Stepping up the pace of its global expansion, Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd. ("Hitachi Plant Technologies") is in the process of...

itachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT / TSE:6501) today announced its consolidated financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2011, ended September 30, 2011.

Hitachi, Ltd. today announced the decision of the Hitachi Group to provide support with a total value of 30 million yen (U.S. dollars 375,000*) to aid the victims of the flooding in Thailand, and to assist in recovery efforts in the affected regions.

Hitachi Systems, Ltd. (President and CEO: Naoya Takahashi, Head Office: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, "Hitachi Systems") today launched "GNEXT", a global IT Service Brand that offers one-stop support for the many business challenges faced by its customers' expansion of their global business operations, focusing on China and Southeast Asia region, with the aim to strengthen and expand its global business. Accordingly, a "GNEXT contact window" for customers in the Global Business Group was established on October 7.

Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT / TSE:6501, “Hitachi”) today announced that Hitachi Elevator Asia Pte. Ltd. (Managing Director: Yusuke Takahashi), which oversees the Hitachi Group's elevator and escalator business in the Southeast Asia, India, and Middle East regions, in collaboration with Hitachi Lift India Pvt. Ltd. (Managing Director: Osamu Kubo), an elevator and escalator sales and service company in India, have secured a batch order for 19 elevators from Aria Hotels and Consultancy Services Pvt. Ltd. (Chairman and Managing Director: Sushil Gupta), which builds and operates luxury hotels in India.

Hitachi, Ltd. (President: Hiroaki Nakanishi, NYSE: HIT / TSE: 6501, “Hitachi”) and Hi-Rel Electronics Pvt. Ltd. (Managing Director: Piyush Shah, “Hi-Rel”) today announced closing of a transaction under which Hitachi has made a majority equity investment in Hi-Rel, in a move to strengthen Hitachi’s and Hi-Rel’s power electronics business in India.

itachi, Ltd. (President: Hiroaki Nakanishi, NYSE: HIT / TSE: 6501, “Hitachi”) and SFO Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a NeST Group Company (Managing Director: N. Jehangir, “SFO Technologies”), today announced that they have agreed to establish a joint venture in the field of advanced control systems for thermal power plants.

Hitachi Asia Ltd. today announced that it will showcase its advanced Social Infrastructure Solutions at the 15th Electric, Power & Renewable Energy Indonesia 2011.

itachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd. (Hitachi-GE) today announced that it has started an international human resource training program jointly with the Tokyo Institute of Technology (TITECH) in the field of nuclear power, energy and the environment, mainly for Southeast Asia. Under this program, Hitachi-GE and TITECH today established a course at the Electric Power University (EPU) in Vietnam to which their lecturers are dispatched.

Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT / TSE:6501, "Hitachi") today announced that it has acquired an additional 64% of issued shares for Hi Eles Industrial Corporation ("Hi Eles"), its sales agent for elevators and escalators in the Republic of the Philippines ("the Philippines"), and has renamed the company Hitachi Elevator Philippines Corporation.