Hirata Corporation announced that it have recently been awarded a large-scale purchase order. Hirata has been an active player in the global market of automotive, semiconductor, and other automatic labor-saving equipment businesses by providing engineering, manufacturing and sales of various types of production equipment associated with engines, transmissions, semiconductor wafer transfer, OLED and so on. Notably, in automobile-related production equipment business, a full-scale operation was launched for EV-related production equipment in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2017.

Against this backdrop, Hirata received a large-scale order for EV-related production equipment. The expected value of the order is over JPY 8 billion including the portion to be handled by US operation. The order received is for assembly lines for EV drive units (Electric Drive Unit).