Founded in 1896, Kawasaki Heavy Industries is a Japan-based company that together with its subsidiaries, including Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation, Kawasaki Precision Machinery and Kawasaki Plant Systems, engages in the manufacture and sale of transportation equipment and industrial goods in Japan, North America, Europe, Asia and internationally. The company s shipbuilding segment manufactures container ships, tankers, bulk carriers, high-speed vessels, submarines and maritime application equipment. Its rolling stock and construction machinery segment produces electric train cars, including shinkansen bullet trains, electric and diesel locomotives, passenger coaches, integrated transit systems, platform screen doors and wheel loaders. Kawasaki Heavy Industries aerospace segment manufactures CH-47, OH-1, and BK117 helicopters; component parts for the Boeing 777 and 767 passenger airplanes, and Embraer 170 and 190 jet aircrafts; missiles; electronic equipment; and space equipment.