Centralized Management of Technology and Talent by the Engineering Center

「In April 2025, the Company opened the Global Engineering Center, an integrated engineering hub for industrial gas plants and equipment, in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture.」

「The company established a new Global & Engineering Group to oversee engineering functions, an essential technological field for the supply of industrial gases, and centrally manage and promote overseas expansion, including governance and risk management. It also began strengthening key plants that manufacture gas supply facilities, further reinforcing the engineering structure underpinning the industrial gas business.」

「We will proceed with construction of the “Integrated Engineering Center (provisional name),” which will consolidate the development, design, fabrication, operation and maintenance departments for industrial gas engineering that had been dispersed across multiple sites.」

「In April, the company also established an engineering center with objectives similar to those of the Technology Strategy Center. It will centrally manage the technologies, know-how and human resources dispersed across the group as management resources, serve as a platform, develop engineering personnel, and pursue the transformation into a comprehensive engineering company and the cost competitiveness needed to compete globally.」