Business GuideP h i l o s o p h y. . .

Create the value to advance into tomorrowby envisioning the future.
People’s lives, which are the basis of both the better creation of society and thesolution for global warmings. Our mission is to bring people more happinessand a greater sense of satisfaction in order to enrich their daily lives. We havean all-in-one system and global network that includes procuring raw materials,
R&D, planning, production and distribution and furthermore aim to be an influential corporation that creates various values as a manufacturer and trading
company not only through all the materials and products of Unitika Group withits 130-year history but also dynamic solutions and footwork. For people’s life,
society and the global environment, from today to tomorrow and beyond, ourpassion for creativity and our solidarity are the sources of our vitality.

1Our “For You—4U”
F o r p e o p l e ’s l iv es. F o r a b et t er so ci et y.
Through our proprietar y technology and net works with customers,
we contribute to people’s lives and the environment,
and provide products and ser vices that resonate with each individual customer.
We promise the four “Us” to achieve the goal and that is our motto: “For You”.

Unique

Unite

Creating entirely new productswith unique technologies

Deepening ties with customers andbuilding trust relationships

UsefulUniversal

Truly being useful to the world

Disseminating broadly to the world2

Activities...

Creating new value through our concerted capabilities, covering everythingfrom materials development, planning, and production, to distribution

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Makes Quality Valuefor You
Value chain
Finance

Risk management

Marketing

Logistics

Textile & ApparelBusiness

Sales

Production
Industrial Materials
Business

Planning
GlobalBusiness

R&D

Ladies & Men’s

Industrial Materials

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Sports & Innerwear

Plastics

Uniform

LifestyleTextiles and apparel, industrial materials,
original solutions.
Leveraging synergies to move dynamically into new territory.
The lines of business we are engaged in can be roughly divided
into textiles and apparel, and industrial materials.
In the textiles and apparel field, we respond to customer needs through an all-in-one system thatcovers everything from ﬁlament and spun, textiles, secondary products, and distribution.
We create “Japan-quality” high value-added products in coordination with overseas production centers.
In the industrial materials field, we leverage our dynamic network as a manufacturer and trading company.
We provide original materials for all business types, from lifestyle-related to industry-related.
Moreover, in both fields, we mobilize our concerted capabilities in each of our departments throughmutual collaboration with other departments.
We will capitalize on the resulting synergies to construct value chains anddevelop both our home market of Japan and with an eye toward the whole world in our global expansion.

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Development...

Research and Development capabilities
to capture the present and illuminate the future.
Creating originality as a manufacturer and trading company.
As a manufacturer, we have R&D capabilities as the wellspring of our originality.
We focus mainly on all manner of research and development related to textiles,
starting from ﬁlament and including spun yarn, textured yarn, weaving/knitting, dyeing, and ﬁnishing.
We support an all-in-one system that undertakes everything fromthe materials stage to the product stage, transcending field of application.

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Our Strength and Pride in“Creative Abilities”
If there is no product to fulfill a customer’ s needs, wewill create it. This is our great strength. As a trading

Varied Technical Capabilities
Starting with Textiles

company with manufacturing functionalit y, we listen
directly to customers’ opinions and develop new

At the foundation of our technic al development, inher itedp r o duc t s t hr o u gh c l o s e c o m muni c at i o n, as we ll asfrom the exper tise of the Unitika Group with its histor y ofenhancing our existing products. Or we will propose

more than 13 0 year s, is our p olymer tec hnolo gy st ar tingthe seeds born from our daily R&D activities in lightfrom our textile development activities. Presently, we retainof market analysis. This is the strength we are proud

wor ld - class technic al development c apabilities related toof and at the same time a source of joy.

textiles, and our technologies ranging broadly from synthetic products to nonwoven fabrics that originated from a century of history are alive in the quality of all the product lines
we are engaged in. To deliver even more precise solutions
to our customers, we will create surprising, impressive, andc o m p et i t i ve p r o d u c t s , a n d t o d e l i ve r eve n m o r e p r e c i s esolutions to our customers, we continue our daily activities
in technical development areas.

