Home> Press Release> Press Release (2006)> ZEON Corporation Announces Completion of Next-Generation R&D Building No. 10ZEON Corporation Announces Completion of Next-Generation R&DBuilding No. 10May 26, 2006
ZEON Corporation (President & CEO: Naozumi Furukawa) held a ceremony on May 26, 2006, to celebrate thecompletion of its new R&D Building No. 10 on the site of its R&D Center in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture. The
building is a part of our efforts to strengthen research and development of ZEON's unique technologies toward
creating next-generation businesses to drive corporate expansion. Through this project, which was subsidized byKanagawa Prefecture under its "Invest Kanagawa" program, ZEON intends to fortify a base from which leading
technologies can be transmitted to the world.
ZEON has been promoting new businesses by developing and marketing such products as ZEONEX® andZEONOR® specialty plastics, precision molded LCD optical films and diffusion plates and advanced low-k
ZEOMAC® semiconductor materials, while also enhancing facilities for research and development to createnext-generation businesses. The expansion and advances in ZEON's fields of research and development gave
rise to the need for new research facilities, and construction of the new R&D Building No. 10 was launched inMarch 2005.
ZEON will utilize the new R&D Building No. 10 to pursue research and development in the five business areas
which have been designated as next-generation businesses, semiconductor materials, recording materials, LCD
materials, energy-related materials such as rechargeable batteries, and communications materials. ZEON will
also develop an assessment technology as the foundation for developing these materials as well as precision
processing technology for new materials.
Along with R&D Building No. 10, a facility management building for total energy control was completed. The
building will play an important role in ZEON's uncompromising effort to promote conservation of resources andenergy for its continued research and development activities in the Kawasaki area far into the future bycentralizing control of all energy and utilities used within the grounds of the R&D Center. Furthermore, work iscurrently underway to reinforce and upgrade the waste water treatment facility for the Kawasaki Plant adjacent toR&D Building No. 10 and environmental control facilities to protect the atmosphere and other aspects of theenvironment. The entire project is scheduled for completion in fiscal 2007.
Other completed ZEON projects include the construction of R&D Building No. 9 at the R&D Center as a facility
fully equipped with clean rooms, the construction and enhancement of the Precision Optics Laboratory at its

Takaoka Plant in Takaoka City, Toyama Prefecture, and the construction of an R&D facility for chemicals
development at its Yonezawa Plant in Yonezawa City, Yamagata Prefecture. ZEON believes the construction ofthe new R&D Building No. 10 completes a solid R&D platform for creating next-generation businesses based on
its exclusive world-class technologies.

Overview of the new R&D Building No. 10Location
1-2-1 Yako, Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki-shi,
Kanagawa Prefecture
Total floor area
Building No. 10:approx. 10,100m2(8 floors above ground plus PH)
New facility management building, etc.: 880m2(2 floors above ground; 1 floor underground)

For further information
Zeon Corporation,
Department of Corporate Communications
Tel: +81-3-3216-2747