Focus on Products for Touch Panels and Flat-Panel Displays

「To achieve the fiscal year ending March 2028 targets for revenue and operating profit, we are advancing our growth strategy with manufacturing DX, construction DX, semiconductors and electronic components, film solar cells, automotive films and weather-resistant products as priority areas.」

「Building on technologies cultivated over many years, we will accelerate our shift beyond conventional films toward high-value-added businesses. We will promote the development and supply of high-value-added products, including products using dissimilar substrates, high-functionality liquid products and environmentally considerate products. In addition to strengthening our response to existing markets, centered on communications, transportation and industrial applications, we will expand into growth markets such as healthcare, semiconductors and energy.」

「As one of the new industries served, high-value-added products used in automobiles performed steadily.」

「We worked to strengthen sales of high-value-added products, consolidate low-profitability products and reduce manufacturing costs through more efficient production operations. Sales of high-profitability products increased year on year, resulting in higher profit. ↑ Higher material and energy costs were reflected in selling prices to offset the increases.」

「Profit improved significantly against the initial earnings forecast because orders for high-value-added products for IoT-related products increased more than expected and we were able to reflect higher material prices and energy costs in selling prices.」

「Looking ahead to the second half of the fiscal year ending March 2024, we do not expect significant growth in demand for electronic devices, including smartphones. However, automotive products and products used in electronic-component manufacturing processes for 5G mobile terminals are showing signs of recovery. We expect markets, particularly in East Asia, to gradually return to normal, and our business performance is expected to stabilize accordingly.」

「As the group seeks to evolve toward IoT-related businesses, its products continue to be supplied primarily to the electronic and industrial materials sectors, and we will continue to develop our business in East Asian markets, where further expansion is expected. In addition, now that a global sales structure is in place, we will strengthen our expansion into the U.S. and European markets.」

「Against this business backdrop, the KIMOTO Group has formulated its Fifth Medium-Term Management Plan for the three years from the fiscal year ending March 2023 through the fiscal year ending March 2025, aiming to become an integrated manufacturing services company committed to the global environment and technology through the integration of film-centered physical manufacturing and digital-twin-centered non-physical manufacturing.」

「The KIMOTO Group has formulated its Fifth Medium-Term Management Plan for the three years from the fiscal year ending March 2023 through the fiscal year ending March 2025, aiming to become an integrated manufacturing services company committed to the global environment and technology through the integration of film-centered physical manufacturing and digital-twin-centered non-physical manufacturing.」

「The Film Business performed steadily and was on a recovery trend, centered on IoT-related products, automotive products and mobile applications.」

「Beginning this fiscal year, the Film Business has started operating process-control standards based on the German Association of the Automotive Industry’s process audit standard (VDA 6.3). It will also seek certification under the automotive industry’s international quality management system (IATF 16949), further improve quality, focus on sales of high-value-added products for the automotive industry and fifth-generation mobile communications systems (5G), and work to improve earnings.」

「In the fiscal year ending March 2021, the outlook for the economy remains uncertain due to the prolonged U.S.-China trade tensions and the decline in global production and consumption caused by the spread of COVID-19. The Film Business is promoting the development and production of distinctive products and the provision of services for the IoT market, which is expected to grow rapidly with the full-scale rollout of fifth-generation mobile communications systems (5G).」

「In the fiscal year ending March 2021, the outlook for the economy remains uncertain due to the prolonged U.S.-China trade tensions and the decline in global production and consumption caused by the spread of COVID-19. Nevertheless, we are promoting the development and production of distinctive products and the provision of services for the IoT market, which is expected to grow rapidly with the full-scale rollout of fifth-generation mobile communications systems (5G).」

「In the fiscal year ending March 2020, we will promote the development and production of distinctive, high-value-added products and the provision of services for markets undergoing rapid digitalization worldwide, in response to innovative technological change.」

「The KIMOTO Group’s products are being supplied primarily to the electronic and industrial materials sectors as the group seeks to evolve toward IoT-related businesses, and we will continue to develop our business in East Asian markets, where further expansion is expected. In addition, now that a global sales structure is in place, we will strengthen our expansion into the U.S. and European markets.」

「In the fiscal year ending March 2019, the third year of the Fourth Medium-Term Management Plan, “FPD to IoT,” we will promote the development and production of distinctive, high-value-added products and the provision of services for the global IoT market.」

「In the fiscal year ending March 2019, the third year of the Fourth Medium-Term Management Plan, “FPD to IoT,” we will promote the development and production of distinctive, high-value-added products and the provision of services for the global IoT market.」

「In the fiscal year ending March 2019, the third year of the Fourth Medium-Term Management Plan, “FPD to IoT,” we will promote the development and production of distinctive, high-value-added products and the provision of services for the global IoT market.」

「The KIMOTO Group’s products are being supplied primarily to the electronic and industrial materials sectors as the group seeks to evolve toward IoT-related businesses. We will continue to develop our business in East Asian markets, where further expansion is expected.」

「The KIMOTO Group aims to evolve from a business centered on flat-panel displays into an IoT-related company and has been implementing the Fourth Medium-Term Management Plan from the fiscal year ending March 2017 through the fiscal year ending March 2019. The business has been reorganized into three segments: the Film Business, Data Kitchen Business and Consulting Business.」

「The KIMOTO Group aims to evolve from a business centered on flat-panel displays into an IoT-related company and has been implementing the Fourth Medium-Term Management Plan from the fiscal year ending March 2017 through the fiscal year ending March 2019. The business has been reorganized into three segments: the Film Business, Data Kitchen Business and Consulting Business, with the aim of increasing value added and earnings power.」

「The KIMOTO Group aims to evolve from a business centered on flat-panel displays into an IoT-related company and will implement the Fourth Medium-Term Management Plan over three years from the fiscal year ending March 2017 through the fiscal year ending March 2019. We have reorganized the business into three segments: the Film Business, Data Kitchen Business and Consulting Business, with the aim of developing and selling high-value-added products and improving profitability.」

「We have responded flexibly to the changing environment surrounding the Company. To grow into a stable, sustainable company that will continue for 100 years in an increasingly changing environment, we aim to evolve from a business centered on flat-panel displays into an IoT-related company and will implement the Fourth Medium-Term Management Plan over three years from the fiscal year ending March 2017 through the fiscal year ending March 2019.」

「To grow into a stable, sustainable company that will continue for 100 years, the KIMOTO Group aims to evolve from a business centered on flat-panel displays into an IoT-related company and will implement the Fourth Medium-Term Management Plan over three years from the fiscal year ending March 2017 through the fiscal year ending March 2019.」

「With the aim of evolving from a business centered on flat-panel displays into an IoT-related company, we will implement the Fourth Medium-Term Management Plan over three years from the fiscal year ending March 2017 through the fiscal year ending March 2019.」

「The KIMOTO Group has positioned products for flat-panel displays, centered on hard-coat films for touch panels, as strategic products and has focused on their development and sales.」