Mitsubishi Corporation

Machinery Group

The Machinery Group, which operates in various countries around the world, has connections with a wide range of industries, customers, manufacturers and partners, and has built up an extensive network. The Group makes use of these advantages, as well as its expertise in each business domain, to grasp market and customer needs and keep up with changes in the business environment.

The Machinery Group handles a wide range of machinery in four key domains: industrial machinery, shipping, defense and aerospace, and motor vehicles. We handle machine tools, agricultural machinery, construction and mining equipment, elevators and escalators, ships, space-related equipment, automobiles, and other businesses.

Leveraging our expertise and extensive global networks in these fields, connecting us with customers, manufacturers, and partners, we are responding to changes in the business environment and developing our operations all over the world.

Strategy

Through business management, we continue to strengthen our existing operations as we forge longer value chains spanning sales to finance and distribution; but at the same time, we are looking to create the kinds of new businesses that will develop into future earnings pillars for MC.

Organizational Structure

Strategic fields

Industrial Machinery Business Division

  • Sales and maintenance business for elevators and escalators
  • Sales of machine tools, agricultural machinery, construction equipment and mining equipment
  • Rental of machinery
MC conducts rental services and sales centered on construction and industrial machinery through rental services provider Nikken Corporation.

Ship & Aerospace Division

  • Transactions in ships, LNG/LPG carriers, special purpose ships for offshore energy exploration, etc.; finance; ship owning and management business
  • Sales of defense-related equipment
  • Data processing and sales of satellite imagery
With MC also having an equity interest, this state-of-the-art "Sayaendo" type LNG carrier joined the fleet in 2014 (photograph supplied by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.) (above)
High Resolution Imagery Satellite, GeoEye-1 (right) © DigitalGlobe, Inc.

Automotive Business Division

  • Overseas local production and sales business
  • Overseas automobile finance, after-sales service and other related business
  • Automobile exports (built-up vehicles, assembly and spare parts)
Contributing to the realization of a sustainable society by promoting environmentally friendly electric vehicles such as the Outlander PHEV.

Isuzu Business Division

  • Overseas local production and sales business
  • Overseas automobile finance, after-sales service and other related business
  • Automobile exports (built-up vehicles, assembly and spare parts)
The ISUZU D-MAX pick-up truck, one of the core products of our motor-vehicle business in Thailand.

Business Investments

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