Corporate History

Fuji Electric continues to evolve in step with the times 1991 • Laid down 21st Century Vision to stipulate the corporate and with society, with technology as our driving force. mission and guiding principles 2002 • Started operation of the Introduced group brands Yamanashi factory 1992 Corporate History Laid down Basic Policies of the Fuji Electric on Environment 2003 1923 Protection Changed name owing to 2011 Fuji Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd. shift to pure holding • Establishment of GE Fuji Established 1994 company system Meter Co., Ltd. (joint venture Established as a capital and technology Established Fuji Electric Frontier Fuji Electric Holdings with General Electric) alliance between Furukawa 1935 Co., Ltd. (Preferential affiliate Co., Ltd. Electric Co., Ltd. and German Established Fuji Tsushinki Manufacturing Co., company) • Changed company AG. The result is a company with Ltd. (present Limited) by spinning off the Began promoting employment for 2006 name: characteristics inherited from industry Telephone Department disabled persons Started operation of solar cell Fuji Electric Co., Ltd. in both countries. factory in Kumamoto (Merger of Fuji Electric 1996 Prefecture Holdings Co., Ltd. with Fuji 1942 1961 1980 Fuji Electric Construction Co., Electric Systems Co., Ltd.) Started operation of the Matsumoto factory Started operation of the Chiba 1973 Established Fuji Electric Started operation of the Ltd. (current Fuji Furukawa 2008 2010 factory Corporate Research and Engineering & Construction Co., Fuji Electric Systems Company Otawara factory • Established METAWATER Co., 2012 Development Ltd. Ltd.) listed on the Second Co., Ltd. merged emblem, 1943 Ltd. (joint venture with NGK Introduced new brand Started operation of the Fukiage and Toyoda uninterruptible power FS mark 1968 Section of the Tokyo Stock Insulators, Ltd.) statements factories Merged with Kawasaki Denki 1978 supply (UPS) Established its symbol mark 1984 Exchange • Fuji Electric FA Components & 1924 Seizo Co., Ltd. and commenced Changed company Systems Co., Ltd. merged operations with Started operation of the Kawasaki 1944 operations at the Kobe and name to Fuji Electric 1999 operations with Schneider TDK–Lambda factory Started operation of the Mie factory Suzuka factories Co., Ltd. Introduced the company system Electric Japan Ltd. Corporation 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010

1924 1930 1954 1965 1971 1981 1991 2002 2010 2011 Started manufacturing Launched • Started ultra-compact Electric propulsion system • Developed centralized Developed and commenced Developed 2.5-inch magnetic Established biogas-powered • Developed a new High-Voltage electrical machinery mercury-vapor magnet switch fitted to Antarctic monitoring and control manufacture of electric disks fuel cell power generation three-level converter Inverter with rectifier production production exploration vessel Fuji systems for power utility propulsion system for system circuit and a new Water-Cooling 1925 companies ice-breaking vessel Shirase 1992 Delivered Japan’s first fuel cell three-level power System “FRENIC Started transformer • Began volume production First computerized control • Began development of solar cogeneration system (incorporating module, realizing highly 4800VM5” went production of selenium rectifiers system in Japan, using the 1982 cells formed on film substrates two 100kW fuel cells) powered by efficient electric power on sale In response to exploding FACOM-R mini-computer Developed 30kW phosphoric • Completed an ozone-based digested sewage sludge gas. conversion 1927 demand for televisions • Started hybrid IC acid fuel cell water treatment system Began electric fan and radios, Fuji Electric manufacture 2006 production began volume production 1966 1985 1993 Commenced mass of selenium rectifiers, Tokai nuclear power 1973 • 1st generation mini UPS • Delivered the first generator production of film 1933 electronic components station began operation Began production of selenium “M-UPS Series” launched (600MW output) of Noshiro substrate amorphous Started expansion circuit that convert alternating current (AC) to Facility equipped with nuclear photoconductive drums Power Station solar cells • 140MW geothermal breaker production direct current (DC). The company pressure vessels and other • Completed a ski lift gate Began mass producing flexible power plant, the largest soon took an 80%-90% share of the components made by Fuji Electric system amorphous single-unit capacity in domestic selenium rectifier market. 1976 2012 1936 Started manufacturing solar cells the world, started Development of Built its first 1994 based on operation industrial general-purpose plastic film hydraulic turbine, 1955 inverters Successful launch of Japan’s inverter • Started manufacturing first HII rocket substrate. 4,850HP Francis First in the industry to develop equipped with Turbine juicers The launch vehicle’s power control general-purpose inverters. Led unit was fitted with an aerospace next-generation Sales of juicers took off from the market in creating smaller, 2007 • power transistor made by Fuji power around 1961 on the back of more responsive and functional Released the Started mass production nationwide health programmable logic Electric. semiconductor components, resulting in their of perpendicular SiC-SBD, a first movement (campaign). 1967 adoption in a range of fields due controller magnetic recording Developed earth-leakage circuit in Japan to their energy-saving “MICREX-F Series” 1995 media • High-speed electric • Full-scale foray into thermal power breakers Successful field experiment of Full-scale mass production of characteristics. the world’s first vehicle battery charger plant business world’s largest capacity 2.5-inch 1937 Signed a contract with Siemens AG linear-motor-driven vertical went on sale Began watt-hour meter 1969 transport systems glass substrate media production for technology transfer of the steam Began production of (160GB/disk), turbine manufacturing. vending machines 3.5-inch Subsequently delivered the first 1996 aluminium super-critical, variable pressure Used know-how as a vendor of refrigerated milk showcases to move Order won substrate media turbine in Japan, which was one of • Developed 1,000kW for IGBT main the largest in the country at the into vending machines. Delivered Developed transistor inverter (334GB/disk). 230 beverage vending machines to FRENIC 5000G phosphoric acid fuel cell conversion time. This move to import European devices used technology marked a change of tack the 1970 Osaka 2009 • Delivered micro-grid system in a domestic power generation World Exposition, 1987 in electric railways High-voltage drop/dip 1978 (world’s first large-capacity flat to outlying islands of Kyushu market dominated by US prompting the Began research into • New IC chip for auto-focus compensator using a IGBT) and Okinawa, and took part in technology. wider spread of amorphous solar cells cameras completed lithium-ion capacitor installation and domestically • Developed IGBT module released. verification testing Technology and made vending 1998 The world’s first embedded 1958 Delivered 100kW phosphoric Delivered the first electronic machines. lithium-ion capacitor realized • 1989 acid fuel cell Development of Product History instrumentation system to a water Realization of EIC integrated environmental load reduction in a next-generation treatment plant in Japan control system 1999 significantly smaller package. SiC module power 1959 New mini-UPS semiconductor Began manufacturing silicon diodes “J-Series” launched 25 FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD. Corporate Profile 2012 26