History
In anticipation of the globalization of the steel market, the steel production machinery divisions of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Hitachi were combined in the year 2000 to create Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery, establishing a worldwide leading company for steel production machinery.
This union resulted in a powerful synergistic fusion of the sophisticated design techniques, manufacturing technologies and human resources that had been cultivated at both companies throughout their long histories. This synergy has been combined with a broad product line-up that allows us to provide and coordinate every aspect of a plant. This has made us an ever-evolving company occupying a wholly unique position in the worldwide steel production machinery market.
| October 2000 | MHI-Hitachi Metals Machinery, Inc. established. |
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| October 2001 | Domestic business activities integrated and overseas business activities strengthened. |
| November 2001 | Company headquarters moved. |
| March 2002 | Capitalization increased. |
| April 2003 | Business locations consolidated (from three locations to two). Assembly work systems integrated. Newly constructed IT infrastructure launched. Advanced 3-D CAD systems launched. Fusion of technologies accelerated. |
| May 2003 | Second increase in capitalization |
| July 2003 | Shanghai office(China) opened. |
| October 2003 | Total value of orders received as a joint venture reaches 100 billion yen. |
| March 2004 | PC mill production exceeds 100 stands. |
| April 2004 | Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery USA, Inc. established. |
| January 2005 | SES-Continuous Casting Engineering, Ltd. becomes a subsidiary. |
| January 2005 | HC mill production exceeds 400 stands. |
| November 2005 | New Gencoat, Inc. (commonly known as GFG) acquired (in conjunction with Mitsubishi Corp.). |
| March 2006 | Changzhou Baoling Heavy Machinery Co., Ltd. acquired and capital increased (in conjunction with Mitsubishi Corporation). |
| August 2006 | Head office relocated. |
| May 2007 | Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery (Shanghai), Inc. established. |
| February 2010 | Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery South Asia Private Ltd. established. |
| April 2011 | HC mill production exceeds 500 stands. |
