Hitachi Zosen to double production

摘要

In 2009, two-stroke marine engine builder Hitachi Zosen Diesel & Engineering Co is due to open an additional production facility, developed at a cost of ￥7 billion (US$68 million). Hitachi Zosen Diesel & Engineering, which currently turns out around 50 main engines under licence per year from its Ariake works, is currently building at full capacity but, when its new production facility opens in March 2009, it will double production capacity overnight. This year, HZ D&E expects to turn out engines equivalent to just under 1.7 million bhp, but this is expected to rise to 2 million bhp by 2010, and to edge upwards to around 2.1million bhp by 2012. Since becoming the first Japanese engine builder to complete a MAN Diesel electronically-controlled diesel engine in December 2003 (an ME50-C), Hitachi has continued to broaden the range of engines it builds, with the manufacture and completion of the first 65ME-C and 70ME-C engines.