Next stop: UK

摘要

This is an important time for Japanese industrial giant Hitachi in the UK. Probably best known as a manufacturer of consumer electronics, the company is embarking on a series of strategies that will make it a major part of the UK engineering landscape. Last year, the company announced that it would locate the global headquarters of its rail business in the UK, with a British managing director, Alistair Dormer, and manufacturing facilities to fill contracts all over the world. This was in addition to the previous announcement that the company was to acquire Horizon Nuclear Energy from founders RWE and E.ON and would seek approval to build its own advanced boiling water reactor (ABWR) designs at both Oldbury in Gloucestershire and Wylfa in Wales; a total of 6,000MWe of nuclear generating capacity.