Hitachi : awarded $2.2 bil. deal to supply cars for Washington metro
March 17, 2021 at 09:57 am EDT
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Hitachi Ltd. said Wednesday it has been awarded a contract worth up to $2.2 billion to procure as many as 800 rail cars for Washington's metro service in the United States.
The first cars are to be delivered to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority in 2024, with local group company Hitachi Rail Washington to build a new factory in the U.S. capital to oversee their design and manufacture.
The new rolling stock will be equipped with the latest digital screens and electrical outlets, and also feature an environmentally-conscious design with an improved ventilation system.
The WMATA, which operates six metro lines in the Washington metropolitan area serving 91 stations, is one of the key public transport systems in the United States. There are currently 1,292 rail cars operating on its metro network.
Hitachi specializes in manufacturing and marketing of electronic and industrial equipments. Net sales (including intragroup) break down by family of products and services as follows:
- social infrastructure and industrial systems (24.7%): elevators, escalators, industrial facilities, railway systems, power generation units, etc. The group also provides engineering and construction of nuclear, hydroelectric, and thermal power plants services;
- information and telecommunications products and services (20.1%): systems integration, cloud computing, software, servers, hard disks, PCs, ATMs, data communication base stations, payment terminals, etc.;
- materials and components (16.6%): semi-conductor materials, printed circuit cards, cables, copper and forged steel products, magnetic materials, organic and inorganic chemical products, etc.;
- construction equipment (10%) : hydraulic excavators, wheel loaders, mining equipment, etc.;
- automotive systems (9.4%): powertrain systems, control systems, etc.;
- electronic products (9.2%): fiber-optic components, screen tubes, testing and measurement equipment, medical equipment, equipment for manufacturing semiconductors, etc.;
- household appliances (4.7%): heating and air conditioning equipments, refrigerators, washing machines, etc.;
- other (5.3%): mainly transport, financial and logistical services.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Japan (49.2%), Asia (21.3%), North America (12.7%), Europe (10.8%) and other (6%).
HITACHI, LTD. 
