Hitachi

Global Technology and Infrastructure Group

Hitachi is a Japan-founded global company focused on technology, infrastructure, and digital solutions. Its work is organized into four areas: digital services, energy, mobility, and industry. The company describes itself as a global leader in digital innovation and sustainable solutions, with more than 110 years of history.

Operations in Spain

The hitachi.es website covers the group’s Spanish operations, which are part of Hitachi’s European organization. The company reports that Hitachi Group in Europe has 53,000 employees and 155 companies. In Spain, several specialized subsidiaries operate under the group.

Businesses in Spain

• Hitachi Vantara: digital services, data, and enterprise applications.
• Hitachi Energy: technology for utilities, industry, and infrastructure, including sustainable mobility, smart cities, energy storage, and data centers.
• Hitachi Rail: an integrated rail supplier offering rolling stock, traction equipment, signaling, traffic-management systems, and maintenance depots.
• Particle therapy systems: particle-technology treatment for cancer.
• VLC Photonics: part of Hitachi High-Tech Group, providing integrated photonic-circuit services from initial evaluation and design through fabrication and packaging.

Technology Areas

The group’s offerings include digital services such as consulting, digital engineering, cloud, applications, AI, data analytics, and cybersecurity; energy products such as grid automation and integration, high-voltage products, and transformers; mobility solutions such as high-speed trains, signaling, traffic management, and fleet electrification; and industrial technologies such as automation, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, industrial components, measurement and analysis systems, and electron microscopes.

Customers and Markets

Hitachi serves governments, cities, and companies in energy, mobility, industry, and digital technology. The group says its work aims to help reduce carbon emissions and support sustainability.