◇Invitation to the Primix Free Seminar◇ ■Date and Time: June 2 (Friday) 13:15–13:45 at Venue E ■Venue: CITE Japan 2017 (Pacifico Yokohama) 【Exhibitor Technical Presentation】 At Venue E ■Presentation Content: "Micronization and Monodispersity Using a Thin Film Swirling Mixer and Its Benefits" The Thin Film Swirling Mixer Filmix® achieves high-speed stirring under extremely uniform and gentle conditions, allowing for control of average particle size and particle size distribution without compromising the properties of fine particles. In this seminar, we will introduce various benefits applicable to cosmetic technology, such as improvements in various physical properties and drug encapsulation rates associated with particle micronization and monodispersity. *Speaker: Takahashi Yoshihito, Technical Director, Primix Emulsification and Dispersion Technology Research Institute® *This is a seminar-style technical presentation, and anyone attending the exhibition is welcome to listen.

Next week, on May 30th (Tuesday) at 1:00 PM, our President and CEO, Naoharu Furuichi, will be appearing live on Radio Kansai! He will be featured on the program "Kochira, Umi no Mieru Housoukyoku: Katsura Shuncho's Butterfly Effect," which airs every Tuesday on the AM radio station in Hyogo Prefecture, Radio Kansai. During the live broadcast, he will talk for about 10 minutes about Primix. To everyone in the broadcast area, please tune in! ▼ Radio Kansai JOCR 558KHz Katsura Shuncho's Butterfly Effect program homepage (blog) http://jocr.jp/be/

▼▼━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▲▲ "8th Cosmetics Industry Technology Exhibition CITE Japan 2017" Exhibition Announcement ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ May 31, 2017 (Wednesday) - June 2, 2017 (Friday) 10:00 - 17:00 *Final day ends at 16:00 Venue: Pacifico Yokohama PRIMIX Booth No. D18-4 Primix has a wealth of experience supplying emulsification, dispersion, and kneading machines to the cosmetics industry. Please feel free to consult us about scale-up and other inquiries. A free seminar will also be held at the venue! ↓↓↓ ■ Exhibitor Technical Presentation June 2 (Friday) 13:15 - 13:45 at Venue E "Micronization and Monodispersion Using a Thin Film Rotating Mixer and Its Benefits" If you would like an invitation ticket, please let us know the number you need via the inquiry form below. We look forward to your visit. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

▼▼━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▲▲ Introduction of the Primix Employee Cafeteria on NHK "Salameshi" Re-broadcast on April 27 (Thursday) at 12:20 PM! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The NHK General TV program "Salameshi," which aired on April 25, will be re-broadcast on 【April 27 (Thursday) from 12:20 PM to 12:45 PM】. The Primix headquarters/factory and the employee cafeteria La Cantine will be introduced through the excitement of new employees. (The photo was taken during the interview in late March.) If you missed yesterday's broadcast, please be sure to watch it. *However, the program may change without notice. ■ Salameshi re-broadcast schedule: http://www4.nhk.or.jp/salameshi/2/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

NHK's "Salameshi" will introduce the Primix employee cafeteria on April 25th at 8:15 PM! Next week, on Tuesday, April 25th from 8:15 PM to 8:43 PM, NHK General TV's "Salameshi" will feature the Primix headquarters/factory and the employee cafeteria La Cantine. (The photo was taken during an interview in late March.) "Salameshi" is a program that focuses on the lunches of working people, showcasing the lunches of various professions and introducing the dedication to work and inspiring stories hidden within those lunches. We hope you can feel the atmosphere of our work and workplace through the program. Please be sure to watch. *However, the program may change without notice. ■ Salameshi Official Site: http://www.nhk.or.jp/salameshi/

NHK's "Salameshi" will feature the Primix employee cafeteria! The Primix headquarters/factory and the employee cafeteria La Cantine will be introduced on NHK General TV's "Salameshi." Salameshi is a program that showcases the lunches of people from various professions, focusing on working individuals. The narration will be done by actor Kiichi Nakai. The broadcast is scheduled for late April. We will inform you again once the broadcast date is confirmed. ■ Salameshi Official Site: http://www.nhk.or.jp/salameshi/

