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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI)

JP

三菱重工業名古屋航空宇宙システム製作所 飛島工場

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is a Japanese multinational engineering and electronics corporation and a key player in the space industry. As a launch service provider, MHI produces the H-IIA and H3 launch vehicles, offering services to organizations like JAXA, the UAE Space Agency, and Eutelsat. MHI is also involved in the International Space Station program, contributing equipment and technologies and partnering with companies like Sierra Space for future space station development.

commercialFounded 1884
History · 3 eventsJun 1, 1964 · Mitsubishi Heavy Industries splits into three companies (1950) and re-merges to reform Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (1964)
Japan
www.mhi.com/
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Organization history

Identity changes, mergers, acquisitions, splits, and transferred business lines.

3 events

  1. Jun 1, 1964Identity Change

    Mitsubishi Heavy Industries splits into three companies (1950) and re-merges to reform Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (1964)

    Source
    Predecessor
    Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI)
    Successor
    Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI)
    Event context

    Following the post-WWII dissolution of the Mitsubishi zaibatsu, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was split in January 1950 into three regional companies: West Japan Heavy Industries (Nagasaki), Central Japan Heavy Industries (Kobe), and East Japan Heavy Industries (Yokohama). These were renamed in 1952 to Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering, Shin-Mitsubishi Jukogyo, and Mitsubishi Nippon Heavy Industries respectively. In 1964, the three were re-merged (into Shin-Mitsubishi Jukogyo, which took the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries name) to reform the modern Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. -- the entity now responsible for Japan's H-II/H3 launch vehicle production and F-2/F-35 final assembly. Modeled as a same-lineage identity change on the existing MHI org row; the three intermediate 1950-1964 companies are not separately modeled.

  2. Jun 1, 1964Merger

    Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering and Mitsubishi Nippon Heavy Industries remerge into Shin-Mitsubishi Jukogyo, reforming Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

    Source
    Predecessor
    Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI)
    Predecessor
    Mitsubishi Nippon Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Predecessor
    Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Successor
    Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI)

    The three 1950 successor companies recombined in 1964; Shin-Mitsubishi Jukogyo (the continuing legal entity) absorbed the other two and was renamed Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

  3. Jan 12, 1950Split

    Mitsubishi Heavy Industries split into three companies under Allied zaibatsu dissolution

    Source
    Predecessor
    Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI)
    Successor
    Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI)
    Successor
    Mitsubishi Nippon Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Successor
    Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Event context

    Post-WWII Allied occupation zaibatsu-dissolution policy forced MHI to split into West Japan Heavy Industries (later Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering), Central Japan Heavy Industries (later Shin-Mitsubishi Jukogyo - continuing entity), and East Japan Heavy Industries (later Mitsubishi Nippon Heavy Industries). All three renamed 1952-05-07.

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