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| Hongling Financial Leasing Co., Ltd. (Hongling), a construction
machinery leasing joint venture established by Mitsubishi
Corporation (MC) and Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance
(MUL) in Shanghai, China, has started operation. China’s
growing economy requires the establishment and expansion of
housing, water and sewage, dams, agriculture water and other
infrastructure, and this leads to expectation for strong mid-and
long-term demand in the construction machinery sector.
Against this backdrop, Hongling has set up headquarters in
Shanghai and plans to grow its leasing
business around Hitachi Construction
Machinery’s tough and fuel efficient
hydraulic excavators by leveraging
MC’s proven track record in selling this
make of machinery and its business
know-how in China as well as MUL’s
know-how in the leasing business. |
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Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation’s new Canter Eco
Hybrid light-duty truck was crowned the Irish Green Commercial
of the Year 2013 (Hybrid Category) at the eighth annual Fleet
Transport Awards Gala Dinner in Ireland. The judging process used
was the same as that in the International Truck of the Year awards;
points being awarded across twelve criteria including efficiency,
performance, flexibility, driving
comfort, and cabin layout.
The Canter Eco Hybrid also won
the 3rd Kanagawa Global Warming
Prevention Award in Japan this year
and became the first commercial
vehicle to receive the 2013 RJC
(Automotive Researchers’ &
Journalists’ Conference of Japan)
Car of the Year Special Award for
its innovative DUONIC® dual-clutch
transmission with hybrid motor. |
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| The FUSO Ireland team receiving the award
of Irish Green Commercial of the Year 2013
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Mitsubishi Chemical has begun marketing a plant factory system
which employs LED lighting. The company sold its first plant
factory to the Russian company Mir Upakovki in St. Petersburg.
The system installed provides the Mir Upakovki factory with all the
facilities needed to cultivate vegetables, including air conditioning
to maintain the right temperature and a water treatment plant with
filtration cycles to allow reuse of water. LEDs provide all the light
required for photosynthesis. The innovative system allows fresh
vegetables to be harvested
The VMO plant factory in Hong Kong
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all year round, even during winter with
little sunlight and sub-zero temperatures, an important aspect in
Mir Upakovki’s decision to introduce the system.
Mitsubishi Chemical has also sold a similar system to the
Vegetable Marketing Organization Ltd. (VMO) based in the Hong
Kong Special Administrative
Region, China. Installed in VMO’s
vegetable shipment center within
the Hong Kong vegetable market,
the system allows VMO to grow,
pack and ship vegetables under a
single roof. |
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The Mir Upakovki CJSC plant factory in Russia |
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Mitsubishi Motors Corporation gave the MITSUBISHI Concept
GR-HEV¹ and the MITSUBISHI Concept CA-MiEV² concept models
their world premiere at the 83rd Geneva International Motor Show
in March. The two concept models introduce MMC’s unique next generation
advanced technologies (@earth TECHNOLOGY³). |
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| MITSUBISHI Concept GR-HEV |
| The MITSUBISHI Concept GR-HEV is a concept for a
sport utility truck that brings further enhancements
in environmental and driving performance to the
sedan- or SUV-like comfort levels and pickup truck
functionality realized in the popularTriton/L200.
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| MITSUBISHI Concept CA-MiEV |
| The MITSUBISHI Concept CA-MiEV concept gives
a peek at the direction MMC believes EVs will take
in the near future. MMC launched the world’s first
mass production electric vehicle, the i-MiEV, in 2009.
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■http://www.mitsubishi-motors.com/en/discoveries/motorshow/2013/gms2013/index.html
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Note 1: GR: Grand Runner – represents powerful driving through grand and magnificent lands with advanced
technology.
Note 2: CA: Compact and Advanced technology – a combination of advanced EV technology and next generation
compact packaging.
Note 3: Generic term for a raft of next-generation advanced technologies which, true to MMC’s Drive@earth corporate tagline, contribute to environmental responsibility and driving pleasure as well as to
enhancing reliability and reassuring levels of safety. |
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