Hitachi Zosen U.S.A. Ltd. (New York; President Takashi Hayato), the US subsidiary of Hitachi Zosen Corporation (Hitz), opened a Houston Branch (Houston, Texas; Vice President Shigeharu Okumura) on April 1, with marketing activities commencing on July 1.

Building housing the Houston Branch (exterior)

The Houston Branch will engage primarily in the marketing of process equipment offered by Hitachi Zosen, such as large pressure vessels and heat exchangers.
With the progress in extraction of cheap shale gas, Houston is seeing a rush on construction of petrochemical plants for converting shale-based liquefied natural gas (LNG) to fertilizer and other products, and the opening of numerous bases of plant engineering and operating companies. Investment in the petrochemical plants is expected to continue in US and other markets in future, and the Houston Branch seeks to meet the rising demand for process equipment used by these plants.

Hitachi Zosen boasts a solid track record in process equipment, with its major plant Ariake Works (Kumamoto) manufacturing for facilities such as fertilizer plants, gas-to-liquids (GTL) plants, refineries, and LNG plants. The company's welding technology is among the best in the world and has realized production of high-temperature, high-pressure reactors from vanadium-enhanced chrome molybdenum steel. In addition to Ariake Works, Hitachi Zosen has a Dahej Works, operated by ISGEC Hitachi Zosen Ltd. (Gujarat, India), a joint venture set up with Indian heavy industry major ISGEC Heavy Engineering Limited (Haryana, India). Between the two plants, Hitachi Zosen is set to flexibly meet customer demand for a broad range of products, from high-grade, high-quality process equipment to general purpose equipment.

The outline of the Houston Branch is as follows.
1.Branch name: Hitachi Zosen U.S.A. Ltd. Houston Branch (Vice President Shigeharu Okumura)
2.Location: One Westchase Center 10F, 10777 Westheimer, Suite 1015N, Houston, Texas 77042 U.S.A.
3.Products: Pressure vessels, heat exchangers
4.Contact: Tel +1-713-955-8120 / Fax +1-281-476-7849

News Release 2016

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