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 being created in foundational and new business areas through advances in Ushio’s core technologies, incorporating them into our busi-ness model, etc. We are contributing to solving global social issues by creating new value and developing and providing competitive products leveraging our light source technology
Key Performance Indices for FY2026	Establishment of processes for R&D and new business creation which sustainably create new value and implementation across the Group Supporting miniaturization in the semiconduc-tor industry through packaging, EUVs, optical thermal technology, etc.
Initiatives for FY2024 to FY2026	Establishment 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

Materiality (the Five Management Focuses)