Focus 1. Creating Light Innovation Businesses to Solve Social Issues

Definition of Management Focus

We believe our mission is to put the light technologies we have cultivated as a “light innovation company” to use to contribute to resolving the issues facing society in the future.

Vision for FY2030
  • New businesses and markets are continuously created in foundational and new business areas through advances in Ushio’s core technologies, incorporating them into our business model, etc.
  • Contribute to solving global social issues by creating new value and developing and providing competitive products leveraging our light source technology
Economic Value Connection
  • Expand revenue and earnings by creating new businesses
Key Performance Indices for FY2026
  • Establishment of processes for R&D and new business creation that sustainably generate new value and their subsequent implementation across the Group
  • Supporting miniaturization in the semiconductor industry through packaging, EUV, optical thermal technology, etc.
Initiatives for FY2024 to FY2026
  • Development and implementation of business creation road map
  • Establishment of business creation process
  • Steady deployment of lithography equipment business strategies across the Group
  • Development of next-generation EUV light sources and performance improvement of optical thermal products for semiconductors
FY2024 Progress
  • Completed evaluation of development themes, including business divisions, and improved evaluation criteria
  • Completed development of a tool for objective evaluation using generative AI
  • Consolidated technical resources Group-wide to advance development. On track to release a development model in FY2026
  • Consolidated technical resources, and currently evaluating optical thermal products for semiconductors at customer sites
FY2025 Plan
  • Develop a Group-wide roadmap led by the Marketing Management Division and Corporate Technology Division, focusing on IP business
  • Conduct objective evaluation using generative AI to refine development themes
  • Promote development for FY2026 product releases, collaborate with strategic partners, and optimize and enhance resources
  • Follow up on customer evaluations and advance projects toward mass production