In Canada, Hitachi offers a broad range of products and provides services and solutions to meet the specific needs of its Canadian customers. Market sectors served include: information systems, electronic devices, power systems, industrial systems, automotive products, medical and healthcare products, home improvement and consumer products.
Hitachi Groups companies with a strong Canadian presence include Clarion Canada, Hitachi Construction Truck Manufacturing, Ltd., Hitachi Data Systems- Toronto, Hitachi High-Technologies Canada, Inc., Hitachi Kokusai Electric Canada, Ltd. and Hitachi Power Tools (Canada). Hitachi also owns several Canada-based companies, Hitachi Canada Ltd., Hitachi Canadian Industries Ltd., Hitachi ID Systems, Inc., and Maxell Canada.
Hitachi Canada Ltd., headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, with offices in Calgary, Alberta, provides various thermal, hydro and nuclear power systems (including steam turbines, gas turbines, generators, power boilers, hydro turbines, AQCS packages and carbon capture systems), distributed control system (DCS) equipment and solutions, Smart Grid/Smart City solutions and industrial equipment (including large compressors and pumps) to Canadian customers.
Hitachi has over 40 years of experience providing equipment to the power generation industry in Canada. This includes over 40 large steam, gas and hydro turbines with an installed capacity of over 8,000 MW and Canada’s first two super-critical power boilers.
Hitachi Canada Ltd. provides complete maintenance services for both Hitachi supplied and other OEM equipment through its global service network. The company’s team of project managers and engineers is supported by a network of service facilities and partners, enabling it to provide complete turnkey solutions, including longterm maintenance and technical support agreements.
Hitachi is committed to developing clean coal technologies and assisting customers to reduce their environmental impact (including CO2 emissions) and as such can offer advanced super-critical power boilers, steam turbine generator sets, FGDs, SCRs, CCS systems, etc. for new plants or retrofit applications in order to meet existing and future generation requirements and environmental legislation.
Leveraging Hitachi’s 40 years of dedicated experience in information and control systems technology and projects, Hitachi Canada Ltd. offers its Canadian customers G-HIACS DCS (distributed control system) hardware and software development tools. The G-HIACS 
SAFE (pronounced “nu-SAFE”) Functional Safety Controller is the latest generation HIACS DCS developed by Hitachi’s Information and Control System Company (Omika Works). TÜV Rheinland has certified the SAFE DCS as compliant with the requirements of IEC 61508 SIL (Safety Integrity Level) 2 Functional Safety, CSA/UL electrical safety and IEC 61000 electromagnetic compatibility (EMC).
Hitachi Canadian Industries Ltd. (HCI) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. based in Saskatchewan, Canada. HCI is part of the Hitachi Power Systems Group and has 250 employees. Among its many services, HCI provides custom fabrication and welding (wind towers, pressure vessels, heat exchangers and large diameter pipe), custom machining and after-sales services (including spare parts manufacturing) to customers in the energy industry.
Hitachi ID Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of identity and access management solutions. Hitachi ID software helps almost 1000 organizations with over 12 million combined users meet security, internal control, regulatory compliance, IT cost reduction and user service objectives. Hitachi ID Management Suite products manage identities, entitlements and authentication factors across both onpremise and SaaS applications in the cloud.
Industry analyst Ovum Consulting recently recognized Hitachi ID Systems as an enterprise identity and access management powerhouse, citing the company’s robust technology and exemplary customer support. Ovum “believes that Hitachi ID’s focus on reducing the administrative and help desk burden and the company’s focus on bottom-up IAM reflects the way in which organizations operate.”
