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Sameer Tikoo appointed Chief Growth Officer at Hitachi Americas. Hitachi Americas has appointed Sameer Tikoo as Chief Growth Officer (CGO), strengthening its executive leadership as the company continues to expand its digital transformation, AI, and industrial technology initiatives across the Americas. In his new role, Tikoo will lead growth strategy, business development, and market expansion efforts, working across Hitachi's diverse portfolio to accelerate customer engagement and strategic partnerships. His appointment reflects the increasing importance of growth leadership as technology companies align innovation with evolving enterprise and industry needs. Tikoo brings extensive experience in enterprise technology, digital engineering, and business transformation. Throughout his career, he has held leadership roles focused on driving growth, building strategic client relationships, and helping organizations leverage emerging technologies to improve operational performance. His background in digital services and enterprise consulting positions him to support Hitachi Americas' continued expansion across key industry sectors. The appointment comes at a time when enterprises are accelerating investments in artificial intelligence, cloud computing, industrial automation, and data-driven business models. Organizations across manufacturing, energy, healthcare, transportation, and financial services are increasingly seeking integrated technology solutions that combine digital innovation with operational efficiency. For global technology companies, the role of Chief Growth Officer has become increasingly strategic. Beyond revenue generation, CGOs are responsible for identifying new market opportunities, strengthening customer relationships, expanding partner ecosystems, and aligning business strategy with long-term innovation goals. Leadership appointments such as this reflect the continued evolution of the enterprise technology landscape. As AI and digital transformation reshape industries, experienced growth leaders will play a vital role in helping organizations scale innovation, expand into new markets, and create sustainable business value for customers across the Americas. MarTech360 Bureau

Hitachi, MOL and JAL launch Japan ocean carbon capture pilot. 4 August 2026 Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Hitachi, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and Japan Airlines (JAL) have signed a memorandum of understanding to conduct Japan's first pilot test of Direct Ocean Capture technology, targeting a potential domestic source of carbon removal for hard to abate transport sectors. The pilot will take place on Kume Island in Okinawa Prefecture and will test technology designed to separate and capture carbon dioxide dissolved in seawater. The companies plan to assess whether the system can operate effectively using local seawater while gathering data on operational requirements and environmental impacts. The project also creates a potential link between ocean based carbon removal and future synthetic fuel production. Hitachi, MOL and JAL said recovered CO2 could ultimately be used as a feedstock for fuels including E SAF. Containerized system to test seawater capture. The pilot will use containerized equipment installed on land on Kume Island. Seawater will be drawn into the system, where dissolved CO2 will be separated and captured. The companies selected Kume Island partly because it already hosts ocean research and energy projects, including Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion. The concentration of marine research expertise and infrastructure provides a base for testing how Direct Ocean Capture, or DOC, could operate under Japanese coastal conditions. The partners aim to establish foundational data that could support deployment at other locations along Japan's coastline. That could be significant for shipping and aviation. Both sectors face substantial technical challenges in eliminating emissions because many operations cannot readily be electrified using currently available technology. Carbon removal could therefore complement direct emission reductions, particularly where residual emissions remain difficult or expensive to eliminate. Ocean becomes part of carbon removal equation. DOC approaches the carbon removal problem differently from technologies that extract CO2 directly from ambient air. Seawater naturally absorbs atmospheric carbon dioxide until an equilibrium is reached between concentrations in the ocean and atmosphere. Removing dissolved CO2 from seawater alters that balance, allowing the treated water to absorb additional CO2 from the atmosphere. The process effectively uses the ocean as an intermediary between atmospheric carbon and the capture equipment. According to the companies, the concentration of CO2 in seawater is approximately 100 to 150 times higher than in the atmosphere. That difference could potentially allow DOC systems to capture carbon with lower energy consumption and costs than some alternative engineered removal technologies. The pilot will provide practical evidence on whether those potential advantages translate into operations under Japanese conditions. Captura technology moves toward Japan deployment. Hitachi, MOL and JAL have each