Tokyo, January 23, 2025 – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Aero Engines, Ltd. (registered office: Komaki City, Aichi Prefecture, MHIAEL), a group company of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), and Rolls-Royce plc held a ceremony at MHIAEL on 28 November, 2024 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of their partnership which was initiated with the 2004 signing of their first Risk & Revenue Sharing Partnership Agreement.
The ceremony was attended by Toshiyuki Hashi, Executive Vice President, President and CEO, Energy Systems, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Masanori Ushida, President & CEO, MHIAEL, Rob Watson, President - Civil Aerospace Rolls-Royce, Susumu Kaminaga, President of Rolls-Royce Japan and others. At the ceremony, executives from both companies gave speeches expressing gratitude for the long-standing collaboration and affirmed intent on further developing joint business opportunities and deepening the relationship for the future.
MHI/MHIAEL and Rolls-Royce began their collaboration with the Trent 1000 engine program that powers the Boeing 787 fleet in 2004, and have since expanded it to encompass engine programs that power four aircraft types: the Trent XWB-84 program that powers the Airbus A350-900 fleet in 2008, the Trent XWB-97 program that powers the Airbus A350-1000 fleet in 2013, and the Trent 7000 program that powers the Airbus A330neo fleet in 2015.