In the Machinery Group, we handle a wide range of machinery including equipment for large plants that produce essential components for industry, such as electricity, natural gas, petroleum, chemicals and steel. We also deal in transportation and distribution equipment, including ships, trains, automobiles, and elevators, as well as equipment and parts for the aerospace and defense industries. We handle general industrial equipment, such as construction machinery, machine tools, agricultural machinery, and food machinery.

We are looking to broaden our participation across value chains, expanding from machinery sales into such areas as finance, logistics and business investment. We do this by leveraging our accumulated strengths-the expert knowledge we possess in various fields, as well as our credibility, extensive network, and track record.

To deliver consistent growth that is impervious to conditions in resource markets, our approach will be to invest in the overseas IPP and automobile business fields. By channeling our management resources to these key fields, we will endeavor to expand our earnings base and increase our earning power in each business field as we seek to grow over the medium and long terms.