

FHI will assign its wind-power generator business to Hitachi, Ltd. on 1st July, 2012 and its sanitation truck business to ShinMaywa Industries, Ltd. on 28th December, 2012.
For more detail information, please refer the following link.
pressrelease : Assignment of Fuji Heavy Industries Wind Turbine Generator System Business to Hitachi
pressrelease : ShinMaywa and FHI to Integrate Refuse Collector Business
The Eco Technologies Company is located in the Utsunomiya Main Plant, in Utsunomiya City, Tochigi (named Eco-Utsunomiya Plant). It develops and manufactures the products and systems that contribute to the protection of global environment and the construction of a livable society adopting resource-recycling system. Its flagship is the Fuji Mighty sanitation truck series. The sanitation truck has been manufactured and developed since 1961, and now the Fuji Mighty is the most popular brand on the market of sanitation trucks in Japan, used for the collection and the transportation of any kind of garbage. In 2010, the Fuji Mighty Electra electric sanitation truck was introduced. In order to set an acceptable price in the market, generalized VRLA battery (valve-regulated lead-acid battery, i.e. sealed lead-acid battery), whose cost is lower than the next generation battery, has been adopted for the Fuji Mighty Electra, so that The Eco Technologies Company can contribute to approaches to low-carbon society. Moreover, preparing for the expiration of battery while the operation of loading and discharging garbage, the parallel hybrid drivetrain at that the power coming from electric motor drive and engine drive can be arbitrarily switched has been adopted in the Fuji Mighty Electra, and the plug-in system for its battery to be charged from domestic power supply outlet has been adopted. These methods mean that convenience is united to environmental performance at a high level. By applying its aircraft manufacturing technology, the company also began to research and develop a wind-power generator system. Taking into account key local parameters such as Japan's complex land topography, harsh climate, and for use out at sea, the company adopted the downwind rotor system in which the downwind turbine has its rotor on the back side of the turbine. So far, the company has commercialized large pinwheels with scale generating 2000kW. The Clean Robot Division created the world first unmanned cleaning robot capable of cleaning all floors of a skyscraper and to using the elevator to move from one floor to the next as humans would do.
【Main Products】
The Fuji Mighty sanitation truck/The Fuji Mighty Electra electric sanitation truck/The Power Loader detaching type container truck/The Motoruc tricycle truck for premises/The Subaru 80/2.0 wind-power generator system/The building cleaning system employing floor-cleaning robots