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Makes Quality Valuefor You

Ladies & Men’s

Sports&Innerwear

Uniforms

Lifestyle

Apparel manufacturer,
retailer, sales agency

Solutions

Planning Section

Production Section■Marketing planners［Marketing plan］
Our marketing planners provide
you plans and proposal suitable
for the market.

■Designers
Our exclusive designers provide
you for design with theirworld-wide trend knowledge fromclothing to textiles.

Productionof clothing

Productionof textiles

Distribution Section■ Store assortments■ Individual andotherassortments

Textile Evaluation
Specialist(Direct instructions given by
our experienced staff)

Also handle
POS systems■Pattern makers
Our experienced and creative
staff proposes our original techniques and new silhouettes.

Domestic
factories

Overseasfactories

Delivery
We provide integrated
plans and proposals including a theme concept thatreflect customers’ opinions.

Department stores

Providing quality
products

Chain stores
Specialty stores

Comprehensive
all-in-one system
Spinning
companies

Woven and knitting
factories

Dyeingfactories

Sewingfactories84

Makes Quality Valuefor You

Ladies & Men’s

Sports&Innerwear

Uniforms

Lifestyle

Apparel manufacturer,
retailer, sales agency

Solutions

Planning Section

Production Section■Marketing planners［Marketing plan］
Our marketing planners provide
you plans and proposal suitable
for the market.

■Designers
Our exclusive designers provide
you for design with theirworld-wide trend knowledge fromclothing to textiles.

Productionof clothing

Productionof textiles

Distribution Section■ Store assortments■ Individual andotherassortments

Textile Evaluation
Specialist(Direct instructions given by
our experienced staff)

Also handle
POS systems■Pattern makers
Our experienced and creative
staff proposes our original techniques and new silhouettes.

Domestic
factories

Overseasfactories

Delivery
We provide integrated
plans and proposals including a theme concept thatreflect customers’ opinions.

Department stores

Providing quality
products

Chain stores
Specialty stores

Comprehensive
all-in-one system
Spinning
companies

Woven and knitting
factories

Dyeingfactories

Sewingfactories
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Ladies & Men’s

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Ladies & Men’s

Sports&Innerwear

Uniforms

LifestyleMakes Quality Valuefor You

Corresponding to customer needs withcurrent trend.
We deliver “today” in fashion.

Taking advantage of our comprehensive textile-related capabilities, we support our customers
starting from the stages of apparel product material procurement and development.
We deploy consistent value-chain management from weaving, knitting,dyeing and other processing of textile products leveraging our trading company functions,to the gamut from merchandizing to design of apparel products,
and original equipment manufacturing for specialty stores, department stores, and mail order outlets,
all the way through to distribution.
We provide all manner of solutions tailored to the needs of our customers.

Unique Deployment throughHigher Order Operations
We are intensively deploying differentiatedand high value-added products equippedwith global competitive capacity. In addition
to the sophisticated technical development
capabilities and facilities inherited from theUnitika Group in Japan, we have alsobrought these assets to overseas production
centers, where we are working to provide
unique products that have the added benefitof “Japan quality” in cost operations.

Responding Flexibly to
an Array of Distribution Needs
As a manufacturer-type trading company, we
have the ability to provide solutions and thetrack record that comes with our close pers p e c t i v e o n t h e f i n a l c o n s u m e r s . We a l s oachieve original equipment manufacturing
through an all-in-one system, starting frommaterials development, which accommodates
customer needs. We will also provide solutions that include collaboration with brands inJapan and overseas, and direction of distribution structures.

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Textile & Apparel BusinessSports & Innerwear

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Ladies & Men’s

Sports&Innerwear

Uniforms

LifestyleMakes Quality Valuefor You

Putting high added value on products withour broad range of expertise.

We will innovate new possibilities in apparel.

Sportswear is the type of apparel product that requires the most advanced functionality.
Utilizing high-level technical capabilities, we develop highly functional materialsof all kinds that are lauded even by top athletes.
We also maintain a line of materials appropriate for innerwear
that is comfortable to wear and is highly functional.
We support our customers in every aspect,from product planning to design and original equipment manufacturing.

