Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd.

Company Overview

Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets motorcycles, heavy equipment, aerospace and defense equipment, rolling stock, ships, industrial robots, gas turbines, boilers and other industrial products. The company was incorporated in 1896 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

The company operates through the following divisions: precision machinery and robot, rolling stock, aerospace systems, powersports and engine, energy solution and marine engineering. The precision machinery and robot division is involved in the production and sale of industrial hydraulic products and industrial robots; the rolling stock division is engaged in the production and sale of rolling stock and snowplows; the aerospace systems division manufactures and markets aircraft.

The company has been involved in the robotics business for the last fifty years. It manufactures robots, controllers and other products such as simulation and vision systems. The company has 17 domestic production sites and 23 overseas production sites. It has direct business in robotics in many countries such as China, India, Thailand, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Dubai and others.

Financial Highlights (FY 2023)

Company's Business Segments

• Aerospace Systems : This segment surrounds the demand from the Ministry of Defense in Japan to accelerate continuously under the Ministry of Defense's policy of drastically strengthening defense capabilities.
• Rolling Stock : This segment includes the number of railway users who recovered owing to the easing of the infection by the COVID-19 pandemic and the resumed investments in rolling stock in Japan and overseas.
• Energy Solution & Marine Engineering : The business segment surrounds the Energy Solution & Marine Engineering segment, strongly influenced by the global trend toward achieving carbon neutrality.
• Precision Machinery & Robot : In the precision machinery segment, performance remained strong outside China's construction machinery market. Still, demand in the Chinese construction machinery market was sluggish owing to the impact of the prolonged real estate recession and other factors. In the robotics segment, the slow demand for robots for semiconductor manufacturing equipment bottomed out, and the market recovered from fiscal year 2024 while capturing new demands related to AI and green investment.
• Powersports & Engine : In the business segment surrounding the Powersports & Engine segment, the demand continued to be strong in the major markets, such as the U.S. and Europe. The market competition has intensified due to increased supplies from manufacturers after easing the supply chain disruptions in the previous fiscal year.
• Other : This segment is focused on three fields: A Safe and Secure Remotely Connected Society, Near-Future Mobility, and Energy and Environmental Solutions, which are making steady progress in creating solutions to social issues, such as medical and healthcare businesses, including surgical support robots and the commercialization of delivery robots.