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Mitsui Chemicals — Investor Presentation (December 2024)

31 slides from Mitsui Chemicals's investor presentation, Dec 18, 2024

  1. Slide 1: Business Strategy Presentation

    Dec. 18, 2024 Business Strategy Presentation ⚫Life & Healthcare Solutions ⚫Basic & Green Materials

  2. Slide 2: Business Strategy Presentation: Life & Healthcare Solutions

    Business Strategy Presentation Life & Healthcare Solutions TANAKA Hisayoshi 田中 久義 Managing Executive Officer, Business Sector President, Life & Healthcare Solutions Business Sector Dec. 18, 2024

  3. Slide 3: Pursuing Business Portfolio Transformation

    Pursuing Business Portfolio Transformation 1 Life & Healthcare Solutions Dec. 18, 2024 Providing solutions that contribute to life, health and comfortable lifestyles as our first pillar of earnings Strategy to date Environmental changes & business situation Strategy for achieving our FY28 targets St

  4. Slide 4: Life & Healthcare Solutions Business Strategy

    2 Life & Healthcare Solutions Business Strategy Dec. 18, 2024 Strategy for achieving our FY28 targets Pursue steady growth for vision care & agrochemical products + actively invest to turn medical solutions* into a new pillar of earnings Medical Life care *Oral care/ orthopedics/ FY24 FY28 FY30 Well

  5. Slide 5: Lifecare Solutions: Vision Care

    3 Lifecare Solutions : Vision Care Dec. 18, 2024 Steady expansion by providing value throughout the value chain Ophthalmic Maintaining the top global market share for high- lens value chain refractive-index lens materials MR business Sales growth in key markets (U.S., China, India) Achieving continu

  6. Slide 6: Lifecare Solutions: Vision Care

    4 Lifecare Solutions : Vision Care Dec. 18, 2024 Expanding supply capabilities and Steadily harvesting growth markets new technologies to support business growth Increasing sales of high-refractive-index lenses Strengthening MR production capacity to in the Chinese market support business growth Inc

  7. Slide 7: Lifecare Solutions: Vision Care

    5 Lifecare Solutions : Vision Care Dec. 18, 2024 【ビジョンケア】 Strengthening our ability to develop high-performance photochromic lens materials and photochromic coatings Acquired photochromic dye technology from James Robinson Speciality Ingredients James Robinson Speciality Ingredients (U.K.) • A well-

  8. Slide 8: Lifecare Solutions: Nonwovens (Mitsui Chemicals Asahi Life Materials)

    Lifecare Solutions : 6 Nonwovens (Mitsui Chemicals Asahi Life Materials) Dec. 18, 2024 Bringing forward plans to achieve synergies from integration, in response to the worsening market environment Supply-demand balance of Integration synergies hygiene materials in Asia Japan China MAL (Japan) Set to

  9. Slide 9: Lifecare Solutions: Nonwovens (Mitsui Chemicals Asahi Life Materials)

    Lifecare Solutions : 7 Nonwovens (Mitsui Chemicals Asahi Life Materials) Dec. 18, 2024 Further strengthening industrial materials and achieving synergies from integration to deliver continuous growth in earnings Identifying priority segments in the industrial materials sector and Meltblown nonwovens

  10. Slide 10: Wellness Solutions: Agrochemicals

    8 Wellness Solutions: Agrochemicals Dec. 18, 2024 Continually expanding the agrochemicals business 180 Sales revenue (JPY bn) ■ Overseas Further expansion of growth drivers ■ Japan CAGR FY24-30 12% Expanding the regions covered by growth drivers and their scope of application 86 90 80 60 47 Driving

  11. Slide 11: Wellness Solutions: Agrochemicals

    9 Wellness Solutions: Agrochemicals Dec. 18, 2024 Continually expanding the agrochemicals business Developing our next growth drivers for Strengthening the biosolutions business beyond FY30 Speeding up efforts to strengthen R&D and production Fleshing out our pipeline with both chemical and biologic

  12. Slide 12: Medical Solutions: Oral Care

    10 Medical Solutions: Oral Care Dec. 18, 2024 Implementing measures for further growth that take the current business environment into consideration Focusing on a strategy Continuing to introduce Continuing to to strengthen Kulzer’s new products through explore tie-ups/M&A profitability Group tie-up

  13. Slide 13: Medical Solutions: Oral Care

    11 Medical Solutions: Oral Care Dec. 18, 2024 Measures for further growth ① Drastic strengthening of Kulzer’s profitability is progressing well ✓ Drastically strengthening Kulzer’s profitability Expanding share in the top 3 dental preservation markets (Europe, Japan, U.S.) *1 Focus sectors: Concentr

  14. Slide 14: Medical Solutions: Oral Care

    12 Medical Solutions: Oral Care Dec. 18, 2024 Measures for further growth ② Drastically strengthening Kulzer’s profitability Expanding share in the top 3 dental preservation markets (Europe, Japan, U.S.) *1 Focus sectors: ✓ Concentrating resources on developing Continuously introducing new products

  15. Slide 15: Medical Solutions: Orthopedics / Testing & Diagnosis

    13 Medical Solutions: Orthopedics / Testing & Diagnosis Dec. 18, 2024 Progress in expanding Business expansion the orthopedic surgery sector in the testing & diagnosis sector STEP 1 Expand groundbreaking diagnostic content Acquire partners Interaction among Partnerships Development & human resources