High Quality and Highly
Varied Supply Structure
In the sportswear field, where demand forf u n c t i o n a l i t y c o n t i n u e s t o g r o w, w h a t w evalue most is our close communication withapparel manufacturers. Our strength is in our
broad-ranging responses in rapidly supplying
high-quality thread, fabric and secondary
products at each stage to accommodate theneeds ascertained in the activities of our development teams.

Functional Innerwear that
Employs Technology
In the field of functional innerwear as well—amarket that has been revitalized in recent
years—we supply materials that make use of
our technology development capabilities. We
are especially applauded for our ability tocreate hit products using composite materials or high value-added, differentiated materials produced with a special ﬁnishing proc e s s . We a r e g o i n g f o r w a r d t o p r o p o s i n ggarments with our all-in-one system in bothsportswear and innerwear.

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Textile & Apparel Business

Ladies & Men’s

Sports&Innerwear

Uniforms

LifestyleMakes Quality Valuefor You

Uniform

Providing a wide range of solutions fromenvironmentally conscious materials to apparel products.
We create uniforms that contain new value.

Nowadays environmentally friendly products are standard as well as stretchability andabsorbing sweat for quick dry for both company and school uniforms and the ecofriendly products
shows they have less impact on the earth throughout the product life cycle.
In addition to development all manner of eco-materials and environmentally friendly systems,
we also manufacture textile products, office wear, working wear, caddie wear,
and other apparel products, as well as producing custom-made uniforms.

Highly Functional Clothing
to Accommodate an Aging Society
As uniforms diversify, we are especially emphasizing development of nursing and nursing care
clothing against the backdrop of the current aging
society, as well as infection preventing wears andsurgical fabrics, for which a high degree of functionality is required. Moving forward, we will
deploy our business with an eye toward expanding sales of differentiated materials to global markets and manufacturing a variety of garments
using our proprietary highly functional fabrics.

Accommodating Everythingfrom Special Functions toEnvironmentally Friendly Products
Moreover, we have focused on our major themes
from the development of ecofriendly products torecycling systems reusing consumed uniforms
such as recycled polyester “Uniecolo TM ” and recycling system “Ecorally TM ”.

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Textile & Apparel Business

Ladies & Men’s

Sports&Innerwear

Uniforms

LifestyleMakes Quality Valuefor You

Lifestyle

Developing bedding and towels made of natural
materials by our processing techniques.
We spread true comfort to people’s lives.

We develop high-quality and highly functional natural fiber materials, and provide optimal quality
in bedding, towels,and other items in the home textiles field.
We also leverage sophisticated processing techniques,
such as antibacterial treatment to inhibit the growth of microbes and bacteria in the fibers.
We bring together a vast array of high valued-added products that pursue cleanliness and comfort.

Bedding products made ofa wide range of materials with
our sophisticated design
We sell all manner of materials for bedding
products, including fabric for feather comforters and Japanese-style mattresses and theircovers, pillow covers, and pajamas. Ourlineup of a broad range of high-quality materials includes high thread-count spun yarn
and Indian cotton, as well as our stock of approximately 10,000 print designs. Many of
our customers evaluate our ability to offer awide array of solutions with our print design
stock.

Deploying Everything from
Lifestyle Materials to
Our Own Products
In addition to supplying original yarns andraw materials for towels, handkerchiefs, curtains and other high-quality lifestyle materials, we utilize our sophisticated processing
and sewing techniques and produce our own
products of feather comforters and undergarments made of our special double-layered
yarn, “Palpa TM ” as a manufacturer.

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Industrial Materials Business

Taking full advantage of our functionality
as a manufacturer and trading company.
We will provide optimal materials
through our planning capabilities and network.
We supply all manner of fiber materials, synthetic materials,
plastics, and functional materials needed in every kind of industry.
We provide total solutions in raw materials, semi-finished products, and products,
with focus on environmentally friendly materials.
With our motto that all customer needs are business resources,
we deliver original materials through our sophisticated technologies
and network as a manufacturer and trading company.
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Makes Quality Valuefor You

Industrial
Materials

Plastics

Functional
Materials

Functional
Materials(lifestyle applications)(exterior / interior applications)

Industrial Materials
Industrial materials,
spunbond fabrics

Materials
suppliers

Various kinds ofmanufactures related tomarine products, agriculture,
civil engineering, architecture,
automobile, etc.

