We would like to announce that our new material LIMEX has been recognized as Tokyo Order Certificate Product. Tokyo Trial Order system is that Tokyo Metropolitan Government officially purchases LIMEX products from TBM and evaluates the products.

We have been adopted as the first public offering of New Energy and Industrial Technology Development of ‘Strategic Energy Saving Technological Innovation Program’ in FY2009, which the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (NEDO) offered for public offering. We will report. The main objective is to further strengthen its unique and superior technology in LIMEX’s technology development (patented) and achieve energy conservation by promoting the spread of LIMEX products.

In 2015, SDG’s General Assembly was held by the United Nations, where more than 150 leaders of countries gathered. The agenda for 2030, “Transforming Our World for Sustainable Development” has been adopted by the agenda of the 2015 assembly. In order to achieve the goal of sustainable development, TBM and JCI have collaboratively launched a program called “Aquaction!”, regarding the social issues surrounding recycling. To begin with this collaboration, TBM and JCI will make the promise to strive in order to make Yokohama City more environmentally friendly throughout the use of LIMEX.

TBM has been selected as one of the five top companies to participate in the Innovation Showcase of Japan US Innovation Awards Program in 2017.
The event will be held at Stanford University on the 28th of July. Japan US-Innovation Awards are aiming for revitalization of innovation activities by selecting the innovational pioneering venture companies in Japan and US.
Successful and growing startup companies such as Tesla Motors Inc., Mercari, Inc. and LINE Corporation won the awards or was selected as Innovation Showcase companies previously. TBM will continue to strengthen our business by increasing business cases internally and internationally, receiving such honorable recognition.

TBM Co., Ltd. would like to announce that our company was named the winner of Energy & Sustainability Stevie® Award in the Product Design and Development category and Manufacturing Industries Stevie® Award in the Corporate Innovation category in the fourth annual Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards today.
　
The Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards are the only business

　
Stevie Awards (Based in Washington D.C. in the U.S.) are conferred in seven programs, and the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards are one of them.
　
Stevie Awards were founded in 2002. The Stevie Awards are widely considered to be the world’s premier business awards, conferring recognition for achievement in programs such as The International Business Awards for fifteen years.

TBM, JGC Corporation and National Industrial Clusters Development Program have reached a basic agreement on March 14, 2017 to explore the possibility of expanding LIMEX business into Saudi Arabia.
　
In accordance with this basic agreement, TBM will conduct a feasibility study of manufacturing LIMEX products in Saudi Arabia. And to begin with this agreement, TBM will strive to expand the LIMEX business globally.
　
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TBM and Kingsoft Inc. have signed a sales distribution agreement. From today, November 28th (Mon), users of Kingsoft’s cloud-based business card management system, CamCard Business, will be able to access special promotion pages and purchase LIMEX cards at promotional prices, directly from CamCard Business’s card data management screen. In this way, both companies aim to provide a completely integrated business card ordering service to CamCard Business users, encompassing the

TBM and Toppan Printing have signed a basic agreement for joint development work aimed at the expansion of applications of the environmental material LIMEX. Up until now, the companies have been looking into the potential business opportunities provided by LIMEX, by combining the technology behind TBM’s new material, with the printing technology, plus the marketing and sales power of Toppan Printing.

Going forward, based on this basic agreement, the two

We are pleased to announce that our company has been selected as the first annual winner of the Social Impact Award for Companies Achieving the Biggest Social Impact in the World (“Plug and play awards LIMEX the first annual Social Impact Award”), by one of the three biggest accelerators in Silicon Valley, United States, specializing in the growth and development of startup companies. We are also pleased to announce that LIMEX was awarded second prize, under the New Materials and Packaging Category, at the pitch event Plug and Play Expo, held on October 27th (US time). TBM was also awarded top position at the pitch event held by Plug and Play in July this year “Batch 2: Plug

We (TBM) concluded the fundamental contract of sales representation agreement with DENTSU INC. (Head Office at 1-8-1, Higashi-shimbashi, Minato-ku,
Tokyo 105-7001, Japan, Mr. Tadashi Ishii, President & CEO, and so forth : DENTSU). it has been implemented already by the product of LIMEX. We propose strengthening “LIMEX name cards” to enterprise. And not only name card but study for the sales & service collaboration for the “ADVERTISEMENTS COMPRISING PRODUCT” for future examination.

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We report that TBM established our first overseas subsidiary “Times Bridge Management Global Inc. in SAN FRANCISCO, USA with completed registration. We will accelerate our overseas marketing activity for USA and all over the world to proceed our global business development from now on.   Please see the press release as below :

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We announced that Koichi Kato who was the former senior vice-minister of justice and special advisor to the prime minister assumed our new auditor.

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We announced that Koji Sakamoto who is the president of Y.J. America assumed our new outside director.

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Through LIMEX ACTION we will visualize the savings of water, trees and petroleum that are our planet’s valuable resources so that we can see the social impact and the value of our business activities.  We will transmit how our company members are striving daily to better the resource issues and our enthusiasm to our LIMEX products.

URL: http://tb-m.com/action/

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TBM Company are going to hold a shared research that assessing the influence on the natural environment of LIMEX by using LCA that method of quantitatively evaluating the resources invested and environmental impact in the lifecycle of a product from its manufacture through to disposal, and the environmental effects on the earth and ecosystem that this results in with Professor Oki’s office at Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo.
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We held the location agreement signing ceremony at Tagajo City, Miyagi.
Selected for the “The National Subsidy for the Corporate Location Giving Job Creation in the Area Damaged by Tsunami and Nuclear Power” by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry at November 27,2015, we have decided to invest a total of 6.65 billion to build a mass-production plant by Dec. 2017.
This plant is supposed to produce 30,000 tons of LIMEX, and to recruit 60 local employees by the time the plant starts running, and the number of employees will grow to 80 in a few years. The location agreement will be made with Tagajo city prior to the construction of the plant, and we will secure 27,500m² area in San Mirai Tagajo Reconstruction Complex(Ippon-yanagi industrial Complex), a leading reconstruction base of the city.
In the future, with the newly established mass-production plant being a model plant, LIMEX technology will be exported oversea, especially to areas with water shortage. We will make great devotion for the world through creating new businesses and new jobs with our Japanese innovations, and for the solutions to water and oil issues in the world as well. For details, please refer to the Press Release. (Japanese version only)

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