Hitachi Construction Machinery : to use Amazon Leo for Fast, Reliable Satellite Connectivity at Construction Sites in Europe

Tokyo, June 24, 2026 - Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. (President and Executive Officer: Masafumi Senzaki; "Hitachi Construction Machinery") today announced it has signed an agreement with Amazon Leo, Amazon's low-orbit satellite broadband network.

Hitachi Construction Machinery is participating in the Amazon Leo enterprise preview, making it the first construction machinery manufacturer to test the service.

Hitachi Construction Machinery operates a global service network of approximately 300 sales agents and about 9,000 mechanics, constantly collecting machine operation and maintenance data through its "Global e-Service" platform running on Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. Its ConSite service solution uses this data to help customers reduce machine downtime and lower life cycle costs.

Today, mechanics access ConSite tools via mobile communication networks-but at remote construction sites in mountainous areas, islands, coastal regions, and disaster zones, connectivity can be unreliable or unavailable. This can limit the company's ability to deliver consistent, high-quality service to every customer in these specific environments.

Under this agreement, Hitachi Construction Machinery will deploy portable Amazon Leo antennas at construction sites in the United Kingdom and Germany beginning in 2026, using satellite connectivity for critical service workflows including machine health reports, downloading service manuals in the field, receiving real-time maintenance alerts and uploading inspection reports.

Amazon Leo connectivity enables customers to access their existing cloud resources, including Hitachi Construction Machinery's Global e-Service data infrastructure hosted on AWS. Amazon's compact antennas are designed to perform in harsh environments-rain, snow, and dust-making them well suited for construction sites.

By using reliable, high-speed connectivity independent of mobile networks, Hitachi Construction Machinery aims to uniformize service quality globally and explore the foundation for future AI-driven predictive maintenance across all connected sites.

"Our mission is to maximize customers' machine uptime while minimizing total cost of ownership for our customers. Signing this agreement with Amazon Leo represents a major step toward verifying our vision of connecting all construction sites through communication-regardless of location. With reliable satellite connectivity, we can deliver high-quality ConSite services at every job site in the world and, in the future, enable real-time AI analysis of operation data to further benefit our customers."

Amazon Leo is Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers beyond the reach of existing networks, from individual households and small businesses to large enterprise and government customers-and anyone in between. Amazon Leo is powered by an initial constellation of more than 3,000 satellites, connected to a secure, global network of ground gateway antennas and dedicated fiber, and includes a lineup of compact, high-performance antennas-Leo Nano, Leo Pro, and Leo Ultra-that communicate with satellites passing overhead. The entire system is designed, built, and operated in-house at Amazon, and aims to connect tens of millions of customers around the world.

Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. (TSE: 6305), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a construction machinery manufacturer that globally deploys development, manufacturing, sales, and service businesses for its hydraulic excavators, wheel loaders, compaction equipment, and mining machinery, etc. In addition to its new machinery business, Hitachi Construction Machinery is expanding its "value chain businesses" of parts and services, remanufacturing (parts and machines), rentals, and used equipment as it continues to grow together with customers as a solutions provider that offers innovative solutions to customers. With roughly 25,000 employees around the world, the consolidated sales revenue for Hitachi Construction Machinery was 1,405.5 billion yen for fiscal year 2025 (ended March 2026) with an overseas sales revenue ratio of 84%. For more details, please see the company's website.

The company plans to change its trade name to "LANDCROS Corporation" and its corporate brand to "LANDCROS" on April 1, 2027.