Welcome to the SHI Europe News & Media Centre. This page provides the latest news and announcements from SHI Europe, our subsidiaries across Europe, and SHI headquarters in Tokyo.
Invertek Drives, part of the Sumitomo Heavy Industries Group, has today announced a new strategic partnership with Siemens at Chillventa 2026 in Nuremberg, Germany. The agreement follows nearly five years of technical collaboration between the two companies. Over that time, Siemens and Invertek Dri...
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Sumitomo SHI FW (SFW) has signed a contract with QEMETICA, an international industrial group, to carry out a project to convert a coal-fired boiler into a biomass-fired boiler. The contract was signed by a consortium consisting of SFW, Mostostal Zabrze Realizacje Przemysłowe, and QEMETICA. The mod...
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Across Europe and the UK, periods of extreme heat are increasing pressure on water resources and the infrastructure that communities, businesses and industry depend on. As temperatures rise and demand grows, attention often turns to reservoirs, rivers, restrictions and the need to conserve water. L...
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Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. has published its financial results for the second quarter of FY2026, reporting year-on-year growth in orders, net sales and operating profit. The Group also raised its full year forecast, reflecting strong performance across key businesses and continued progr...
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SHI takes pride in its people. Across Europe and globally, the group brings together a strong and diverse range of companies and employees. Last week, colleagues from across these businesses came together in Amstelveen for the first in person module of the Leadership Development Programme. For many...
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Across Europe, advanced metal forming technologies play a critical role in manufacturing rotationally symmetric components for demanding industrial applications. These processes are used where high precision, complex part shapes, lightweighting, dimensional accuracy and material performance are ess...
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Today is World Day for Safety and Health at Work. Across Sumitomo Heavy Industries businesses in Europe, safety is part of day‑to‑day work. It is reflected in workplaces, procedures and behaviours. It applies to everyone, in every role. SHI Europe supports this approach by helping to share experien...
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Improving safety in complex construction environments Construction industry operations are heavily influenced by unpredictable factors such as weather, geological conditions, and constantly changing work environments, resulting in frequent hazardous incidents. To enhance safety, there is ...
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Safety is more than a policy at Sumitomo Heavy Industries. It is a responsibility shared by everyone, every day. Across SHI and its companies in Europe, safety is treated as a fundamental part of how work is done. It is embedded in leadership behaviours, daily operations, and the way colleagues loo...
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In Europe, Sumitomo Heavy Industries (SHI) businesses operate in technically demanding industries, from advanced manufacturing and semiconductor technology to energy systems and environmental infrastructure. Behind these capabilities sits a broad base of people working across engineering, innovatio...
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Sumitomo Heavy Industries Group has been awarded a Bronze rating by EcoVadis, a leading international sustainability assessment organisation, following its latest group wide sustainability evaluation. EcoVadis assesses companies across four key areas: Environment, Labour and Human Rights, Ethics, a...
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Injection moulding systems play a central role in precision plastics manufacturing across Europe. Automotive components, medical devices, packaging systems and technical industrial parts all depend on stable and repeatable moulding processes to achieve consistent quality at scale. Injection mouldin...
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Across Europe, water and wastewater infrastructure depends on stable mechanical systems operating continuously under variable load conditions. Treatment plants, pumping stations and environmental control systems rely on precise motor control, torque management and energy optimisation to maintain op...
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Semiconductor manufacturing depends on extreme precision, material stability and tightly controlled production environments. At multiple stages of wafer fabrication and device assembly, advanced materials processing technologies are required to shape, modify or prepare components without introducin...
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Across Europe’s industrial and energy infrastructure landscape, reducing greenhouse gas emissions while maintaining reliable power and heat delivery is now a central engineering challenge. This requires solutions that go beyond individual components; it requires systems engineered for decarbo...
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Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. has published its financial results and report for 2025, along with insights into 2026. A presentation for the full year 2025 is available here. The consolidated financial report for the full year can be found here. ...
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Throughout Europe, a wide range of scientific, medical and industrial activities depend on the ability to produce, manage and maintain very low temperatures. Cryogenic systems operate well beyond conventional industrial cooling, supporting processes that require controlled thermal conditions and sp...
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European industry, drive and motion technologies are central to countless production and processing systems. They control speed, torque, positioning and energy use across applications ranging from automated manufacturing lines to water infrastructure and specialist processing environments. These te...
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In Europe, a wide range of industrial and advanced technology solutions depend on specialist technologies that most people never see directly. Motion systems, industrial drives, precision gears, forming technologies, cryogenic systems, and specialist materials solutions all operate within large...
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The opening of a newly relocated and significantly enlarged Cyclo Centre in Pune, India, marks an important step for Sumitomo Drive Technologies and the wider Sumitomo Heavy Industries group, strengthening local capabilities in India and supporting closer collaboration with Europe and the EMEIA reg...
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Sumitomo SHI FW has signed a long-term licence agreement with VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, building on a collaboration that has been in place for more than 15 years. The agreement gives SHI FW exclusive rights to VTT’s syngas reformer technology. Used alongside SHI FW’s gas...
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