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Hitachi, Ltd. Annual Report 2012 23
Financial Section/
Corporate Data
Management Structure
Research and Development/
Intellectual Property
Financial HighlightsTo Our Shareholders Segment Information
쎲 Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
In the fi scal year under review, the company’s performance
was affected by the Chinese government’s moves to tighten
monetary conditions, which placed downward pressure on
hydraulic excavator sales. This was more than offset, how-
ever, by reconstruction demand in Japan, and an increase of
infrastructure development projects in emerging countries in
Southeast Asia as well as solid mining machinery trends in
such resource producing countries as Indonesia and
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50 6
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(Billions of yen) (%)
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Segment Profit/
Percentage of Revenues
쏋 Segment profit 쎲 Percentage of revenues
3.0
7.9
6.5
(Millions of yen)
FY2011 FY2010 FY2009
Revenues .................................................................... ¥ 798,785 ¥ 751,387 ¥583,636
Segment profi t ............................................................. 63,129 49,192 17,649
Capital investment (Property, plant and equipment) ..... 65,070 36,557 32,851
Depreciation (Property, plant and equipment) ............... 35,041 35,236 39,152
R&D expenditure ......................................................... 16,471 15,888 15,451
Assets ......................................................................... 1,140,332 1,000,793 927,482
Number of employees ................................................. 20,571 19,218 19,063
Australia. As a result, sales increased compared with the
previous year.
On the earnings front, profi t climbed sharply year over
year. Despite the impact of the strong yen, the surge in
earnings was largely attributable to the upswing in sales,
boost in sales prices and successful efforts to curtail costs.
Hitachi Construction Machinery’s One of the World’s Largest Hydraulic
Excavators and Mining Dump Truck
Hitachi Construction Machinery developed the ultra-large 800-tonne class EX8000,
the largest mining hydraulic excavator in its class in the world. In recent years, the
company has worked to upgrade and expand its product lineup with the release of
Hitachi-made AC-drive dump trucks. Through these and other initiatives, Hitachi
Construction Machinery is working to provide optimal products, parts and post-pur-
chase services to meet its customers’ frontline mining needs.
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Hitachi Construction Machinery’s Double-Front Work Machine
Under contract from New Energy and Industrial Technology
Development Organization (NEDO), Hitachi Construction Machinery
developed “ASTACO NEO,” a double-front work machine. A single
operator controls the right and left levers which manipulate the
main and support arms, respectively. The main arm grasps con-
crete cinders and reinforced steel bars while the left arm is used to
cut away debris. These simultaneous operations in a single unit
enhance effi ciency signifi cantly speeding dismantling and separat-
ing operations. ASTACO NEO was particularly useful in areas strick-
en by the recent earthquake disaster.