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On January 12, a tornado swept through Jackson, Georgia, severely damaging a 336,017-square-foot parts distribution center operated by Hitachi Construction Machinery Americas.
“We are very thankful that our evacuation plan was successful and that no major injuries were reported among our valued team members,” said Hitachi Construction Machinery Americas CEO Al Quinn.
The Jackson parts warehouse began operation in March 2022 to fortify the Hitachi Construction Machinery parts supply system in the Americas. The warehouse stored parts for distribution not only within the United States, but also throughout the Americas, from Canada to Latin America.
The tornado has rendered the Jackson parts warehouse unusable in the near term. Part of the warehouse roof collapsed, and there is significant damage to the building’s infrastructure. Hitachi team members cannot access the facility or its current inventory until it is determined to be safe, which may take several weeks.
Hitachi has rolled out its contingency plans to ensure timely delivery of parts to support Hitachi customers in the Americas:
These plans will minimize any disruption for Hitachi customers, the company said in a statement.
“We are taking steps to prevent any disruption to our customers’ businesses by employing the full breadth of Hitachi resources,” says Quinn. “We will do whatever it takes to be the best supplier our customers and dealers work with."
Source: Hitachi
Pictured (left to right): Dottie Watkins, CapMetro; Andrew Barr, Hitachi Europe Ltd.; and Giuseppe Marino, Hitachi Rail.
Capital Metro (CapMetro) of Austin, Tex., names Dottie Watkins President and CEO. Also, Denton County (Tex.) Transportation Authority (DCTA) appoints four new executives, Maurice Bell, Sherrelle Evans-Jones, Bracey Goodwin IV and David Magaña; and Hitachi, Ltd. elevates Andrew Barr to Vice President and Executive Officer in charge of Regional Strategies (EMEA), and President of Hitachi Europe Ltd., and Giuseppe Marino to Group CEO of Hitachi Rail, a global supplier of rolling stock, signaling, service and maintenance, digital technology and turnkey systems.
Dottie Watkins has been appointed to lead CapMetro, following a Board of Directors vote on Jan. 30. She had served as the agency’s interim CEO since June 2022, when former President and CEO Randy Clarke departed for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. She will oversee CapMetro’s commuter rail, bus, on-demand and shuttle services.
Watkins joined CapMetro in 1994 as a part-time shuttle bus operator while attending the University of Texas at Austin. Over the course of 30 years, she rose through the ranks holding multiple leadership positions, including Vice President, Bus Operations and Maintenance; Chief Customer Officer/Chief Operating Officer; and Deputy CEO.
“As a Board, it was crucial that we selected the right leader for this position and for our community,” CapMetro Board Chair and Travis County Commissioner Jeff Travillion said. “We interviewed multiple qualified candidates for this position, and we wanted to make sure the person we selected had a stellar professional reputation, a proven track record of getting things done and most importantly, was someone the community could trust and their staff could respect and also have confidence in. Dottie meets all those qualifications and I’m confident we made the right decision selecting her as the next President and CEO.”
At DCTA, four new leaders will help run the 21-mile A-Train commuter railroad as well as the Denton and Lewisville Connect Bus, University of North Texas (UNT) Campus Shuttles, and North Texas Xpress commuter bus:
“It’s exciting that we have retained talented, bright and experienced leaders for our team, each of whom bring a wide variety of expertise that will keep DCTA moving forward,” said DCTA CEO Paul Cristina, who took over the top job in March 2022 following Raymond Suarez’s resignation. “With these key leaders now in place, we can better focus our organization on the future and on improving mobility solutions for Denton County residents.”
In related developments, DART and DCTA are launching a joint rail operations facility.
At Hitachi, Ltd., Andrew Barr, currently Group CEO of Hitachi Rail, will become the Vice President and Executive Officer in charge of Regional Strategies (EMEA), and President of Hitachi Europe Ltd., effective April 1. The new Group CEO of Hitachi Rail will be Giuseppe Marino.
