2015年版BUSINESS REPORT

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19Financial StatementsAnalysis of Business Performance in the Year under Review1. OverviewElectric Power IndustryAs Japan's nuclear power plants, whose operation was suspended following the Great East Japan Earthquake, still remain idle, the country must rely on thermal power stations. However, to ensure stable power supply, electric power companies have had to make capital investments, which had been kept to a minimum after the above-mentioned earthquake disaster.Particularly in the power plant engineering sector, centering on the transmission and transforma-tion of electric power, which experienced an especially large clampdown on capital investment, we won large-scale severe-accident countermeasures (major crisis countermeasures) projects that contributed to signicant growth of the entire electric power sector.Iron and Steel IndustryThe business improvement for iron and steel manufacturers has been accompanied by increasing demand at major steel plants to replace aging facilities for quality and productivity gains, and major order wins have resulted in signicant growth.Automobile IndustryAlthough no large-scale spot orders were won during the scal year under review, the results of the entire automotive eld improved as the result of the deployment of ne-tuned sales for testing and measuring equipment for R&D and production equipment automation.Plant Engineering IndustryAs the result of the promotion of differentiated competitive imported products for LNG plant projects mainly in Asia, signicant growth was achieved compared with the previous scal year.

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