BUSINESS Business Overview

Starting from the industrial gas supply, our business has expanded diversely in stable markets that are essential to manufacturing and people’s daily lives. Our business portfolio is now able to generate sustainable and stable growth, regardless of changes in the business environment.

Supports various manufacturing industries by providing a stable supply of industrial gases through our nationwide network of bases. By leveraging our strength handling both industrial gases and chemical products, also supports the electronics industry with a wide range of products and services.

Retails LP gas for residential use mainly in Hokkaido and Tohoku areas. Also develops fuel conversion and LNG-related businesses amid growing demand for low-carbon and decarbonized energy. Furthermore, aims to establish a resource-recycling energy supply model that utilizes unused resources for local production for local consumption and to create new businesses such as CO2 capture and reuse.

Provides solutions to the medical field by utilizing our diverse products and services, including medical gases, design, construction, maintenance, and inspection of hospital equipment, outsourcing of hospital operations, and sanitary materials. Also supports people’s health and safety by developing businesses in home health care, oral care, consumer health, and safety services.

Starting with the production and sale of frozen food using liquefied nitrogen, expanded our business from the wholesale, processing, and retail of fruits and vegetables to the production and sale of beverages and sweets. Continues to support safe and secure “food” in a variety of areas by leveraging our strong ties with producers through the procurement of raw vegetable ingredients, our product development capabilities, and the processing technology to realize them.

Includes (1) “Logistics,” which operates a 3PL business utilizing cryogenic controlled transportation technology and medical logistics, (2) “Seawater,” which expands its salt manufacturing technology to artificial seawater and environmental business, and (3) “Global & Engineering,” which develops industrial gas business in North America and India and globally supplies high-power UPS (uninterruptible power supplies) used in data centers and other facilities.