In his newly created role, Barr will lead the EMEA region corporate headquarters and report to Keiji Kojima, Hitachi, Ltd.’s Representative Executive Officer, President and CEO. He will be responsible for driving growth for Hitachi’s businesses across Europe’s mobility, energy and digital sectors.
“I’m excited by this new opportunity to deliver Hitachi’s ambitions to serve customers and society across the many sectors in which Hitachi is present in Europe,” Barr said. “Over the past four years as Group CEO for Hitachi Rail, I am proud to have led our teams through the global pandemic, delivered the global integration of our signaling capabilities, driven the significant expansion of our presence in the USA and Canada, and launched our new Smart Mobility business.
“With his strong background in international management and transportation engineering, I am confident of Giuseppe’s ability to lead our teams to deliver Hitachi Rail’s commitments under the mid-term management plan.”
Marino is currently CEO and General Manager of Ansaldo Energia Group. He previously held senior leadership roles at Hitachi Rail, including Group Chief Operating Officer of Rolling Stock. He drove the integration of Ansaldo Breda and Ansaldo STS; delivered the ETR1000, “Italy’s flagship very high speed train” now operating in Spain and France; and ensured “operational excellence” at Hitachi Rail’s Newton Aycliffe factory in the North East of England, according to Hitachi, Ltd. He will report to Alistair Dormer, Executive Vice President Green Energy and Mobility Sector.
“I am proud to be returning to Hitachi Rail at this very exciting time,” said Marino, who will be based in London, Hitachi Rail’s Group headquarters. “Andrew’s leadership of Hitachi Rail has seen it grow considerably in latest years, and the roadmap established in the mid-term management plan is just as exciting. I am committed to ensuring that we will remain focused on serving our customers and society, leading our teams to pioneer greener and more digital solutions, and successfully closing the planned acquisition of Thales’ Ground Transportation Systems (GTS) business.”
Completion of Hitachi Rail’s acquisition of Thales’ GTS business is expected in second-half 2023.
In related news, Hitachi earlier this month published a study on attitudes toward public transport across eight global cities; in November 2022 landed the C$9 billion contract for the Ontario Line Rolling Stock, Systems, Operations and Maintenance (RSSOM) package as part of the Connect 6ix consortium; and in October 2022 released the final designs for its $70 million railcar manufacturing plant and test track in Washington County, Md.
Hitachi India, part of the Japanese conglomerate Hitachi, aims to work towards contributing USD 20 billion in the overall consolidated global revenue for the parent company by 2030 with a ’higher double-digit profit’, said Managing Director Bharat Kaushal.
By 2030, Hitachi India aims to occupy an ”influential position” across rail, energy, and digital, automotive businesses of the group, he said. ”Some of the horizontal enablers that support integrating technologies using digital as the catalyst including Artificial Intelligence (AI), hydrogen, and energy storage, will become an important growth driver.
We aim to have a higher double-digit profit to the overall Hitachi’s consolidated revenues,” Kaushal told PTI. India is increasingly emerging as a base to do business outside India, especially in capital goods, where the government has launched a lot of incentives for technology transfer, and funding it, allowing to keep the IPR and these are very significant steps. When asked about Hitachi India’s revenue, Kaushal said:
”We expect to contribute to Hitachi’s economy by USD 20 billion”. The idea is that India will work towards contributing the above amount to the overall global revenue for Hitachi, he added. ”Hitachi’s innovative and globally acclaimed technology has been fuelling the transformation of India. Hitachi’s new Mid-term Management Plan 2024 aims to support people’s quality of life with data and technology that fosters a sustainable society,” he said. Hitachi has been playing a significant role in accelerating India’s journey towards achieving a carbon-neutral environment.
”Growing globally by digital, green, and innovation, Hitachi India will continue creating milestones across the globe. Hitachi operates in the infra, manufacturing and IT sectors among others. In 2012, India was converted into a region. Hitachi has five regions outside Japan, of which two are large emerging countries of India and China, and the rest are the US, Europe and Asia. The other regions of Hitachi are presently bigger than India but Kaushal expects it to scale up.
