Toagosei Co., Ltd. 11 Our adhesives are extensively used in the manufacture of flexible printed circuit boards. PES hot melt adhesives are used for smart cards. a slight year-on-year increase owing to the impact of the economic downturn in the latter half of the term. Overseas, we launched new consumer-use instant adhesives on the U.S. market to further reinforce the Krazy Glue brand, but overall sales declined slightly due to the global economic slowdown. As a result of the above, both sales and earnings edged down from the previous year’s level. UV-Curable Resins . Efforts focus on FPD applications, but sales decline owing to economic downturn We continued to focus our marketing of Aronix on applications to plastic coatings and the flat panel display market. Sales were steady as predicted up to the holding of the Beijing Olympics, both in Japan and overseas, particularly in China and Taiwan. Thereafter, the economic downturn took hold, and sales on a consolidated basis recorded a year-on-year decline. Tasks and Prospects . Adhesives marketing to focus on automotive and electronic applications In the field of consumer-use adhesives for the domestic market, Toagosei will be launching new products and conducting promotional activities to raise the market profile of the Aron Alpha brand. In industrial-use adhesives, the focus will be on UV-curable and reactive adhesives, and we will continue to make development efforts to widen these products’ sphere of application in the automotive components and electronic materials sectors. Our marketing focus will be on top-priority products, areas of application, and customers, and we aim to speed up development by harnessing synergies between our adhesives and UV-curable resin operations. We will make further progress in developing our adhesive processing operations, and hope to grow them into a profitable value-added business in the near future. Cyanoacrylate Instant Adhesives: For bonding rubber, plastic, metal, and wood in industrial and consumer uses Heat-resistant adhesives: For bonding metal and ceramics used in high-temperature environments Hot melt adhesives: For bonding plastics, metals, and textiles For bonding difficult-to-bond plastics like polyethylene, polypropylene polyester, and nylon Special Monomers and Oligomers: Raw material for paints, printing inks, coatings, and adhesives Silver-based antimicrobial agents: For kitchen and bathroom equipment, building materials, and textiles Hexachlorodisilane (HCD): For silicon nitride films used in semiconductors Main Products and Application Instant Krazy Glue