Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

Turkey is reassessing its major partner for the country's second nuclear plant in the Black Sea province of Sinop, Energy Minister Fatih Dönmez said on Jan. 19.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has announced that a new factory of its Turkish air conditioning unit, Mitsubishi Electric Air Conditioning Systems Manufacturing Turkey Joint Stock Company, will go online as of Dec. 12.

All leading automobile companies in Japan have used aluminum products manufactured by Kobe Steel, which admitted late last week that it has falsified data on the strength and other characteristics of metal products, Kyodo reports of TASS.

Russian nuclear group Rosatom would be interested in taking an equity stake in French peer Areva if the French government allows it, a top Rosatom executive said on Dec. 27.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd would consider investing in nuclear company Areva , which is being bailed out by the French government, the president of the Japanese company told the Asahi newspaper.

?We will no doubt be consulted (by Areva). Because of our long relationship and, if cooperation is sought, we would consider it seriously,? Shunichi Miyanaga said in an interview.

Parliament?s General Assembly accepted in the early hours of April 1 an international agreement between Turkey and Japan for the construction of Turkey?s second planned nuclear plant.
 
With the approval, the legal framework for the construction of the plant has been laid.