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TOSHIBA ANNUAL REPORT 1999
Page
11.
Comprehensive production con-
trol system supplied to a major
Japanese beer maker.
As an experienced provider of Network
Protection Equipment, a key element of
optical ring networks, the company is
positioned to expand its business and
record more successes in the years ahead.
As Toshiba continues its participation
in projects for Japan’s National Space
Development Agency (NASDA), it is ex-
panding business to the commercial sec-
tor. The company is aggressively working
for orders for satellites for the SkyBridge
Project. Initiated by Alcatel Alsthom,
France’s leading communications equip-
ment manufacturer, SkyBridge aims to
build a high-speed multimedia communi-
cations network using low-earth orbiting
satellites by 2001.
As a new business field, we are devel-
oping infrastructure systems and termi-
nal equipment for a multi-channel,
multimedia broadcasting format using
the 2.6 gigahertz, S-band frequency. This
will deliver high-speed, high-quality
transmissions to mobile users, whether in
vehicles equipped with an antenna or on
foot with a portable terminal. Mobile
Broadcasting Corporation, a Toshiba-led
entity that plans to offer services through-
out Japan had already attracted equity
participation from 33 leading companies
as of April 1999, including Toyota Motor
Corporation, Fujitsu Limited, Nippon
Television Network Corporation and
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
Yet another area of focus is environ-
ment-related businesses. Activities here
include recycling chloride-based plastics
to extract fuel oil, home appliances recy-
cling and advanced waste treatment by
thermal decomposition and gasification.
As the Information and Industrial
Systems & Services Company faces the
realities of today’s global markets and
mega-competition, it is undertaking an
extensive review of its business struc-
ture—and taking actions to assure its
vitality. In April 99, it transferred its
domestic ATM business to Oki Electric
Industry Co., Ltd. It has also established a
joint venture with the Japanese arm of
France’s Schneider Electric S.A. to fortify
the development, manufacture, sales and
maintenance of low-voltage power distri-
bution and control equipment.
casting. The company will support cus-
tomers in achieving business reforms
through the adoption of supply chain
management, and with its cumulative
expertise gained through the supply of
diverse plant systems, and sales, logistics,
inventory control and other front-end
systems. Leveraging its highly diverse
experience enables the company to
deliver high value-added services across
the range of operations.
In all it does, whether providing com-
prehensive consultation on solutions or
integrating systems to support sales,
maintenance or management, the com-
pany is single-minded in its pursuit of to-
tal customer satisfaction.
Increasing demand for global data com-
munications is spurring projects to lay in-
ternational fiber-optic submarines cables.
Artist’s depiction
of the Japanese
Experiment Mod-
ule (JEM) for the
International
Space Station.
Toshiba is a par-
ticipant in the
JEM program.
Courtesy of NASDA
stems & Services Company