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Get to Know FURUNO

Making full use of our core technological expertise, namely, sensing, processing and communication,
FURUNO strives to bring about safety and efficiency in vessels’ operation, sustainable fishery with thoroughresource management, safe healthcare and the pleasant society filled with safety and peace of mind.

Consolidated Sales

120,000(Million yen)

120,000

83,066 82,255 84,783

91,325

Corporate
Vision Goal

Sales by Region

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Governance, Social and Environmental Reports

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Together with Society

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Financial and Non-financial Data

40,00020,0002019

2020

2030 (FY)2021 2022Since successfully commercializing the world’s
first Fish Finder in 1948, FURUNO has met
customer needs by developing and marketing
various types of navigation and communications
equipment. Today, we offer equipment to ensure
safety, peace of mind, and higher efficiency for awide variety of ships, from large merchantvessels, to fishing boats and recreational boats.

Overseas
64.3%
587

Kazuma Waimatsu

Marine Electronic Products Division General Manager

Japan
35.7%
325

Asia
21.0%
191
Europe26.6%
243

For Merchant Vessels
For safe and efficient navigation

Americas10.9%99

As part of our mission to contribute to safe and efficient navigation,
FURUNO offers a variety of navigation and communications equipment.
These products are designed for all types and sizes of merchantvessels, carrying both people and goods. With regards to newly-built
vessels, we have built up a track record and global networkcommensurate with our top market share. Leveraging these assets, ourbusiness spans from new vessel construction to upkeep and lifecycle
maintenance and retrofitting.

FURUNO’s Strengths

MarineFURUNO offers equipment for awide variety of ships, from largemerchant vessels, to fishingboats and recreational boats.

Land-based

FURUNO has
expanded into newfields, including
medical equipment and ICT devices, such as GPSand ITS products, to realize a comfortable society
with greater safety and peace of mind.

Global Share forMerchant Vessels

Others59%

Selected in the Global Niche Top Companies Selection 100 with
our radar for Merchant Vessels

FURUNO41%

FURUNO was recognized for its “41%* global market*

share with its Radar for Merchant Vessels,” “products*Radar for Merchant Vessels(data from 2019)

capabilities that enable FURUNO to offer acomprehensive range of electronic equipment
necessary for ship navigation,” “service capabilities

Global Share for
Fishing Vessels

Others51%• Related SDGs

(Unit: 100 million yen)

Others5.8%
5360,000

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Business Strategy

MarineBusiness<Business Vision> Achieve better safety, security and comfort to bring about asociety and sea navigation that considers the needs of people and theenvironment

80,000For Future GrowthBusiness Strategy

Business Overview

100,00002

FURUNO

49%*

that enable FURUNO to respond to requests fromCommunications

MedicalVehicle
Manage- Education
mentcustomers at any port without stopping their ships as
they sail around the world,” and “a global sales
network enabling customers to use its FURUNO withpeace of mind.”*Based on sales data fromother companies* based on the number of radars installed on vessels built at Japanese, Chinese and Korean shipyards, from January to December 2019.

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For Fishing Vessels

02

For Future Growth03

Business Strategy

04

Governance, Social and Environmental Reports

05

Together with Society

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Financial and Non-financial Data

For WorkboatsFor safe fishing and sustainable use of fisheryresources
Since our founding, FURUNO has offered electronic fishing equipment
to modernize and improve the efficiency of commercial fishing.
FURUNO is working to develop fisheries with resource management,
through the fishery consulting capability that we have previously
cultivated in countries around the world, and by providing products andservices that are both innovative and optimally suited for the market.

For the safety and security of maritime operations
FURUNO contributes to the safety, security, and comfort of its
customers while continuously providing innovative and reliable products
to users of government ships and port marine and work vessels.

For the safety of the largest high-speed
ferry in the United States
Seastreak’s Courageous is a high-speed ferry with the largest

Towards the Realization of Smart Fisherycapacity in the United States. Two large, award-winning
FURUNO radars are installed on board, and an intuitive andThe fishing industry is now in a transitional stage of change,

powerful new interface also simplifies operation. FURUNO

from intuition- and experience-based industry, to a more

contributes to the safety of passengers by providing

efficient industry based on data. FURUNO, with its new

high-quality marine electronics.

technologies, such as applications for utilizing past operational

FURUNO radars installed on Seastreak’s
Courageous ferrydata or 3D sonars, is helping to realize a smarter fishingindustry, one step further.
Fishing vessel with the latest Smart Bridge(Turkey)

For Maintenance Services
For Pleasure Boats
To ensure that products are useful to customers
For safe and comfortable boating

FURUNO provides world-class technical services and statutory
inspections in a timely and accurate manner, using its global service
network to ensure that its products perform and maintain their best
performance anytime, anywhere.

FURUNO offers high-quality products for users of all types ofrecreational boats, including sport fishing boats, sailboats, and yachts.
While continuing to supply innovative and highly reliable products to ourusers, we are expanding our efforts to enhance customer value.

Global service system for peace of mind
FURUNO brand alongside the largest North American pleasure boat market
The Merchant Vessel Division, which has customers all

Marine equipment sales for the pleasure boat market areover the world, has implemented an online system called

approximately ¥170 billion, with half of these sales being in theUnited States. Sport fishing boats also have professional scanning

services. SMS is a web-based database that stocks

Sonar and Fish Finder for targeting fish and Multibeam Sonar for

information such as product support history, failure

habitat monitoring. This is where the NavNet TZtouch series, aprevention measures, service progress and result reports.

high-end model for pleasure boats, is installed. It displays various30

FURUNO
EuropeFURUNOService Center

FURUNO
Singapore
South East Asia,
South Asia, Oceania

improve quality of operations.

