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22LINTEC ANNUAL REPORT 2018In recent years, these operations have grown significantly. We are building a unique position in the electronics industry with products such as specialized adhesive tapes that are essential in semiconductor chip manufacturing and mounting processes, and we also make equipment that leverages these tapes’ special features fully. In addition, we produce and sell release films that are crucial in the production of multilayer ceramic capacitors, which are electronic components.Accounting for approximately 35% of the sales of the LINTEC Group, these are its largest operations. They manufacture and sell the Group’s mainstay adhesive papers and films for labels. In particular, these operations have an approximately 60% share of Japan’s market for adhesive films, which have particularly high added value. Overseas, we increased the scale of operations by expanding our manufacturing and sales network in China and Southeast Asia and by taking measures that included acquiring U.S. company MACTAC AMERICAS, LLC in 2016.We deploy our development technologies for special adhesives and surface coating agents as well as precision coating technology and use leading-edge production facilities to provide adhesive processing for various types of optically functional films, such as polarizing films and retardation films that are used in LCDs and organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays. We also undertake surface improvement processing for polarizing films, such as antiglare hard coat processing, which protects films from scratches and reduces reflectivity.These operations manufacture and sell an extremely wide range of products, from window films with various functions such as cutting out heat and ultra-violet light when they are attached to building and automobile windows through to motorcycle- and automobile-use adhesive products for such applications as vehicle body decoration and protection, industrial-use adhesive tapes for bonding components in mobile and other devices, labeling machines for automated labeling, films for outdoor signs and advertising, and decorative films for interiors.We have the leading share in the Japanese market for color papers for envelopes and colored construction papers. We also manufacture and sell specialty papers including oil and water resistant papers used in food packaging, dust-free papers for use in places such as clean rooms, high-grade printing papers with special textures, and high-grade papers for paper products used in business cards and postcards. Currently, these operations are centered on Japan. Going forward, however, we will also concentrate on sales activities with a view to increasing sales overseas.We endow papers and films with special functions, such as releasability and resistance to water, heat, and abrasion to create release papers and films that protect the adhesive surfaces of a variety of adhesive products. We also produce casting papers that are used as patterning papers for placing designs on synthetic leather and casting papers used in the manufacture of carbon fiber composite material sheets from fibers.Printing and Industrial Materials ProductsElectronic and Optical ProductsFine & Specialty Paper Products OperationsConverted Products OperationsAdvanced Materials OperationsPrinting & Variable Information Products OperationsOptical Products OperationsIndustrial & Material OperationsPaper and Converted ProductsCORPORATE VALUE INITIATIVESAt a Glance