MHI enhances production structure at Takasago Machinery Works to Increase production of G-type gas turbines

MHI will expand in-house production capacity of gas turbine large components at its Takasago Machinery Works, the company's core plant for production of gas turbines. The aim here is to shift the company's production structure to its higher-efficiency G-type turbines (M501G and M701G), for which orders are sharply increasing, from the F-type systems (M501F and M701F) currently at the center of the company's gas turbine production.

Through introduction of a variety of today's most advanced processing equipment, including turbine casing processing machines, MHI will realize substantial shortening of work time and reduction in the number of processes through integral streamlining of production lines. Equipment installation is scheduled to be completed in fiscal 2009. Through this initiative, the plant will become able to produce more G-type gas turbines than before within its 30 units-per-year gas turbine production capacity.

MHI's G-type gas turbines offer one of the world's largest power generation capacities and highest levels of efficiency, with a turbine inlet temperature in the 1,500°C class. To date, MHI has received orders for more than 50 units from the domestic and overseas markets combined.

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