Sumitomo Heavy Industries

Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Native name
 住友重機械工業株式会社
Public KK
Traded as TYO: 6302
Nikkei 225 Component
Industry Machinery
Founded (November 20, 1888 (1888-11-20))
Headquarters ThinkPark Tower, 2-1-1 Osaki, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 141-6025 Japan
Area served
 Global
Key people
 Shunsuke Betsukawa
(President and CEO)
Products
Revenue

Increase $ 6.02 billion (FY 2014)

(¥ 615.2 billion) (FY 2014)

Increase $ 175.3 million (FY 2014)

(¥ 17.89 billion) (FY 2014)
Number of employees
 17,941 (consolidated as of March 31, 2014)
Website Sumitomo Heavy Industries
Footnotes / references
[1][2]

Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. (住友重機械工業株式会社 Sumitomo Jūkikai Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha) (SHI) is an integrated manufacturer of industrial machinery, automatic weaponry, ships, bridges and steel structure, equipment for environmental protection, including recycling, power transmission equipment, plastic molding machines, laser processing systems, particle accelerators, material handling systems, cancer diagnostic and treatment equipment and others.

History

In 1888, a company was formed to provide equipment repair services to the Besshi copper mine. Almost 50 years later, in 1934, the company incorporated as Sumitomo Machinery Co., Ltd. to manufacture machinery for the steel and transportation industries in support of that period of rapid economic growth.

In 1969, Sumitomo Machinery Co., Ltd. merged with Uraga Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. to create Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. The company continues to innovate and expand to meet the demands of the new market frontiers.[3] Today, Sumitomo Heavy Industries manufactures injection molding machines, laser systems, semiconductor machinery and liquid crystal production machinery.

In 1979, the company famously built the Seawise Giant, an Ultra Large Crude Carrier (ULCC) supertanker; the longest ship ever built.

Products

References

  1. ↑ "Corporate Profile". Retrieved August 6, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Sumitomo Heavy Industries Financial Statements". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved August 6, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Sumitomo Heavy Industries in Russia". Retrieved 2014-03-01.

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, June 17, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.