As of March 31, 2015, Advanex transferred all holding shares of Daiichi Kasei Holdings Co., Ltd. to ABICO Group, an industrial group in Taiwan, thus letting go of all of its plastic business except the insert molding business. In connection with this measure, the Group formulated its mid-term business plan "Breakthrough to 2020".





Aggressive investment to lay the path to further global business development
 In the markets of newly-emerging nations, the Group intends to make active investments to expand our market channels to both Japan-based and U.S. and Europe-based automotive parts suppliers.
 In Asia, we intend to reinforce our plant in Vietnam, increase the number of business bases in India at the same time opening a plant in the country, while for China the plan is to establish a new sales office in Chongqing and restructure the overall business of the Group in China.
 In Europe, we plan to make a shift from the current UK-centered business development strategy and to make inroads into the auto market, examine possibilities for opening sales offices and building new plants in Central Europe, which should enable the Group to expand it business further.
 In America, we will consider establishing our second plant in Mexico and advance into Brazil so as to reinforce our business in Central America.




Growth strategy with auto market as the core
 The Group intends to pursue growth opportunities in the auto market, which accounts for the large portion of demand for springs, striving to expand the volume of transactions with both Japan-based and U.S. and Europe-based automotive parts suppliers. In Japan, we plan to establish a new plant specializing 100% in auto parts in Saitama Prefecture by the end of the present year, and make further additions and betterments there in 2020. Moreover, the Group plans to make the medical equipment market, infrastructure market, and construction market collectively our third pillar of the business after the core businesses of auto market and OA equipment market, and reinforce our marketing activities in these areas.




Boosting development and expanding sales of our products (standardized goods)
 The Group will actively develop its standardized-goods business to expand volume of transactions, which would lead to an increase in the number of new customers and, consequently, of the orders received for custom-made products.
 We intend to expand direct sales on the Internet, at the same time launching sales via trading companies and overseas export. In addition, we shall promote development of in-house products centering on metal processing, also striving to develop insert collars, insert molding, and products processed using deep drawing technology marketing these in the overseas markets.


Tangless insert kit


Lock one (former product name: Tamont)



Use of mergers and acquisitions to expand business domain and market areas
 The Group intends to develop in companies of the Group the excellent deep drawing technology of Funabashi Electronics Co., Ltd., which the Group purchased in 2014, promoting development of products for the auto market and overseas production. Moreover, to expand the Group's area of expertise, we intend to advance mergers and acquisitions with metal processing manufacturers in Japan and examine possibilities of purchasing plants overseas to expanding the areas of manufacture overseas.


Funabashi Electronics Co., Ltd., a new member of the Group