Processors

Reflecting
on products

Feedbackof ideas

We provide customers with various
solutions from raw materials, semi-finished products to finished products
based on the keyword ”next generation
eco-friendly materials.”

Functional Materials
User needs(Lifestyle applications)

Processing

Market needs

Requests

Technology

Commercialize

Integration

Materials

Material
suppliers
and trading
companies

at NB, PB, or OEM
Materialize
their needs as
our products and provide themto the market and the users(Exterior/interior applications) Trading companies
Generaland interior companies▶contractors

Construction
and public works
materials

Sports-related companies Government
and paving companies ▶agencies

Raw material
manufacturers
Processing
manufacturers
Interior
companies

We supply products with high functionality in the field ranging from lifestylenecessities to industrial materials forbusiness as well as sports facilities, exteriors and interiors.

General contractors

Artificial
lawn
Artificial lawn,interior work
Interior
products

Interior work in public facilities,
hospitals, and condominium-based
nursing care facilities

Subcontractors

Plastics
Proposal of materials and processors

Plastics
manufacturers

Processors●Converters●Films●Molders●Resins●Slitting●Coating

Users
●Food

manufacturers●Informationequipment
manufacturers●Automobile
manufacturers,
etc.

Unitika Trading utilizes the networking
capabilities of a trading company toprovide detailed support from material
selection to processing and delivery.

Feedback of ideas and needs

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Industrial Materials BusinessIndustrial Materials

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Industrial
Materials

Plastics

Makes Quality Valuefor You
Functional
Materials(lifestyle applications)

Functional
Materials(exterior / interior applications)Contributing to industry with various materialsof all kinds.
We provide total solutions, from fibers to resins.

We provide highly functional materials developed by the Unitika Group to all manner of industry sectors.
We support industry in wide-ranging forms, for nylon, polyester and other fiber and synthetic materials,
as well as original fabrics to each kind of processed productand sewn product even for nonwoven fabrics capable of deployment in a variety of applications.

Deploying a Wide Array ofFiber Materials in All Industries
We sell fiber materials that are used in all
manner of industries, from fisheries and agriculture to construction, automotive, all types ofmanufacturing, and recreation. In addition topolyester, nylon, and vinylon, we deploy proprietary functional fibers that include amorphous
metal fibers and glass fibers, activated carbon
fibers that exert a strong effect in air and water
filtration systems, and the biomass material Terramac that has a low environmental impact.

High Share of Nonwoven Fabrics
and Proprietary Synthetics
Spunbonded nonwoven fabrics and discontinuous-fiber nonwoven fabrics are focus products inthe field of industrial materials, as demand isincreasing for these materials in civil engineering, agriculture and household necessities. In addition to original fabrics, we also handle all
manner of processing, such as slitting, rewinding,printing, bag making, evaporation, and coating.
Our glass bead “Sparklite™”, used in reflectors,
is also gaining attention and expanding into new
applications.

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Industrial Materials Business

Functional Materials

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Industrial
Materials

Plastics

Makes Quality Valuefor You
Functional
Materials(lifestyle applications)

Functional
Materials(exterior / interior applications)

Proposing functional products
for lifestyle necessities, exteriors, and interiors.
We leverage our potential through creativity.
We take advantage of our extensive line of materials, including fibers and synthetics,
and our network to deploy products that are active in lifestyle settings and sports settings
that require special applications and functions.
From lifestyle necessities such as kitchen supplies and cleaning products
where functionality is emphasized, to materials for artificial lawn, interiors,and public works construction, we maintain a product lineupthat makes use of our unique planning and development capabilities.

A Broad Range of Lifestyle-related
Necessities to Meet Customer Needs
Though the wide expanse of materials and uniqueplanning and development capabilities of the Unitika
Group, we manufacture and sell all manner of lifestyle necessities and industrial materials tailored touser needs. We deal with products from familiar lifestyle items such as kitchen supplies and cleaningproducts, to products used in all types of plants,
such as wiping cloths.