▼▼━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▲▲ Notice of Participation in the "High-Performance Ceramics Exhibition" ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 　　Date: April 5 (Wednesday) - April 7 (Friday), 2017, 10:00 - 18:00 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　* Last day ends at 17:00 　　Venue: Tokyo Big Sight 　　PRIMIX Booth No. 6-44 (East Hall 4) 　　We will be showcasing a rich lineup of dispersion stirring devices, including the "Filmix(R)" for dispersing ceramic materials, ranging from research machines to production machines, as well as the research machine "Hibis Dispermix" for dispersion mixing and kneading. 　　If you would like an invitation ticket, please let us know the number you need through the inquiry form below. 　　We look forward to your visit. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

▼▼━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▲▲　　Announcement of Additional Videos on PRIMIX Webcasting ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ We have added FILMIX(R) videos to the PRIMIX Webcasting YouTube channel. Please take a look! ● Stirring Principle of FILMIX(R) The FILMIX(R), a thin film rotary high-speed mixer, exhibits a distinctive liquid movement that differs from conventional high-speed stirrers. ● Tabletop CDM Process CDM56L CDM stands for Continuous Dispersion Mixing, and it is a continuous manufacturing process for electrode slurries developed for dispersion applications of LiB and fuel cell electrode materials. The FM56L can accommodate both batch and continuous processes on a tabletop! ▼PRIMIX Webcasting▼ http://www.youtube.com/user/PRIMIXwebcast ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

◇Invitation to the Primix Free Seminar◇ ■Date and Time: March 3rd (Friday) 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM ■Venue: International Secondary Battery Expo 2017 (Tokyo Big Sight) 【Product and Technology Seminar by Exhibitors】 In Venue B (East Exhibition Hall) ■Presentation Content: "Manufacturing Technology for Electrode Slurry that Enables the Production of High-Quality Ternary Batteries" For EV and PHEV batteries that require high capacity, NCM cathode materials are used, and at the same time, a review of formulations is underway. We will introduce a part of the slurry manufacturing technology for stable battery production. *Instructor: Primix Battery Device Strategy Department PEACE Technical Director, Tsuyoshi Ohata *Participation in this seminar is free. Please come directly to the venue on the day. *An invitation ticket is required for entry to the International Secondary Battery Expo. Please let us know the number of tickets needed through the inquiry form below.

▼▼━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▲▲ Notice of Participation in the "International Secondary Battery Exhibition" ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ March 1 (Wed) - March 3 (Fri), 2017, 10:00 - 18:00 *Final day ends at 17:00 Venue: Tokyo Big Sight PRIMIX Booth No. E33-32 (East Hall 4) We will showcase our small research equipment for lithium-ion batteries and fuel cell electrode material dispersion, as well as the continuous production technology CDM process for electrode material slurries. On the final day, we will also hold a product and technology seminar (free) by exhibitors. March 3 (Fri) 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: B (East Exhibition Hall) ■ Manufacturing technology for electrode slurries that enables the production of high-quality ternary batteries If you would like an invitation ticket, please let us know the required number via the inquiry form below. We look forward to your visit. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

▼▼━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▲▲ New Equipment Operational at the Electrode Plate Manufacturing Technology Research Institute ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Our company has introduced a coater at the Electrode Plate Manufacturing Technology Research Institute (*), located at our Awaji headquarters, and a ceremony to unveil the new equipment was held on July 26. With the introduction of the coater, it has become possible to conduct continuous tests from the production of electrode plate slurry using a high-speed stirrer to the coating of the slurry, significantly shortening the research and development time related to batteries and new battery materials. The research institute will further strengthen research and technology development as a solution hub for electrode plate manufacturing and will disseminate information to the world. * Electrode Plate Manufacturing Technology Research Institute A consortium of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Yamagata University, and Primix. Established in September 2015, it serves as a hub for promoting technology development focused mainly on next-generation battery materials through collaboration among industry, academia, and government. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

On the day of Tanabata, a seminar organized by the Society of Chemical Engineers will be held at the Primix Awaji headquarters. Takahashi and Kanazawa from the Emulsification and Dispersion Technology Research Institute (R) will be giving presentations, and there will also be tours of the Primix Museum and factory. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ■Presentation 1 (13:40–14:15) Optical Properties of Highly Dispersed Fine Particle Compositions Using High-Speed Stirring Speaker: Yuji Takahashi, Primix ■Presentation 2 (14:15–14:50) Research Case Studies of Stirring Machines Using CFD Simulation at Primix Speaker: Kenjiro Kanazawa, Primix ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ For the day's program and application methods, please refer to the related materials PDF or the Kansai Branch of the Society of Chemical Engineers website [http://www.kansai-scej.org/2016/0707_kaihatsu1.html]. As there is a capacity limit, we kindly ask those interested to check early.