”Increasingly, the focus on India’s importance in Hitachi is gathering momentum very significantly,” he said adding, ”it is coinciding with Japan and India trying to make more winners out of their economic engagement story.”
The India solutions are not just about scale but also about affordability. The company is expanding its canvas of business proficiencies in the country. ”Investments and acquisitions are ongoing progressive business plans for Hitachi to strengthen further its position in the ecosystem of Social Innovation Business,” he said adding, ”Our core areas as part of our forward-looking Mid-Term Management Plan 2024 will have a direct correlation to the future investments we carry out focusing on offering solutions including Green Technology, Digital Technology and Innovation.”
Though Hitachi did not share the exact investment made in India, Kaushal said it has witnessed a ”phenomenal growth progression” in the last couple of years. ”This is primarily due to the significant investments we have made at the global level that includes the acquisition of the power grids business of ABB (Now Hitachi Energy), GlobalLogic, Hitachi Astemo etc. the investment within Hitachi is a globally driven process and we as Regional Headquarter become an integral part of this heightened ecosystem,” he said. For FY21, Hitachi India’s consolidated financial revenue was around Rs 17,204 crore (around 274 billion yen).
TOKYO — Japanese carmaker Nissan Motor Co Ltd and a Hitachi Ltd subsidiary said on Friday they plan to roll out a system to keep elevators running during blackouts by drawing power from the batteries of electric vehicles.
Few cars today are capable of bi-directional charging, where vehicles can become a power source for homes, or feed energy back into the grid, though carmakers such as Ford Motor Co and Renault SA are among those jumping on the bandwagon.
In what appears to be an early attempt in earthquake-prone Japan to make wider use of EV batteries, Nissan and Hitachi Building Systems Co Ltd are focused on keeping elevators running when the power supply is disrupted.
During a pilot project unveiled on Friday, the firms said they had kept an elevator with capacity for nine people running at slow speed for 10 hours by drawing power from the battery of a Sakura, a fully electric micro "kei" car made by Nissan.
The V2X system uses the CHAdeMO charging standard supported by Nissan, an Hitachi Building Systems executive said.
That allows it to also draw power from larger Nissan EVs, such as the Ariya and Leaf models.
Tatsunori Takahashi, a director in the domestic business management division of Hitachi Building Systems, said he hopes the firm will start providing the system to apartment buildings from the financial year starting in April.
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Ukraine's Ministry of Defense on Friday outlined three priorities for its meeting with allied ministers in Ramstein, Germany regarding the war with Russia.
United States Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark A. Milley, as well as military chiefs and defense ministers from 50 other countries, met with the Ukrainian Defense Contact Group on Friday at Ramstein Air Base. The leaders will discuss Russia's war in Ukraine, and how Kyiv can defend itself against its neighbor. It was the eighth such meeting at the German base between Ukrainian and other defense officials.
In a tweet on Friday morning ahead of the talks, Ukraine's defense ministry tweeted: "There are three priorities of Ukraine at #Ramstein 8: More air defence systems; Weapons for the offensive operations (tanks, howitzers, ammo); Systematic ammo supplies +service&repair for armament and machinery."
Kyiv has made repeated calls for Western allies to provide heavy artillery to use against Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also addressed the defense leaders via video call on Friday, making an impassioned plea for more military aid, including battle tanks.
"The war started by Russia does not allow delays and I can thank you hundreds of times for all that you have already done, but, hundreds of thank yous are not hundreds of tanks," Zelensky said.
"I am truly grateful to all of you for all the weapons you have provided. Every unit helps to save our people from terror but time, time remains a Russian weapon. You and I have to speed up. We have to do it."
Last week, the United Kingdom said it would provide a small number of Challenger 2 tanks to help deter Russia's invasion, making Britain the first Western power to supply the Ukrainians with main battle tanks. Germany has deferred a decision on sending armed tanks to support Ukraine's war efforts, despite increasing pressure from Kyiv and other Western allies. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said his ministry would check stocks of the Leopard 2 tank for possible delivery.
