C O R P O R AT EPROFILEDeveloping ABS resins
tailored to your unique needs.
This is the Techno-UMG mission.
We add the features required by today’s world.
Our position as leaders in the ABS resins sector gives us the ability todeliver pioneering, high-value-added ABS resins worldwide.
President & CEO, Techno-UMG Co., Ltd.

Kazumasa Yamawaki

At Techno-UMG, we keep pace with the significant changes that globalization continues to effect on society.
Techno-UMG combines the diverse DNA of around ten companies brought together in a series of mergers andacquisitions, including the technologies, know-how, and corporate cultures built up over many years by eachof these businesses. This is what allows us to create unique products and to continue to evolve as the leading
company in the sector, currently boasting a domestic market share of over 50% in ABS resins.
As global demand for ABS resins continues to grow by approximately 5% per year, we are expanding into theinternational market while maintaining our Japanese market share.
However, we are not pursuing a low-margin, high-turnover business that prioritizes quantity.
Instead, we are working toward high-value-added products created through our unique technologies anddevelopment capabilities.
For example, we are the first to achieve high-performance ABS resins with features inhibiting squeaking andheat build-up, providing excellent weather resistance to allow long-term use, increasing gripping power akin
to rubber, and more.
By combining new materials using our unique technologies, we also hope to create “XYZ” resins. These will
be a new generation of ABS resins surpassing the limits of today’s ABS resins, to be delivered to both Japan
What are ABS resins?
ABS resins are high-performance resins combining three components: acrylonitrile,butadiene, and styrene. Thanks to their superior rigidity and processability and the fact that
their surfaces can be attractively finished, they are used in the making of automobiles, homeelectrical appliances, office equipment, housing materials, and more. Techno-UMG supplies
ABS plastic pellets as a manufacturing material, with a variety of features corresponding tomanufacturers’ needs.

and the wider world.
Keeping our thinking flexible, we will continue to meet the challenges of our changing world.
We will continue to respond to our customers’ needs with products no other company can create.
You can count on us at Techno-UMG.
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Together with our customers, Techno-UMG isexpanding the possibilities of ABS resins as a manufact uring material.
With ABS resins at the heart of our products , we possess technological capacities that flexibly fulfill a range“Can we create a material that resists marks and fingerprints?”

of diverse needs, and use these to create products with unique properties that bring together multiple specialfeatures.
With a record that includes developing products that minimize squeaking when rubbing up against other resins
and others that reproduce the effect of paintwork without the paint, we provide users all over the world withhigh-value-added products with extremely consistent quality.

High-grade, high-performance ABS resins that work closely with the five senses.
Our product line-up offers a wide range, from products with high impact-resistance, excellent moldability and processability, and high heat-resistanceand rigidity to those with effective weather resistance.

HUSHLLOY®

PLATZON®

VIVILLOY®

An anti-squeak material

A plating material

A material with excellent color production

HUSHLLOY dramatically reduces the unpleasantsqueaking that we can hear when plastic components
rub together in items such as automobile dashboards,
air conditioning outlets, home electrical appliances, andeveryday household goods. What’s more, this effectdoes not decrease over time. This allows for a reduction
in costs for anti-squeaking measures included in
product design.

This plastic plating material has a variety of uses,
including in the making of radiator grilles and emblems
for automobiles. PLATZON ® demonstrates excellentadhesion and also provides an outstanding balance
between heat-resistance, moldability, processability,impact-resistance, and other features. We have
improved both productivity during the production
process and plating process yield, allowing us tocontribute to reducing environmental impacts.

This material produces vivid colors without the need toapply paint and has been adopted for use in the makingof side-view mirrors and spoilers for automobiles,
components for construction, and more. Despite being
unpainted, VIVILLOY ® closely reproduces the deep,bright colors of paintwork in a variety of complexapplications and configurations. Omitting the painting
process contributes to reducing both total costs andenvironmental impacts.

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“Can we make it sound luxurious?”“Can we reduce squeaking?”

Our ABS resins are used in all kinds of products that are part of everyday life.
■Automobiles
Side-view mirrors / car navigation systems / aerodynamic components / smart mirrors / LED lights / switches and instrument panels /head-up displays / power window switches■Electrical appliances and equipment
Refrigerators / heated bidet seats / home water purifiers / laptops / camcorders■Accommodation and construction materials
Plastic decking / artificial bamboo / plastic window frames / plastic-coated faucet levers■Offices
All-in-one devices (multifunction printers) / inkjet printers■OtherGame consoles / musical instruments (recorders, melodicas) / wristwatches

2“Can we achieve the desired color without paintwork?”“Can we create a material that’s pleasant to the touch?”3

Japan’s strengths on the global stage
Bringing together Japan’s strengths for the industry’s leading manufacturers.
Techno-UMG unites a variety of technologies, know-how, and markets built up by more than ten companies over many years in their various specialist
fields. Forming the fabric of Techno-UMG, it is this combination of diverse DNA that allows us to create unprecedented, high-value-added products andcompete not only in the Japanese market but as our nation’s representative ABS manufacturer on the world stage.

