- Headquarters
- Tokyo / Kobe, Japan · East Asia
- Value chain
- Hardware & devices(Products); also Equipment & machinery
- What that means
- Makes physical products under its own name: computers, robots, vehicles, aircraft, drones, satellites, batteries, solar modules, reactors and medical devices.
- Founded
- 1896
- Ownership
- Listed
- Listing
- TSE:7012 on Google Finance
- Website
- global.kawasaki.com
- Relevance
- High at its strongest, in Advanced Robotics
Tokyo / Kobe, JapanIn 4 capabilities
Each capability the company is listed in, most relevant first: how experts in the field see its global relevance there, why it is listed and the source.
Robotics & Autonomous Systems · Manufacture · listed #6 of 50
Japan's first industrial robot maker (1969) and still a major supplier of welding, painting and medical robots (through Medicaroid); it is developing the Kaleido humanoid.
Relevance: Long-established major industrial robot supplier worldwide
Space Technologies · Manufacture · listed #22 of 50
Builds the XF7-10 turbofan for the P-1 aircraft and small turbojets for Japanese missiles, and takes shares in international turbofan programmes.
Relevance: Japanese engine maker for P-1 and small missile turbojets
Energy Technologies · Manufacture · listed #24 of 50
It built the world's first liquefied hydrogen carrier, Suiso Frontier, and develops large liquefied hydrogen tanks, liquefiers and hydrogen gas turbines.
Relevance: Pioneer of liquefied hydrogen shipping.
Energy Technologies · Integration · listed #33 of 50
Prime contractor for Japan's ATLA vehicle-mounted high-energy laser counter-drone system that is under test.
Relevance: Japanese laser counter-drone prime; early stage.