"There are good reasons for the delivery, there are good reasons against it," Pistorius said.
Last week, Poland said it would send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine and Finland also indicated that it was prepared to supply Kyiv with the tanks.
This chart, provided by Statista, shows the number of Leopard 2 battle tanks exported from Germany between 2002 and 2021.
Austin said in opening remarks before the talks that Russian President Vladimir Putin did not count on the "courage" of the Ukrainian people when he launched the unprovoked attack on the country last February.
He said that the West would continue to support Ukraine's military "for as long as it takes." Austin added that there will not be a monthly meeting of "nations of goodwill" to focus on "winning today's fight and the struggles to come".
At the start of the conflict, which began on February 24, 2022, Putin believed he would take the Ukrainian capital Kyiv in just a matter of days, but the Russian Army was met with tough opposition. Russia has captured parts of southern and eastern Ukraine, but Kyiv has since won back some of those areas in counteroffensives.
Newsweek reached out to the Pentagon for comment.
TOKYO -- Hitachi group company Hitachi Channel Solutions has started up a new ATM factory in India, tripling its production in the country as it looks to attract more local business.
The plant, located in the southwestern state of Karnataka and run by local subsidiary Hitachi Terminal Solutions, began operations on Friday, according to an announcement. The facility can produce up to 3,000 cash machines per month, three times the capacity of the old Hitachi factory it is replacing in the same region.
Americans may be offered a single dose of a Covid vaccine each fall, much as they are given flu shots, the Food and Drug Administration announced on Monday.
To simplify the makeup and timing of the shots, the agency also is proposing to retire the original vaccines and to offer only bivalent doses for primary and booster shots, according to briefing documents published on Monday.
The proposal took some scientists by surprise, including a few of the F.D.A.’s own advisers. They are scheduled to meet on Thursday to discuss the country’s vaccine strategy, including which doses should be offered and on what schedule.
“I’m choosing to believe that they are open to advice, and that they haven’t already made up their minds as to exactly what they’re going to do,” Dr. Paul Offit, one of the advisers and director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said of F.D.A. officials.
There was little research to support the suggested plan, some advisers said.
“I’d like to see some data on the effect of dosing interval, at least observational data,” said Dr. Eric Rubin, one of the advisers and editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. “And going forward, I’d like to see data collected to try to tell if we’re doing the right thing.”
Still, Dr. Rubin added, “I’d definitely be in favor of something simpler, as it would make it more likely that people might take it.”
Only about 40 percent of adults aged 65 and older, and only 16 percent of those 5 and older, have received the latest Covid booster shot. Many experts, including federal officials, have said that the doses are most important for Americans at high risk of severe disease and death from Covid: older adults, immunocompromised people, pregnant women and those with multiple underlying conditions.
In its briefing documents, the F.D.A. addressed the varying risks to people of different ages and health status.
“Most individuals may only need to receive one dose of an approved or authorized Covid-19 vaccine to restore protective immunity for a period of time,” the agency said. Very young children who may not already have been infected with the virus, as well as older adults and immunocompromised people, may need two shots, the documents said.
But some scientists said there was little to suggest that Americans at low risk needed even a single annual shot. The original vaccines continue to protect young and healthy people from severe disease, and the benefit of annual boosters is unclear.
Most people are “well protected against severe Covid disease with a primary series and without yearly boosters,” said Dr. Céline Gounder, an infectious disease physician and senior fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The F.D.A. advisers said they would like to see detailed information regarding who is most vulnerable to the virus and to make decisions about future vaccination strategy based on those data.
“How old are they? What are their comorbidities? When was the last dose of vaccine they got? Did they take antiviral medicines?” Dr. Offit said. At the moment, the national strategy seems to be, “‘OK, well, let’s just dose everybody all the time,’” he said. “And that’s just not a good reason.”
According to the F.D.A.’s suggested plan, officials would choose the annual vaccine’s composition each June, targeted to fight whatever variant is circulating.
