Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (三菱重工業株式会社, Mitsubishi Jūkōgyō Kabushiki-kaisha) (informally MHI) is a multinational engineering, electrical equipment and electronics company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
In 1857, at the request of the Tokugawa Shogunate, a group of Dutch engineers began work on the Nagasaki Yotetsusho, a modern, western-style foundry and shipyard near the Dutch settlement of Dejima, at Nagasaki. Renamed Nagasaki Seitetsusho in 1860, it was completed in 1861. Following the Meiji restoration of 1868, the shipyard was placed under control of the new Meiji government, and the first dry dock was completed in 1879.
As the leading company of the Japan's aerospace industry, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has been engaged in the development and production of a wide variety of aerospace products and thus contributed to the technological advancement of Japan.
The nuclear business of MHI operates facilities Kobe, Yokohama, Kanagawa,Takasago, Hyogo. It also operates a nuclear fuel manufacturing plant in Tōkai, Ibaraki which processes 440 Metric tons of Uranium per year.
MHI has shipbuilding facilities in Nagasaki, Kobe and Shimonoseki, Japan.
MHI's products include:
- Aerospace systems
- Rockets and spacecraft
Major customers of MHI include:
- Boeing
- MTR
- SBS Transit
- Singapore Changi Airport
- Washington Dulles International Airport
- Rolls-Royce
- PKN Orlen
