The company will begin building a plant by the end of the year on a 400, 000-sq.-meter plot near Savanna in the state of Georgia. The total cost is estimated at around 10 billion yen (US$109.56 million).
Mitsubishi Heavy decided to open the plant because it expects demand for combustors, a key component of gas turbines, to increase in North America, having secured orders for 50 gas turbines in the U.S. and Canada.
The firm plans to boost its worldwide annual gas turbine output capacity to 50 by the end of the year through March 31, 2013. This will likely require the setting up overseas operations to complement its domestic production capacity of 36 units a year.
The major manufacturer of power plant equipment intends to fill the gap by opening a U.S. facility. Although plans were put on hold due to the global economic slump, it will consider manufacturing gas turbines there once demand picks up.
Mitsubishi Heavy believes that U.S. orders for gas turbines will grow because natural gas power stations have lower environmental load than coal-fired plants, which are dominant in the nation at present.
(Nikkei) rw

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