The order status of our group's mirror polishing machine business and test system business for the fiscal year ending December 2024 is showing a steady trend. Please see the PDF file below.

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Notice Regarding Change of Company Name and Partial Amendment of Articles of Incorporation Our company has resolved at the board of directors meeting held yesterday (February 15) to submit the matter of "Change of Company Name and Partial Amendment of Articles of Incorporation" for discussion at the 62nd Annual General Meeting of Shareholders scheduled for March 17, 2023. We hereby inform you as follows. For further details, please refer to the materials.

Defect detection, which has been difficult until now, has become possible with AI implementation. We would like to inform you that the detection of hard-to-distinguish defects has become partially possible. Currently, verification has been completed for ceramic substrates for power semiconductors, and we will continue to improve functionality in defect detection and operational aspects. *For more details, please download the attached document.

We are pleased to announce that we have developed a "functional ceramic thin film composite flexible substrate" through joint research with Kinki University, as detailed in the attached document, in our main business of electronic substrate.

We are pleased to announce that our company has obtained the "Resilience Certification," which is a certification for organizations contributing to national resilience, implemented by the Japan Resilience Promotion Council.

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