() is a Japanese company based in the Tokyo Building in Tokyo, manufactures electric and architectural equipment, as well as a major worldwide producer of photovoltaic panels. The Corporation was established on 15 January 1921. One of its products is the SCOPO. The Corporation claims (as cited in "References") to have achieved the world's first transmission at 10 Gbit/s between relay equipment boards set at a distance of 500 mm apart.

Mitsubishi Electric is also one of the top 5 manafacturers of Photovoltaics, competing with Sharp, Kyocera, BP, and Shell.

It is one of the Mitsubishi Group core companies.

Subsidiaries

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• Nihon Kentetsu

Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America

Products

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• The company makes Active Electronically Scanned Array radar systems for the Mitsubishi F-2 fighter.
• Televisions
  • The company's most notable product in the United States is the large screen CRT (rear projection) television. Competitors in this market are Sony, Pioneer, Panasonic, JVC, Samsung (Akai), Daewoo, LG (Zenith), and Apex Digital.
  • The company manufactured direct-view CRT televisions until 2001. The last notable size in this field was a 40" (diagonal) tube size.
  • As of 2005, the company is focusing on DLP and LCD video projection systems.
  • The company held the record for the fastest elevator in the world, in the 70-storey Landmark Tower, Yokohama, from 1993 until 2005, when it was overtaken by Toshiba's elevator in the new Taipei 101 building in Taiwan.

References

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• Achievements
• Book Site of former employee who wrote a book about working as a foreigner in the company.

External links

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• Company website (in Japanese)
• Company International portal

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