▼▼━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▲▲ Announcement of the Establishment of the "Electrode Plate Manufacturing Technology Research Institute" ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ We are pleased to announce that on September 4, our company has established a new solution hub for electrode plate manufacturing, the "Electrode Plate Manufacturing Technology Research Institute," at our new headquarters in Awaji City, Hyogo Prefecture. The Electrode Plate Manufacturing Technology Research Institute is a consortium of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Yamagata University, and Primix. By partnering with AIST, which has extensive knowledge and technology, and the Organic Electronics Research Center at Yamagata University, we aim to enhance research and technology development to more smoothly resolve issues in electrode plate manufacturing and to disseminate information to the world. ■ Primix Corporation: http://www.primix.jp/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

▼▼━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▲▲　Notice of Relocation of Headquarters/Factory to Awaji Island ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ We are pleased to announce that our company will be relocating the Osaka Factory, Saitama Factory, and Emulsification and Dispersion Technology Research Institute (R) to Awaji City, Hyogo Prefecture (Awaji Island). Additionally, we will establish a facility at the Tokyo Branch for on-site testing, and we will open a base in Kawagoe City, Saitama Prefecture, to cover services and maintenance for the Eastern Japan area. All facilities will commence operations from August 17, after the Obon holiday. With this opportunity, all our employees are committed to working diligently to deliver safety, trust, surprise, and excitement in our products and services to our customers. We sincerely ask for your continued support. ■ Primix Corporation: http://www.primix.jp/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

▼▼━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▲▲　Notice of Transfer of Sign Pump Business ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ We are pleased to announce that our company has transferred the business of the volumetric pump "Sign Pump," which we have been manufacturing and selling since 1986, to Watson-Marlow Limited, a subsidiary of the UK listed company Spirex Sarco Engineering. Watson-Marlow Limited is a specialized manufacturer of pumps that operates in over 50 countries worldwide, offering a wide variety of pump products. Moving forward, employees who have been involved with the Sign Pump at our company will also transition to the new company, ensuring a seamless handover without causing any inconvenience to our valued customers. We appreciate your understanding and support in this matter. Our company will continue to focus on stirrers, and we kindly ask for your continued patronage as before. ■ Primix Co., Ltd.: http://www.primix.jp/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

A special science class held at a primary school in Awaji City was featured on NHK News! On December 3rd, a special science class titled "Learning Chemical Reactions" held at Sano Elementary School in Awaji City was introduced in the daily news of NHK General TV Kobe Broadcasting Station. Since 2008, our company has been conducting special classes (science experiment projects) every year to convey the joy of science and chemistry to children. ◎ News Release http://www.primix.jp/news/release/141204.html ■ Primix Corporation: http://www.primix.jp/

▼▼━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▲▲　Notice of 3-Year Warranty Implementation ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ At Primix, we have significantly extended the warranty period from one year to three years. We will support our customers with a reliable after-sales service system, allowing you to use our products with peace of mind even after your purchase. ▼Please see below for the applicable models. http://primix.jp/news/release/130401.html *This applies to contracts made on or after April 1, 2013. *The registration period is within one year from delivery. If you have not yet registered, please do so urgently. Primix will continue to innovate to deliver peace of mind and trust to our customers. We sincerely appreciate your continued support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

▼▼━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▲▲　YouTube video channel, product usage revealed! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ We are pleased to announce the addition of videos to the PRIMIX Webcasting YouTube channel! We provide clear explanations of the features and usage of the following 6 products, demonstrated through actual operation. 　● Filmix(R) Model 40-40 　● Filmix(R) Model 56-30 　● Hibis Dispermix 　● Adihomomixer 　● Lab Revolution(R) 　● Sign Pump If you want to see the actual machines at exhibitions but can't make it... If you want to confirm the products in a three-dimensional way, not just through catalogs... If you're a bit curious about what features they have... Please take a look! (^ -^)p ▼PRIMIX Webcasting▼ http://www.youtube.com/user/PRIMIXwebcast ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

▼▼━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▲▲　　YouTube Video Channel Launched! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ We are pleased to announce the launch of our YouTube video channel, "PRIMIX Webcasting"! On this channel, we will introduce not only our company profile but also a wealth of content including product explanations by our customer relations staff and live reports from exhibitions. We will provide clear explanations of stirring processes, product usage, and features that may have been difficult to understand in the catalog, so please take a look! ▼PRIMIX Webcasting▼ http://www.youtube.com/user/PRIMIXwebcast We will continue to share information that will be helpful to everyone! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━