Reorganization of production structure to expand LIMEX business

We would like to inform you that we will be reorganizing our production bases in order to further expand our LIMEX business.

Since February 2015, Shiroishi Factory has functioned as a LIMEX demonstration plant, technology development and production base. During this time, we have launched a wide variety of LIMEX products onto the market, which have been adopted by many customers. In the future, in order to further expand LIMEX material globally, in consideration of the aging of the Shiroishi Factory building and limitations in production capacity, we will continue research activities as a demonstration plant, but will suspend production activities and consolidate domestic production at the Tohoku LIMEX Factory, which is our mass production base.