Hirata Corporation announced that it has recently been awarded large-scale purchase orders as detailed below. Hirata has been an active player in the global market of automotive, semiconductor, and other automatic labor-saving equipment businesses by providing engineering, manufacturing and sales of various types of production equipment associated with engines, transmissions, semiconductor wafer transfer, OLED and so on. Notably, in automotive business, a full-scale operation was launched for EV-related production equipment in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2017.

Against this backdrop, Hirata received large-scale orders for EV-related production equipment. Some general information on the orders is outlined below. Please note that are unable to disclose the full details due to strict confidentiality agreements with the customer.

The expected value of the order is over JPY 7.5 billion including the portion to be handled by US operation.