, to demonstrate the company's ongoing support for the LGBTQIA+(1) community.

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  • This year, Hitachi unveiled a new Hitachi Pride Logo celebrating Pride Month in June, to demonstrate the company's ongoing support for the LGBTQIA+(1) community.
  • Hitachi recognizes all diversity dimensions, such as background, age, gender, sexuality, family status, disability, race, nationality, ethnicity, and religion, as sources of value.
  • For example, in Japan, Hitachi considers same-sex partners as family members, and applies various work, vacation, and benefit programs equally.
  • Additionally, Hitachi Group companies including Hitachi Vantara and Hitachi Energy are planning various initiatives, including employee exchange events and webinars globally.

Hitachi: Commencement of Joint Studies on Business Initiatives Towards the Development of Sustainable Finance

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木曜日, 5月 25, 2023

In this manner, we will conduct studies jointly towards formal launch of the services in the future.

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  • In this manner, we will conduct studies jointly towards formal launch of the services in the future.
  • ESG investment has been expanding rapidly in recent years against the backdrop of a growing interest in ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance).
  • This will support the expanding ESG investment and market and contribute to the development of a healthy market.
  • The association will verify the usefulness of the platform and promote joint examinations towards the formal launch of the services.

Transition to a new structure for the domestic power grids business toward the early realization of a carbon-neutral society and resilient electricity network in Japan, co-creating with customers new values

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火曜日, 5月 23, 2023

Through the integration of the domestic power grids business and Hitachi Energy, Hitachi will provide customer with new values to realize a carbon-neutral society by leveraging Hitachi Energy's world-class technologies with Hitachi's digital technology including Lumada and the extensive experience from our domestic track record.

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  • Through the integration of the domestic power grids business and Hitachi Energy, Hitachi will provide customer with new values to realize a carbon-neutral society by leveraging Hitachi Energy's world-class technologies with Hitachi's digital technology including Lumada and the extensive experience from our domestic track record.
  • a. World-recognized value in power grids equipment such as high-voltage products including gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) portfolio and transformers, all supporting low environmental impact, optimization of maintenance cycles and digitalization.
  • Continue to provide high-quality services including front-end engineering, quality control, and maintenance backed by years of experience in Japan together with new digital solutions.
  • b. Aiming to realize the globalization of our business platform having aligned with customers in Japan and providing them with the value created in the global market.

Hitachi Vantara Secures the State of Arizona's Critical Water Resources with Modern Data Management and Analytics

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火曜日, 5月 23, 2023

Centralized data from 330,000 distributed water resources leads to better insights, improving sustainable water use for the state's 7 million residents

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  • Centralized data from 330,000 distributed water resources leads to better insights, improving sustainable water use for the state's 7 million residents
    SANTA CLARA, CA, May 23, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - Hitachi Vantara, the modern infrastructure, data management and digital solutions subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced that the Arizona Department of Water Resources has selected Hitachi Vantara's Pentaho Data Catalog to centralize, categorize, sort and analyze trusted data across 330,000 distributed water resources in the state.
  • By analyzing data against records of geolocation coordinates, depth to water and uses, the agency is better equipped to establish the adjudication of water rights with trusted, accurate data.
  • Considering the ongoing drought and reduced water supply from the Colorado River, having a data-driven approach to water management is absolutely crucial.
  • It is saving us so much time," said Lisa Williams, manager, Office of Enterprise Data Management at the State of Arizona's Department of Water Resources.

Hitachi Astemo: Outcome of Investigation into Inappropriate Conduct Relating to Certain Products and Measures to Prevent Recurrence

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金曜日, 5月 19, 2023

* News Release dated December 22, 2021: "Notice of Inappropriate Conduct for Certain Products, including Unperformed Periodic Tests": www.hitachi.com/New/cnews/month/2021/12/211222.pdf

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  • * News Release dated December 22, 2021: "Notice of Inappropriate Conduct for Certain Products, including Unperformed Periodic Tests": www.hitachi.com/New/cnews/month/2021/12/211222.pdf
    The investigation in respect of the inappropriate conduct and some of its similar incidents at our Yamanashi Plant and Fukushima Plant was conducted by a special investigation committee.
  • As a result of identifying the issues, we recognized that our compliance culture and management supervision system were inadequate for the duration of the conduct.
  • Concurrent with the investigations, we carried out a detailed safety analysis, determining that all products encompassed by the inappropriate conduct functioned properly within the required performance margin, with no evidence of reduced safety.
  • In addition, we have disclosed all known issues to our customers and have not identified any safety concerns or legal violations.

Hitachi and Toshiba win order to build high speed trains for Taiwan at 124 billion Japanese Yen

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金曜日, 5月 19, 2023

TOKYO, May 19, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - Hitachi Toshiba Supreme Consortium (HTSC) consisting of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), Toshiba Corporation (TSE: 6502) and Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation has been awarded the order to build 12 sets of new generation high speed trains (144 cars) by Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation (THSRC).

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  • TOKYO, May 19, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - Hitachi Toshiba Supreme Consortium (HTSC) consisting of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), Toshiba Corporation (TSE: 6502) and Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation has been awarded the order to build 12 sets of new generation high speed trains (144 cars) by Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation (THSRC).
  • THSRC started operation of high speed trains in 2007 between Taipei and Kaohsiung introducing Japanese Shinkansen system.
  • In Taiwan, many people are using the reliable high speed railway adopting the technologies of Japanese Shinkansen which has proved unparalleled safety and reliability.
  • We expect that more people select environmentally friendly high speed railway as a result of introducing new rolling stock.

Hitachi Astemo develops autonomous driving technology that enables cooperative behavior on narrow roads

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木曜日, 5月 18, 2023

TOKYO, May 18, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - Hitachi Astemo, Ltd. has developed an autonomous driving technology that help to safely and smoothly pass by oncoming vehicles on narrow roads and other situations by utilizing 3D sensing results of the surrounding vehicle environment.

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  • TOKYO, May 18, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - Hitachi Astemo, Ltd. has developed an autonomous driving technology that help to safely and smoothly pass by oncoming vehicles on narrow roads and other situations by utilizing 3D sensing results of the surrounding vehicle environment.
  • Hitachi Astemo aims to strengthen its cost competitiveness through the use of 3D sensing data obtained from new stereo cameras with improved cost benefits.
  • By collaborating with the new stereo camera, it will be possible to further enhance the cost competitiveness of autonomous driving technology that enables cooperative behavior in narrow roads.
  • Hitachi Astemo's autonomous driving technology using cooperative behavior in narrow roads and the new stereo camera will be introduced at the "Automotive Engineering Exposition 2023 Yokohama" (booth number: 148) held at Pacifico Yokohama from May 23.