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In an October 2013, reorganization, the Community
Solutions Company was established as a new company,
bringing together businesses and companies working in
related areas under the same umbrella: the Community
Solutions Division, handles various wide area energy
management systems covering cities, buildings, factories
and housing, traffic control systems disaster prevention
communications systems; the Water & Environmental
Systems Division, handles water supply and sewerage
systems and environmental systems; Toshiba Elevator and
Building Systems Corporation covers the elevators and
escalators systems; Toshiba Lighting & Technology
Corporation, handles the lighting systems; and Toshiba
Carrier Corporation handles the commercial air-conditioning
systems. In January 2014, Community Solutions Group
companies were brought together in the Smart Community
Center, a new building in Kawasaki, promoting group-wide
synergies.
With the Energy & Social Infrastructure business, the
group will continue to promote the realization of safe, secure
and comfortable communities by providing diverse
community solutions through ICT and cloud computing
technologies: city infrastructure solutions, such as energy
and water management systems; building solutions, such as
elevators that carry people smoothly and safely; lighting and
air-conditioning offering high energy efficiency and high
environmental performance; and home solutions that
support comfortable lives.
In FY2013, while sales increased on growth in solar
photovoltaic systems and of
disaster prevention systems for
local governments, and in
elevators and commercial air-
conditioning in the Chinese and
Asian markets, income declined
slightly on deterioration in the
lighting business in the U.S.
and Europe.
Community Solutions Business /
Water & Environmental Systems Business
We continue to strengthen domestic business, and we are
also expanding overseas business. In March 2014, we took
an equity stake in UEM India, which has a track record of
delivering water and wastewater management facilities in
North America, Central America, and Africa, and through our
partnership we have determined to expand the business
with a focus on India and markets in neighboring countries.
Looking ahead, we will use this capital alliance to expand
Toshiba’s products and, through synergies for both
companies, to increase sales of water treatment plant for
power stations, and to continue providing services and
solutions to Japanese companies expanding into the region
and to local companies with high environmental
consciousness.
We have built a framework that encompasses all aspects of
elevators and escalators business from product and system
development to production, installation, adjustment,
maintenance and renewals in order to globally offer total
solutions for the environment, energy saving and security
with the state-of-the-art technologies.
In October 2013, we won an order to provide 111
elevators and escalators, including 420 meter-a-minute high-
speed elevators, for the second phase of construction of
Galaxy Macau, the largest luxury resort hotel in Macau,
China. With the units supplied in the  rst phase, completed
in 2011, we will supply a total of 209 units across the two
phases of construction
In November 2013, at the 10th Eco Products Awards,
sponsored by the Eco-Products Awards Promotion Council,
our energy saving, environmentally-conscious and
earthquake-conscious “SPACEL-GR” and “ELCRUISE” elevators
received the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award,
the highest of the awards, in the “Eco-Products Category”.
These energy saving products have been certi ed as Toshiba
Group “Excellent ECPs,” which means they offer the best
environmental performance in the industry.
Community Solutions Company
Toshiba Elevator and Building Systems Corporation
A water sewage treatment plant in India
constructed by UEM
“ELCRUISE” “SPACEL-GR”
Community Solutions Segment
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