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Thursday, March 26, 2009For Immediate Release
Kanamoto Company, Limited
Stock Code 9678
Tokyo Stock Exchange 1st Section; Sapporo Stock Exchange
Nobuhito Utatsu
Director and Corporate Officer, Division Manager, Accounting Division< Contact for inquiries concerning this material >Yuichi Takayama
IR & Public Relations Section Manager, Office of the President
Telephone: + 81 – 11 – 209 – 1631

Establishment of Japan’s First
Commitment Facility with Emissions Trading
Kanamoto Company, Limited (Kanchu Kanamoto, President; Head Office: Sapporo, Japan), Japan’s leading
construction equipment rental company, has decided to establish Japan’s first syndication-type commitment
facility with emissions trading as part of its environmentally-conscious management. Details are provided
below.
1. Reason for establishing a syndication-type Commitment Facility with emissions trading
Make a new contribution to society as a further measure of environmentally-conscious management
Kanamoto believes consideration of the global environment is an important obligation for fulfilling its
social responsibilities as a corporation and for several years has been replacing its rental assets withmodels that clear anti-pollution statutes for exhaust gas, noise and other environmentally harmful effects.
Today 99% of the Company’s rental construction equipment portfolio consists of the latest
environmentally-friendly models that clear anti-pollution regulations. In conjunction with this effort,Kanamoto has established a syndication-type commitment facility with emissions trading to make a newcontribution to society as a further measure of environmentally-conscious management.
Specifically, the facility is a fund procurement scheme among Kanamoto, The Bank ofTokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Co., Ltd. that is accompanied by emissionstrading, as a mechanism that can contribute to measures to address the environmental problems
represented most dramatically by global warming. Kanamoto and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ will
invest funds to purchase emissions trading rights through Mitsubishi UFJ Securities, and assign withoutcharge the emissions trading rights acquired to Japan’s central government.
The approach adopted for this facility will be the first of its kind not only among the firms directly
involved, but in Japan as well.
Ensure a stable, flexible funding framework
Because Kanamoto’s principal business in construction equipment rentals requires a substantial
amount of capital investment, the Company’s interest-bearing debt burden is quite large compared tomost firms managing a flow-type business. Accordingly, Kanamoto decided to adopt the facility inquestion from the standpoint of its need to diminish financing costs and maintain a stable, flexible funding
arrangement for short-term working capital, and to provide a mechanism for the timely procurement offunds required for purchases of firms through M&A and other arrangements.

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2. Commitment Facility details
Credit line limit:
Closing date:
Facility term:
Arrangers etc.:

3.0 billion yenMarch 26, 2009364 days
Lead arrangers････ The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd., Mitsubishi
UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation, Mizuho Corporate････ Bank, Ltd.
Joint arranger････ Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Lead managers
North Pacific Bank, Ltd., The Norinchukin Bank
Agent:The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.
Syndicate group: The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd., Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking
Corporation, Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd., Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation,
North Pacific Bank, Ltd., The Norinchukin Bank, JA - Hokkaido Shinren, Shinkin
Central Bank, The Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co., Ltd., The Daishi Bank, Ltd., The
77 Bank, Ltd.
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