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Toshiba Consumer Electronics Holdings Corporation
coordinates management of group companies engaged in
the white goods, lighting fixtures and air-conditioning
businesses.
By providing home appliances and services with
improved environmental performance and that match
speci c regional characteristics, we will work to strengthen
home energy management systems within the smart
communities business.
In FY2012 the segment returned higher net sales on
growth in LED lighting and business air-conditioning, and
increased sales from white goods. Despite a decline in
white goods due to the negative effects of yen
depreciation, the segment recorded higher operating
income due to increased income from LED lighting.
White Goods
We are promoting expansion in emerging markets, where
high growth is expected. In December 2012 we started up
a new washing machine factory in Indonesia that will serve
Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s largest washing machine
market, and also become a global manufacturing base,
supplying products to the rest of Southeast Asia, the Near
and Middle East and Japan. We have invested in securing
early recovery at our white goods manufacturing site in
Thailand, damaged by flooding in FY2011, and by
introducing state-of-the-art equipment we have raised
capacity above pre- ood levels.
Toshiba Consumer Electronics
Holdings Corporation
Lighting Business
The October 2012 merger of Toshiba Lighting & Technology
Corporation (lighting equipment for facilities and homes)
with Harrison Toshiba Lighting Corporation, (industrial light
source equipment) established a structure for business
expansion and the early commercialization of next
generation lighting. Overseas, we strengthened business
through measures including expanding the road lighting
business with Green Star Products, Inc., acquired in
December 2012. In November 2012 we launched
“ENEGOON”, a long life, rapid charging, home-use
stationary battery system based on SCiB™ batteries. It
achieves high capacity and an industry leading output
(3.0kVA; in-house research as of September 2012).
ZABOON (TW-Z9500L): Drum-type
washer-dryer with high energy saving
performance heat pump
CAONS 700-type air-to-water circular-
heating heat pump (70KW heating capacity,
90°C maximum output temperature)
In June 2012 we commenced sales of a residential energy management system for
devices compatible with the “ECHONET Lite” communication standard. the system
controls air-conditioning and lighting and visualizes electricity, gas and water usage and
the amount of power generated by solar power and home-use stationary battery systems.
VEGETA (GR-F56FXV) Fridge-freezer
featuring middle vegetable draw
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Energy measuring unit
Modem
IT access point
Residential solar power system
Air-conditioning
Heat pump water heater
ECHONET Lite
Home-use stationary
battery system
Internet
REGZA
WAN
LAN
Personal
computer
FEMINITY Club
(cloud)
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Air-conditioning Business
Heat pumps, the core technology of our air conditioning
and water heating systems, achieve high level energy
e ciency and comfort. In Japan, we meet growing demand
for energy-efficient and power-saving products with
efficient facility management systems for commercial and
industrial applications. Solutions include custom store and
office air-conditioning systems, the water-cooled heat
pump heat source unit “Universal Smart X”, and air-to-water
circular-heating heat pump system “CAONS”. An October
2012 joint venture in Thailand with Fujitsu General Ltd.,
manufactures compressors for air-
conditioning equipment and aim to
develop business in overseas markets
promising future growth.
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