Central andSouth America
Serv ce centers
Subs diaries supporting
merchant vessels
Serv ce agencies ormerchant vessels
Spare par s distribution
network

service, development, and quality departments to help
Targeting high-speed fishing withmulti-beam sonar

North America
FURUNO
U.S.A.

JapanMiddle East,Africa

Any problems or findings are fed back to the sales,

information making it an indispensable item for users who aspire
to high-end sport fishing.

North East Asia

Europe“SMS” (Service Management System) to provide efficient

FURUNO Service Network

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Industrial
Business

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Business Strategy

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Together with Society

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Financial and Non-financial Data• Related SDGs

Defense Equipment
Business• Related SDGs

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Using its core technologies in marine electronics, FURUNO iscommitted to R&D for the Ministry of Defense, to provide safety
and security for the people in Japan.

Based on technology developed for marine
electronic equipment, FURUNO has expanded
into new fields, including medical equipment andICT devices, such as GPS and ITS products. Our
aim is to realize a comfortable society withgreater safety and peace of mind.

Underwater acoustic technologies
The division has begun to study low power consumption,compactness, light weight, and strong resilience against
voltage of the transmitter and receiver, with a view to installing
UUVs or USVs.

Takeshi Miyazaki
Avionics and Defense Electronics Division
General Manager

Yukio Nobuhiro
System Products Division General Manager• Related SDGs

Wireless LAN Systems
Business

ETC2.0/ETC on-board equipment
These terminals are familiar at toll booths on expressways and are used toFURUNO provides wireless LAN access points and wirelessnetwork management systems for better Internet access. We arealso developing communication systems for the IoT field that canbe used in social infrastructures.

automatically pay the toll and pass through without having to stop the vehicle.
ETC2.0 on-board equipment linked to GPS can provide voice and otherinformation necessary for avoiding traffic congestion and safe driving.

11ah access point for IoT
gateway support

Vehicle access control service FLOWVISIEEE802.11ah-compliant access points cancommunicate over long distances with a radius ofapproximately 1km. It is expected to play a role insupporting social infrastructure.

Vehicles are reliably identified by hybrid authentication that combines ETC
authentication technology with camera-based vehicle number reading. The

Satoshi Nakatani
FURUNO SYSTEMS Co., Ltd. President

system also contributes to logistics DX as a solution to the “2024 problem”
facing the logistics industry by reducing truck drivers’ waiting time for cargo bydispatching vehicles on premises according to berth conditions at each location.
Vehicle management solutions

Dual-band GNSS receiver chip eRideOPUS 9

Disaster Preventionand Surveillance
Solutions Business• Related SDGs

FURUNO is providing system solutions to support everyday
safety and peace of mind by offering systems that predict
meteorological and geological events.

This receiver chip receives signals from GNSS satellites orbiting the earth andoutputs highly accurate position information. It is the world’s first automotive
receiver to achieve a positioning accuracy of 50 cm. The system is also highlyrobust, contributing to V2X and automated driving, which require accuracy andstability.

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Water resources managementFURUNO’s compact weather radar contributes toefficient storage and utilization of rainfall andmitigation of damage from flooding and urban
inundation through highly accurate precipitation
forecasting.

Takuo Kashiwa
System Solution Business Unit General Manager

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Product Quality

Our Technologies

To build a relationship of trust with our customers, all divisions are committed to providing higher
quality products and services by listening to customers around the world.

Challenge the Invisible
FURUNO looks thoroughly into the field and solves

see before, you can also see new possibilities. There isproblems with the appropriate technology. The world’s

no end to FURUNO’s challenge of the invisible.

first Fish Finder was born from this attitude.

FURUNO will continue to create encounters with theWhat FURUNO offers is not just a product for

invisible while staying close to people’s lives.

visualization. When you can see what you could not

Providing safety and security through quality control
Based on the philosophy that “the quality of ourproducts is created by the quality of our work,”
FURUNO aims to provide products and services thatsatisfy our customers. Specifically, FURUNO maintains

FURUNO’s Core Technologies

01and controls quality at every stage, from design,development, procurement, and production, based on
its quality management system (ISO 9001), andincorporating its own appropriate quality standards
and reliability evaluation methods at each development

Underwater
Acoustics

stage to ensure that its products are suitable even inharsh environments.
*Testing for electromagnetic interference that is known to affectother equipment and the human body

The distance from a school of fish isdetermined using the linear property ofultrasonic waves, by measuring theround-trip time when they are reflectedto their original location.

In-house EMC* testing environment

Maintaining and improving product quality

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The Miki Factory (Japan) has established a traceability

and inspection standards for each manufacturingsystem that clearly defines manufacturing methods

process and manages production and inspection
histories. In addition, the factory conducts strict quality

SatellitePositioning

checks, as well as prior inspections of local
manufacturers’ quality control systems and locallymanufactured products. In the manufacturing

Positioning is essential for ships navigating
the oceans. We also measure and use
highly accurate heading and the precise
time of day provided by GNSS satellites.

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Wireless
Communication
Radio waves are essential for maritime
communications. They are indispensable
for safe navigation by detecting obstacles
at sea as well as the movements of othervessels.

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processes, a high level of reliability is assured with100% inspection.

Environmental testing
FURUNO strives to further improve product quality byconducting various tests, such as electromagnetic
environment tests, vibration/shock tests, andtemperature/humidity tests.

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