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Marubeni Corporation (TSE securities code: 8002) is one of Japan’s largest trading companies (sogo shosha) with more than 165 years of history. Headquartered in Tokyo, Marubeni continues to expand its businesses across the globe, with 130 branches and offices worldwide. Marubeni is involved in the handling of products and provision of services in a broad range of sectors, with our 50,000+ employees across our Group companies engaging in business as corporate staff or through one of our many Business Divisions: Lifestyle, Food & Agri Business, Metals & Mineral Resources, Energy & Chemicals, Power & Infrastructure Services, Finance, Leasing & Real Estate Business, Aerospace & Mobility, Next Generation Business Development, and Next Generation Corporate Development. In these areas, Marubeni’s business encompasses importing and exporting, as well as transactions in the Japanese market, as well as investment, development, and management on a global level. For more information on our business in these areas, please visit https://www.marubeni.com/en/business/ Marubeni’s vision for the future is exemplified by the Marubeni’s “Global crossvalue platform,” wherein Marubeni will anticipate challenges and deliver innovative solutions by breaking down barriers as well as generate new value combining strengths across the Marubeni Group. For more details on the Global crossvalue platform, please see https://www.marubeni.com/en/company/gcp/ For more information on Marubeni in general or on our various businesses, please visit our website.

＜Nippon Steel Corporation does not recognize this account as OFFICIAL, but it is open for LinkedIn subscribers.＞ On April 1, 2019, we renamed ourselves as “Nippon Steel Corporation” (from Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corporation), to keep in pace with our advance as a growing global steelmaker with origins in Japan.

Tosoh Corporation is the parent company of a Japanese chemical and specialty products and materials group that comprises over 100 companies worldwide and a multiethnic workforce of more than 13,000 people. The parent company was established in 1935 and is listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. In the more than 80 years that we have been in business, we have built balanced product lines of commodity chemicals for industry and of specialty products and materials for high technology and niche markets. Tosoh’s principal markets include the chemical and petrochemical, construction, automotive, consumer electronics, information technology, bioscience, and environmental markets. Tosoh, in short, is a global chemical company that supplies manufacturers with the materials they need to produce the things that make modern life all that it is and everything it can be.