To whom it may concern:
April 25, 2017
Company name: Inabata & Co., Ltd.
Representative: Katsutaro Inabata, Director, President(Stock code: 8098, First Section of Tokyo Stock Exchange)
Inquiries:
Kenichi Yokota,Director, Managing Executive Officer(Tel 03-3639-6421)

Notice Concerning Acquisition of Shares
Inabata & Co., Ltd. (the “Company”) hereby announces that it today signed a share transfer agreement withPT Cayman II Limited, with which CITIC Capital Partners Japan Limited (“CITIC Capital Partners”; head
office: Hong Kong; location of Japan branch office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; representative: Hironobu Nakano)has a relationship regarding information provision, to purchase 9% of all shares issued by PT Cayman Limited(“PT Cayman”) that are held by CITIC Capital Partners. PT Cayman has eight wholly owned subsidiaries
including Polymatech Japan Co., Ltd. (“Polymatech”; location of head office: Saitama-city, Saitama; CEO:Jun Yamazaki), which manufactures and sells electronic components for automobiles and mobile devices. By
acquiring shares in PT Cayman, the Company seeks to expand its operations with a focus on the automotive
and electronics fields.
With regard to shares issued by PT Cayman that are not to be acquired by the Company (amounting to 91% ofissued shares), a share transfer agreement was today signed between PT Cayman II Limited and Sekisui
Chemical Co., Ltd. (“Sekisui Chemical”; location of head office: Osaka-city, Osaka; President andRepresentative Director: Teiji Koge).
This acquisition of shares by the Company does not correspond to the criteria requiring timely disclosure, but
the Company judges it to be useful information, and is therefore disclosing it voluntarily.
1. Background
In its mid-term business plan, “New Challenge 2016,” the final year for which is the fiscal year ending
March 2017, the Company designated the automotive field as a market with potential for growth andfocused its efforts on expanding business primarily in its chemicals and plastics operations. Also, theCompany will continue expanding business in the automotive field as a key field, in the new mid-termbusiness plan started in April 2017.
Sekisui Chemical commands a competitive advantage in the development and manufacture of highperformance processed plastic products, and it also designates automobiles and transportation as a strategicfield in which it is seeking to expand business. The Company’s management therefore believed that joint
investment with Sekisui Chemical would enable both companies’ competitive advantages to be leveraged
as an effective means of enhancing Polymatech’s corporate value.
2. Aim of acquiring shares
The Company aims to provide a stable supply of competitive raw materials to the Polymatech Group, andto promote sales of the Polymatech Group’s thermal conductive materials and products of other types byleveraging the Company’s worldwide sales network, in collaboration with Sekisui Chemical and1

Polymatech. The Company will use this share acquisition as a foothold to strengthen its relationships withSekisui Chemical and Polymatech, which command outstanding knowledge and technological capacity inthe automotive and electronics fields. This will enable it to make further progress in exploring new markets
and expanding business in these two fields.
3. Overview of the Polymatech Group(1) Company name
Polymatech Japan Co., Ltd.
(2) Location of head office
8-10-1 Tajima, Sakura-ku, Saitama-city, Saitama(3) Representative
Jun Yamazaki(4) Business activities
Manufacture and sale of automotive and electronics components(Main product lines: vibration damping materials for car audio devices,automotive switch components, connector parts, thermal conductivematerials, parts for wearable devices)(5) Paid-in capital¥990,050,000(6) Incorporated
November 2012(7) Main operating sites
Sales: In Japan—Head office, Nagoya
Overseas—United States, China, Thailand, Indonesia*1
Manufacturing: In Japan—Head office
Overseas—China, Thailand, Indonesia*1*1. Overseas sites are subsidiaries of PT Cayman, but are designated as Polymatech’s sales andmanufacturing sites.

(8) Recent business results

Net sales: ¥20.1 billion; operating income: ¥1.94 billion(for the fiscal year ended December 2016)*2*2. On a consolidated basis including main operating sites listed in (7) above(9) Website

http://www.polymatech.co.jp/english/

4. Acquisition priceTotal payment amount: Approx. ¥20.0 billion (planned)
The investment amount of the Company and Sekisui Chemical will be determined in accordance with therespective equity ratios of the two companies.
5. Schedule
April 25, 2017 Signing of share transfer agreement
August 31, 2017 Proposed date of share transfer
6. Impact on business results
The impact of the share transfer on the Company’s consolidated business results for the fiscal year ending
March 2018 is expected to be immaterial.
7. Additional information
The share purchase is subject to approval by the relevant authorities.

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