For more than 50 years, Hitachi has had a strong presence in the Americas, particularly in the United States, helping to introduce new, innovative technologies, services and products that benefit society.Hitachi opened its first office in the United States in 1959 with a staff of six. Today, Hitachi’s presence in North America is comprised of a highly diversified group of 108 businesses with over 19,000 employees. Hitachi products, services and technologies play a part in nearly every facet of modern life. The purpose of this brochure is to acquaint you with the breadth of expertise within the Hitachi Group and the tremendous range of products and services that we design, manufacture and distribute.
Hitachi’s current focus is on the Social Innovation Business, a field that fuses IT technologies with solutions to support social infrastructure. To that end, Hitachi has developed – and continues to develop – a broad range of products and technologies that support social infrastructure projects in the areas of power, transportation and clean water, uniquely positioning us to be a leader in these areas. Moreover, by offering social infrastructure solutions that take advantage of the latest technologies, research and products, Hitachi is helping to improve the quality of life for people around the world and create a more sustainable society.
As regions throughout the Americas look to replace older technologies and infrastructures with new ones, Hitachi has positioned itself to take advantage of these new opportunities. Particularly promising areas, where Hitachi has already enjoyed a measure of success, include power generation, hybrid and highspeed rail transportation and technologies related to renewable energy, electric vehicles and the transition to the smart grid.
At Hitachi, we believe it is our duty to provide our customers and society with innovative solutions that benefit every facet of our changing society. That is why we are working hard to develop new, reliable, efficient and environmentally conscious technologies and products that will improve not only customers’ bottom lines but improve their lives and communities as well. Hitachi is much more than an electronics manufacturer. We are a global company with a 100-plus-year history in contributing to making our society a better place to live, while being committed to environmental responsibility.
Since its early beginnings over 100 years ago, Hitachi’s corporate credo has been “contributing to society through the development of superior, original technology and products.” Over the years, the mission to contribute to society through technological innovation has led Hitachi to develop a host of sustainable solutions that address a wide range of infrastructure challenges – such as climate change and the need for more efficient forms of transportation – that impact our lives and economic activities. Hitachi is constantly evolving, with a vision of the advanced technologies that society will need. This vision has led Hitachi to focus on the Social Innovation Business.
Hitachi’s Social Innovation Business is made up of information and telecommunications systems; power systems; industrial, transportation and urban development systems; and the sophisticated materials and key devices that underpin and support them. Individually and together, these systems provide advanced social infrastructure solutions to areas where they are most needed around the globe.
Being a leader in the Social Innovation Business, however, is about more than supplying advanced social infrastructure systems enhanced by IT. It means using the combined experience and knowledge of Hitachi’s over 913 consolidated subsidiary companies and thousands of employees to develop reliable products, services and management systems that create value and contribute to customers’ and society’s greater well being. It means developing smart grids and environment-conscious data centers. It means developing safer nuclear power generation plants and highly efficient thermal power generation systems that will have less environmental impact. It means building more efficient railway systems reducing the carbon footprint.
To Hitachi, being in the Social Innovation Business means focusing not only on creating sustainable solutions to meet today’s social infrastructure needs. It means working closely with customers and partners, combining intellectual capital, to develop products and services that are in demand. It means refining technologies and developing new ones to meet tomorrow’s challenges, creating value that will last for future generations. It means constantly bringing new products to the market that have the high level of quality and reliability people have come to expect from Hitachi. The goal of Hitachi’s Social Innovation Business: to drive innovation and “Inspire the Next.”
