Hitachi Metals, a major metal maker, revealed that fraud has been confirmed for aircraft and energy-related products in addition to automobile parts that have been discovered so far due to the problem of product quality assurance fraud. Did.
According to the announcement, Hitachi Metals will rewrite the inspection results and methods different from the specifications agreed with the customer regarding the quality inspection of special steel used in aircraft and energy related products manufactured at factories in Shimane and Saitama prefectures. It means that we were inspecting at.
Regarding quality inspection, it was announced last year that fraud was revealed in special steel used for automobile parts, and that inspection fraud has been repeated since the 1980s.
The product fraud revealed this time was a continuous investigation, and when combined with the amount already announced, it was said that it had delivered products with fraudulent inspection to 1952 companies, which is more than 10% of customers. Explains.
At the financial results briefing, Hitachi Metals CFO Hiroaki Nishioka apologized once again for causing a great deal of inconvenience and concern to customers, shareholders and other related parties. bottom.