invested in US based DOC technology developer Captura Corp. through their respective investment subsidiaries and other channels. The companies have subsequently worked together to examine how Captura's technology could be deployed in Japan, combining their experience across technology, shipping and aviation. The Kume Island project represents the first physical step in that effort. Beyond demonstrating the capture process itself, the partners intend to examine how recovered CO2 could be used locally. They will also explore environmental education and promotional activities associated with the pilot as part of a broader effort to develop ocean related economic activity. The longer term ambition is to establish what the companies describe as an island based, domestically self sufficient carbon economy. Shipping and aviation seek domestic carbon solutions. The involvement of MOL and JAL places the project directly within two transport sectors facing particularly difficult decarbonisation pathways. Shipping is examining alternatives including methanol, ammonia, biofuels, synthetic fuels and efficiency technologies, while aviation is increasingly focused on sustainable aviation fuel and synthetic alternatives. Many of these pathways require either sustainable carbon feedstocks or credible mechanisms for addressing residual emissions. The Japanese partners also see a strategic argument for developing carbon removal capacity domestically. Demand for engineered carbon removal is expected to increase as companies pursue decarbonisation targets, potentially increasing competition for international carbon credits. Establishing domestic removal technology could reduce dependence on overseas credits and provide greater control over future carbon costs. The Kume Island pilot could also test whether captured carbon can become an industrial input rather than simply a material requiring permanent storage. Hitachi, MOL and JAL said the recovered CO2 could eventually serve as a feedstock for synthetic fuels such as E SAF. Such a system would connect ocean carbon capture with fuel production for sectors that are themselves seeking alternatives to conventional fossil fuels. The immediate focus, however, remains the performance of the containerized pilot equipment and its interaction with the surrounding marine environment. Data collected on Kume Island will be used to evaluate operational challenges, environmental effects and the feasibility of expanding DOC technology to other coastal locations in Japan. "Breakbulk.News publishes editorial content, including news, features and press releases supplied by third-party companies, institutions and PR agencies. 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Hitachi, MOL and JAL launch Japan's first ocean-based CO[2] capture pilot. Published: August 4, 2026 Reading time: 1 min. Hitachi, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), and JAL have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to conduct Japan's first pilot test on Kume Island, Okinawa Prefecture, utilizing Direct Ocean Capture (DOC) - a technology that directly separates and captures CO2 dissolved in seawater. In this pilot test, the three companies aim to confirm the applicability of DOC technology using seawater from around Kume Island, and obtain foundational data on operational challenges and environmental impacts for deployment along Japan's coast. Specifically, the test will use containerized pilot equipment installed on land on Kume Island, taking in seawater to separate CO2. In addition to this initiative, Kume Island hosts cutting-edge pilot projects that leverage its location, such as Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC). With a concentration of expertise and talent in ocean research, the island offers an optimal environment for conducting Japan's first DOC pilot test. Based on the knowledge gained from this project, the three companies will explore potential applications and expansion of DOC technology - including local utilization of captured CO2, as well as promotional and environmental education initiatives centered on this pilot test - to contribute to the creation of new ocean-based value (the Blue Economy). In "hard-to-abate" sectors such as shipping and aviation, where electrification alone is difficult and emissions are hard to reduce, offsetting emissions has become a key challenge alongside corporate reduction efforts. As demand continues to grow, expectations are rising for CO2 removal technologies as a key means to address this, driving the need to establish technologies that directly remove CO2 through engineered approaches. Establishing a domestic ecosystem is also becoming increasingly important from the perspective of curbing the future cost of procuring carbon credits from overseas. The three companies have invested in Captura Corp., a U.S.-based DOC technology developer, through their respective investment subsidiaries and other channels, and have been jointly exploring a domestic pilot test toward the deployment of Captura's technology in Japan by combining the expertise of each company. The companies position this pilot test as a first step toward building an island-based, domestically self-sufficient carbon economy in which the recovered CO2 is ultimately utilized as a feedstock for synthetic fuels such as E-SAF.