  16. Slide 16: Business Strategy Presentation: Basic & Green Materials

    Business Strategy Presentation Basic & Green Materials IZAWA Kazumasa 伊澤 一雅 Senior Managing Executive Officer Business Sector President, Basic & Green Materials Business Sector Dec. 18, 2024

  17. Slide 17: Basic & Green Materials Business Strategy

    1 Basic & Green Materials Business Strategy Dec. 18, 2024 Accomplishing business restructuring and leading our Group’s circular economy revolution Strategy for achieving our FY28 targets Second phase of ③ ② Selecting competitive derivatives ④ ⑥ Pursuit of green chemicals restructuring Cracker Capita

  18. Slide 18: Earnings Outlook for Fiscal 2024

    2 ①-1 Earnings Outlook for Fiscal 2024 Dec. 18, 2024 A return to profitability in fiscal 2024 had been in sight, based on generating effects from sales growth, price increases, cost reductions and restructuring. However, we are now set to see a deficit of 10 billion yen due to plant issues Factors c

  19. Slide 19: Response to Plant Issues: Eradicating High-Value Losses

    3 ①-2 Response to Plant Issues: Eradicating High-Value Losses Dec. 18, 2024 Pursuing the eradication of high-value losses by strengthening to combat plant issues, and by introducing more advanced technologies Thorough analysis of the root cause of the recent plant issues Non-financial indicator Mate

  20. Slide 20: Selection of Competitive Products

    ② Selection of Competitive Products Dec. 18, 2024 Selecting competitive derivatives to improve profits through restructuring and performance upgrading, and pursuing green chemicals Selection of Bolstering downstream businesses Existing competitive products businesses Examples of criteria and interna

  21. Slide 21: Promoting the Second Phase of Restructuring

    5 ③-1 Promoting the Second Phase of Restructuring Dec. 18, 2024 FY13~17 FY18~22 FY23~ Ideal state Securing stable earnings Reducing volatility Improving capital efficiency via restructuring AC-based IPA production Honshu Chemical 2023: AC-based IPA capacity boost starts Industry takeover bid Mulling

  22. Slide 22: Optimization of Phenol Business

    6 ③-2 Optimization of Phenol Business Dec. 18, 2024 ⚫ Second phase: Closing the Ichihara plant by FY2026, leaving a single PH plant in Japan, and ⚫ 第2幕として、26年度までに市原プラント停止で国内1基化、加えて海外事業のライトアセット検討 conducting a study into making overseas operations more asset-light ⚫ Forming ⚫ a highly capital-efficien

  23. Slide 23: Operating rate of crackers in Japan

    7 ④-1 Operating rate of crackers in Japan Dec. 18, 2024 Cracker margins and operating rates have seen a downturn, due partly to major new facilities and expansions in China. We will move ahead with restructuring based on the assumption that no recovery can be expected Reduction equivalent to 2-3 cra

  24. Slide 24: Cracker Collaboration and Restructuring

    8 ④ Cracker Collaboration and Restructuring Dec. 18, 2024 Pursuing carbon neutrality and capacity optimization by Chiba and West Japan collaborations to achieve advanced chemical complexes Technology development Chiba collaboration West Japan collaboration May: Bio-based hydrocarbons introduced Octo

  25. Slide 25: High-Performance Polyolefins Business

    9 ⑤ High-Performance Polyolefins Business Dec. 18, 2024 Expanding our range of eco-friendly and other high-performance, high value-added products Improving capital efficiency by completing the scrap-and-build program (second phase of restructuring) and further optimizing production Polyolefins busin

  26. Slide 26: High-Performance Polyurethane

    10 ⑤-2 High-Performance Polyurethane Dec. 18, 2024 We will deliver higher performance polyurethanes via ① performance upgrades based on the materials themselves (our proprietary catalysts) and ② performance upgrades based on formulations ◼ Polyurethanes are products obtained through the reaction of

  27. Slide 27: Performance Upgrading to Expand Product Ranges

    11 ⑤ Performance Upgrading to Expand Product Ranges Dec. 18, 2024 Expanding the range of high-performance products by improving performance and creating new capabilities in response to environmental regulations and diversifying customer needs High-end sofas Premium memory foam Premium-class seats on

  28. Slide 28: Pursuit of Green Chemicals

    12 ⑥ Pursuit of Green Chemicals Dec. 18, 2024 Allocating much of the business sector’s free cash flow to investments for a green transition, and creating recycled products and high-performance & essential products with added environmental value Cumulative cash flow plan of Achieving the goal of our

  29. Slide 29: Approach Going Forward

    13 Approach Going Forward Dec. 18, 2024 Aiming to achieve a recovery that takes profits above 30 billion yen in 2028 by steadily moving forward with restructuring and performance upgrading, as well as pursuing a recovery in profits and reducing volatility FY2024 FY2025 FY2026 FY2027 East Japan: Intr

  30. Slide 30: A global solutions company that leads change and contributes to a sustainable future

    A global solutions company that leads change and contributes to a sustainable future

  31. Slide 31: Chemistry for Sustainable World

    Chemistry for Sustainable World Challenge Diversity One Team Statements made in this document with respect to Mitsui Chemicals' current plans, estimates, strategies, and beliefs and other statements that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements about the future performance of Mitsui C

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