HistoryJapan Synthetic Rubber Co., Ltd. (now JSR Corporation)

History of Japanese corporations

Techno Polymer Co., Ltd.
established through joint
investment by Japan Synthetic R ubber(now JSR) and Mitsubishi Chemi cal CorporationJapan Synthetic Rubber (now JSR)
begins production of ABS resins

Techno Polymer acquires
Kaneka Corporation’s MUH(heat-resistant ABS resins) businessTechno Polymer becomeswholly-owned subsidiary of JSR
after stock transfer from Mitsubishi Chemical

Mitsubishi Monsanto Kasei Co.
Joint venture of Mitsubishi Kasei Corporation(a predecessor of Mitsubishi Chemical)
and the American Monsanto Company
begins production of AS resins in Yokkaichi

1961

The American Monsanto Company
withdraws capital from Mistubishi Monsanto Kasei
Mistubishi Monsanto Kasei incorporated into
Mitsubishi Chemical Synthetic Resins Division

Mistubishi Monsanto Kasei begins
production of ABS resins

1963

1966

1967

1988

1994

1996

Techno-UMG established through joint investment byJSR, Ube Industries, Ltd . (now UBE Corporation) andMitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation

2002

2005

2009

2018

Nitto Chemical Industry, Co.
Nitto Chemical Industry begins production
and sale of ABS resins

Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd. takes over
Nitto Chemical Industry’s
ABS resins business

Ube Saikon Co., Ltd.
Joint venture of Ube Industries (now UBE)
and BorgWarner Chemicals, Inc.
begins production of ABS resins

General Electric Company purchases
BorgWarner Chemicals

2014 PT. UMGI Plastics (Jakarta, Indonesia) established

UMG ABS takes overHitachi ChemicalCo., Ltd. ’s
ASA resins business2013 Techno Europe N.V. established2012 UMG ABS Shanghai, Ltd. Guangzhou Branch established
UMG ASIA (THAILAND) LTD. established2009 UMG ABS Shanghai, Ltd. established1995 Techno Polymer (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. estab lishedTechno Polymer (Thailand) established

History of local subsidiaries 1989 TECHNO POLYMER HONG KONG CO., LTD. establishedFulfilling our responsibility to build for the future.

——We are committed to a variety of social initiatives in the aim of creating a sustainable future.

4UMG ABS Ltd.
established throughjoint investment byUbe Saikon and
Mitsubishi Rayon

Working toward a carbon-free society. We are promoting
efforts aimed at achieving carbon neutrality.

We will work with all stakeholders to reduce GHG emissions
throughout the supply chain.

Calls for the transition to a carbon-free society
are mounting daily and responses to thisdemand are also gathering momentum. TechnoUMG is promoting projects that aim to achievecarbon neutrality by 2050. All departments andemployees at every level have come together tosupport our engagement with this issue and set
milestones. In order to reduce CO2 emissions
during production, we are looking into switchingfuel sources and using renewable energies.

To meet our customers’ needs, Techno UMG
are working to develop performance materials,
such as HUSHLLOY™ and VIVILLOY™, that
reduce customers’ processing operations .
We will also continue to explore ways toreduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions fromour raw materials and logistics processes, incommunication with our business partners.

2002 TECHNO POLYMERAMERICA, INC. established2000 Techno Polymer (Shanghai)Technical Development Co., Ltd. established2008 Techno Polymer Guangzhou Co. Ltd. established2007 UMG ABS Hong Kong, Ltd. established

Network Techno-UMG locations (as of April 2022)
EuropeASIAJAPANUSA

Techno-UMG
Europe GmbH
Düsseldorf, Germany

Techno-UMG
Guangzhou Co., Ltd.
Guangzhou, China

Techno-UMG Co., Ltd.
Techno-UMG Co., Ltd.

Techno-UMG America, Inc.
Cincinnati, USA

Techno-UMG
Shanghai Co., Ltd.
Shanghai, China
Techno-UMG
Hong Kong Co., Ltd.
Hong Kong, China

Tokyo Head Office
Nagoya OfficeOsaka Office
Ube Plant/Materials Research andDevelopment Center

Techno-UMG America, Inc.
Detroit Office
Detroit, USA

Otake Plant
Yokkaichi Plant/Product Research andDevelopment Center

Techno-UMG
Asia Co., Ltd.
Bangkok, Thailand

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