But this year, the booster was quickly outpaced by newly evolved variants. It might make more sense to develop vaccines that target parts of the coronavirus other than the so-called spike protein, which changes less frequently, some researchers said.
They also criticized the agency’s proposal to use the current “bivalent” vaccine, which was designed to counter both the original Wuhan variant and the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron variants that were circulating last summer, when the agency decided on the makeup of the booster doses.
Some studies have suggested that combining both variants in the booster dose has undermined their effectiveness. Because of a biological phenomenon called imprinting, preliminary research suggests the bivalent vaccine elicits a stronger immune response to the ancestral variant than to the newer variants.
A monovalent vaccine targeted only to the newer variants might have been more powerful, experts said.
“This makes no sense, based on what we’ve learned from the current bivalent vaccine and imprinting,” Dr. Gounder said of the F.D.A.’s proposal. “Why not switch to a monovalent Omicron vaccine?”
The F.D.A. advisers said they hoped the meeting on Thursday would allow for robust discussion of those questions. But others were more skeptical.
The voting questions “are framed in such a way as to force a certain outcome,” Dr. Gounder said.
Hitachi India, part of the Japanese conglomerate Hitachi, aims to work towards contributing USD 20 billion in the overall consolidated global revenue for the parent company by 2030 with a ‘higher double-digit profit’, said Managing Director Bharat Kaushal.
By 2030, Hitachi India aims to occupy an “influential position” across rail, energy, and digital, automotive businesses of the group, he said.
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“Some of the horizontal enablers that support integrating technologies using digital as the catalyst including Artificial Intelligence (AI), hydrogen, and energy storage, will become an important growth driver. We aim to have a higher double-digit profit to the overall Hitachi’s consolidated revenues,” Kaushal told PTI.
India is increasingly emerging as a base to do business outside India, especially in capital goods, where the government has launched a lot of incentives for technology transfer, and funding it, allowing to keep the IPR and these are very significant steps.
When asked about Hitachi India’s revenue, Kaushal said: “We expect to contribute to Hitachi’s economy by USD 20 billion”.
The idea is that India will work towards contributing the above amount to the overall global revenue for Hitachi, he added.
“Hitachi’s innovative and globally acclaimed technology has been fuelling the transformation of India. Hitachi’s new Mid-term Management Plan 2024 aims to support people’s quality of life with data and technology that fosters a sustainable society,” he said.
Hitachi has been playing a significant role in accelerating India’s journey towards achieving a carbon-neutral environment.
“Growing globally by digital, green, and innovation, Hitachi India will continue creating milestones across the globe. Hitachi operates in the infra, manufacturing and IT sectors among others.
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In 2012, India was converted into a region. Hitachi has five regions outside Japan, of which two are large emerging countries of India and China, and the rest are the US, Europe and Asia.
The other regions of Hitachi are presently bigger than India but Kaushal expects it to scale up.
“Increasingly, the focus on India’s importance in Hitachi is gathering momentum very significantly,” he said adding, “it is coinciding with Japan and India trying to make more winners out of their economic engagement story.” The India solutions are not just about scale but also about affordability. The company is expanding its canvas of business proficiencies in the country.
“Investments and acquisitions are ongoing progressive business plans for Hitachi to strengthen further its position in the ecosystem of Social Innovation Business,” he said adding: “Our core areas as part of our forward-looking Mid-Term Management Plan 2024 will have a direct correlation to the future investments we carry out focusing on offering solutions including Green Technology, Digital Technology and Innovation.” Though Hitachi did not share the exact investment made in India, Kaushal said it has witnessed a “phenomenal growth progression” in the last couple of years.
“This is primarily due to the significant investments we have made at the global level that includes – the acquisition of the power grids business of ABB (Now Hitachi Energy), GlobalLogic, Hitachi Astemo etc. the investment within Hitachi is a globally driven process and we as Regional Headquarter become an integral part of this heightened ecosystem,” he said.
For FY21, Hitachi India’s consolidated financial revenue was around Rs 17,204 crore (around 274 billion yen).