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IHI Corporation

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IHI Corporation, formerly known as Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Industries Co Ltd, is a Japanese engineering corporation headquartered in Tokyo. It produces and offers ships, space launch vehicles, aircraft engines, marine diesel engines, gas turbines, gas engines, railway systems, automotive turbochargers, plant engineering, industrial machinery, power station boilers and other facilities, and suspension bridges and other structures.

Facts
Agency Type
Japanese engineering conglomerate (space launch vehicle manufacturer) 1
Founded Year
1853 1
Headquarters
Toyosu, Koto, Tokyo, Japan 1
Head
Hiroshi Ide (representative director, president and CEO) 2
Annual Budget
JPY 1,626,831 million consolidated revenue (fiscal year ended March 2025) 3
Corporate-wide consolidated revenue; the space launch vehicle business is one of several segments and IHI does not publish a separate space-only budget figure.
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What space launch hardware has IHI Corporation worked on?

IHI has worked on sounding rockets, the M-V and Epsilon launch vehicles and the SRB-A booster for the H-IIA and H-IIB.

IHI Corporation lists space products that include the S-type sounding rockets, the M-V launch vehicle, the Epsilon launch vehicle and the SRB-A solid rocket booster for the H-IIA and H-IIB launch vehicles. It is also a partner in Galaxy Express Corporation, which is associated with the GX launch vehicle.
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Source Wikipedia: IHI CorporationLead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia articletier 2
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IHI Corporation (株式会社IHI, Kabushiki-gaisha IHI), formerly known as Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (石川島播磨重工業株式会社, Ishikawajima Harima Jūkōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese engineering corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan that produces and offers ships, space launch vehicles, aircraft engines, marine diesel engines, gas turbines, gas engines, railway systems, turbochargers for automobiles, plant engineering, industrial machinery, power station boilers and other facilities, suspension bridges and other structures.
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1. Wikipedia: IHI Corporation
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2. IHI Corporation: Corporate Officers (Hiroshi Ide)
IHI CorporationExecutive profile entry
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Representative Director and President; Chief Executive Officer, IHI
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3. Japan IR: IHI Corporation Financial Summary
Japan IRIncome Statement / Financial Performance tableView the Source
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