Pursuing Safety from Exterior
Products to Interior Products
We deploy our artificial lawn “Green Eye™”
as a core product active in a wide array offields, from sports application to recreational products and landscaping. Our lineup
also includes our “Green Eye Sand™” artificial lawn containing sand for tennis courts,
and our long-pile artificial lawn “Green Eye
Hyper™” for grounds. We also offer designand execution of interior work, and sell interior products, namely carpets, blinds, andcurtains. We thereby respond to a vast
range of customer needs.

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Plastics

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Industrial
Materials

Plastics

Makes Quality Valuefor You
Functional
Materials(lifestyle applications)

Functional
Materials(exterior / interior applications)

Expanding the possibilities
for films and environmental materials.
We provide detailed support for everythingfrom selection of materials to the final product.

We maintain extensive technologies and knowledge as a materials manufacturer,
based on our polymer technologies.
Leveraging out network functions as a trading company underpinned by such expertise,
we are supplying unique products in all manner of fields.
Also we actively promotes environmentally friendly products such as our biomass material “Terramac TM ”.

Selling Plastic Processing Methods
and Processing MachineryWe provide detailed service solutions ranging
from supply of materials to processing and delivery. We select the ideal processing companies tomeet our customer needs in terms of quality, lots,
and deadlines. We also can arrange for bio-clean
rooms (BCR) that eliminate particles and mic r o b e s , e n a b l i n g h i g h - q u a l i t y p r o c e s s i n g . We
also sell plastics processing machinery. We areable to fulfill orders with tight deadlines throughcoordination with warehouses and various logistics companies.

Food Packaging,
Industrial Films and Resins
We sell all manner of films and resins used
for food packaging, such as nylon, polyester,and polypropylene, as well as film productsthat undergo secondary processing, such as
slitting and coating, used in the automotive
and information equipment industrial fields.
Upon request, we also provide assistance inselecting ONY, PET, OPP, CPP, AF (aluminum foil), and other films. By feeding backinformation from customers, we also play anactive role in product development.

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Global Business

Makes Quality Valuefor You

Dynamically expanding our business fromthe ASEAN countries to the United States and Europe.
We are engaged in everything from import/export activities toon-site manufacturing and sales.

We are involved in import/export activities,
from the purchasing of original yarns to the planning and sale of denim fabric.
We are also dynamically advancing production and sales with an eye firmly on overseas markets.
By revitalizing production centers that use overseas infrastructure andthrough our overseas sales network,
we will expand sales of business resources,such as differentiated threads and industrial materials,
from China to the ASEAN countries, and then to the EU markets.
Overseas
sales(Shanghai, Beijing,
Hong Kong)

Global Development andSale of Denim Fabrics
We m a i n t a i n a t i e - u p w i t h a m a j o r d e n i mfabric manufacturer that has the top share in
Japan, and are engaged in the related export
activities. We currently have approximately
120 contracts with famous apparel manufacturers in the United States and Europe. In
coordination with overseas sewing and processing plants, we propose and supply
top-quality denim materials to the world’ sjeans markets.

Overseas
production

Domestic
spinning
Overseas
spinning

Export of denim fabric(mainly to famous
jeansmanufacturers
in the United States and Europe)

Original
yarn

Original
yarn

Original yarn

Sewing andhand-washing

Fabricmanufacturers
and knitters

Denim fabricmanufacturers
Plans forjoint tie-ups

Overseassales(EU markets)

Strengthening our Motive Forceas a Global Corporation
We are powerfully advancing our global deployment by utilizing overseas infrastructure. In addition to import/export activities and overseas production, we are promoting the expansion ofoverseas sales and the establishment of production structures through coordination with thesales hubs the Unitika Group maintains in Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong Kong. We will move fromoverseas deployment of differentiated threads topromotion of sales within China, deployment ofindustrial materials in Southeast Asia, and thento advancement into markets in the United Statesand Europe. We are making strides daily in our
drive to be a global corporation.
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Head Office
Tokyo Office

M e t l i f e H o m m a c h i S q u a r e , 2 - 5 - 7 H o m m a c h i , C h u o - k u , O s a k a , 541-0053, Japan
Kyodo Bldg., 1-5, Nihonbashi Muromachi 4-Chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 103-0022, Japanwww.unitrade.co.jp

Tel. +81-6-4705-9011 Fax. +81-6-4705-9020
Tel. +81-3-3246-7783 Fax. +81-3-3246-7790

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