| Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. is a Japanese international corporation with headquarters in both Chūō-ku, Kobe and Minato-ku, Tokyo. The company was founded on October 15, 1896 by Shozo Kawasaki. Kawasaki and its many subsidiaries focus is on manufacturing: ships, trains, tractors, construction equipment, plant automation, industrial robotics, small engines, and aerospace equipment (including military aircraft). Kawasaki also subcontracts work on jet aircraft and has done so for Boeing, Embraer, and Bombardier. Kawasaki has a reputation as an advanced designer of powerful engines. It is most well known in the United States for producing a consumer line of motorcycles, ATVs and watercraft (-see Kawasaki Motorcycles). http://www.khi.co.jp/index_e.html |