Key Takeaways Operational restructuring and focus on high-margin products, services, and digital transformation are aimed at driving profitability and recurring revenues. Strategic investments in automation, healthcare innovation, and clean energy position the company for long-term global growth and reduced domestic market reliance.
Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. manufactures and sells general machinery worldwide. It operates through Mechatronics, Industrial Machinery, Logistics & Construction, and Energy & Lifelines segments. The Mechatronics segment offers gearmotors, gearboxes, motion control drives, motors and inverters, drive solutions, precision positioning equipment, control systems, motion components, cryocoolers, and cryopumps. The Industrial Machinery segment provides injection molding machines, transfer molding presses, laser systems, ion implanters, PET tracer production systems, cyclotrons for PET, PET tracer production systems, proton therapy systems vacuum coating equipment, forging presses, steel tube air forming, lifting magnets, non-destructive inspections, spinning machines, clean room systems, dust collectors, cast iron and steel rolls for hot rolling, surface grinding machines, coolant systems, and extrusion coating lines. The Logistics & Construction segment offers hydraulic excavators, road machinery, crawler cranes, material handling systems, parking systems, foundation machines, logistics systems, and forklifts. The Energy & Lifelines segment provides circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boilers, liquid air energy storage, electrostatic precipitators, evaporation and crystallization facilities, waste heat boilers, CFB scrubbers, flue gas denitrification systems, industrial wastewater treatment facilities, steam turbines, distillation technology and extractors, mixing vessels, and food and beverage manufacturing facilities. This segment also offers bubbling fluidized bed boilers, rotary kiln-type recycling facilities, ash handling systems, fluidized bed gasifiers, waste-to-energy plants, baghouses, digital services, water and sewage treatment systems, process pumps, reactor vessels, coke oven machines, and oils tankers. In addition, the company provides IT solutions and security services. The company was founded in 1888 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
