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Company Overview

• Founded in 1901, listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Standard and Nagoya Stock Exchange Main markets, with 161 consolidated employees as of March 31 2025, and capital of 615 million yen.
• Core business: manufacturing and sales of standard and specialty nails, connected nails, screws, and other construction materials and nail guns.

Completed Previous Medium-Term Management Plan

• All financial targets for the prior medium-term plan were achieved, including sales, operating profit, net profit, and ROE.

New 2025-2027 Medium-Term Management Plan

• Core concept: Provide environmental solutions through connecting technology to contribute to a sustainable society, increase stakeholder trust, and drive sustained corporate value growth.
• Basic policy: Prioritize allocation of management resources to growth areas and build a resilient corporate structure, with a focus on improving profitability, boosting productivity, increasing growth investment, and strengthening finances.

Nails (Construction & Packaging) Segment Key Initiatives

• Production initiatives: Expand unmanned operation and multi-skilled worker training, improve yield loss reduction, and develop new products and technologies tailored to the demand for mid-to-large non-residential wood construction.
• Sales initiatives: Expand sales of high-functional products (such as the split-resistant Kizamame Saikyou Kugi II for cedar), strengthen sales to non-residential wood construction segments (public/commercial facilities/offices), develop distribution for wood non-residential construction products (screws, pins, hardware), and expand competitive OEM partnerships.

Screws & Fasteners (Electrical & Transportation) Segment Key Initiatives

• Production initiatives: Extend unmanned operation time to increase production capacity, introduce automatic weighing and semi-automatic packaging to save labor and enable faster shipping, and train skilled workers for forming machines and expand multi-skilling.
• Sales initiatives: Strengthen active outreach to component manufacturers for EV/HEV battery and CASE-related applications, expand sales to industrial/medical/agricultural/amusement equipment segments, and expand sales focused on licensed overseas products and forming machine products to improve fastening costs for users.

Capital & Shareholder Return Policy

• The new medium-term plan maintains a target payout ratio of 40% or higher, balances ongoing stable dividends with strengthening the balance sheet and accumulating equity for future growth investment.
• Growth investment priorities: Capital expenditure for new customer acquisition in the nails segment, and production capacity expansion to meet growing CASE-related demand in the fasteners segment.

Sustainability Initiatives

• Launched the split-resistant Kizamame Saikyou Kugi II for cedar to support activation of domestic Japanese cedar utilization, which advances the forest resource recycling cycle and contributes to carbon neutrality.
• Natek's insert-less fasteners support lightweighting of EV components by enabling increased use of plastic and aluminum parts, reducing part count and cutting CO2 emissions, supporting global EV adoption.
• Additional initiatives: Promotes diverse hiring (foreign workers, disabled workers, female managers), implements work style reform, participates in local forest conservation activities, and enforces strict quality control.

Updated Shareholder Return

• Introduced a new shareholder benefit program: 3,000 yen QUO card for shareholders holding 1,000+ shares for 1+ years as of the March year-end, with a one-time exception for all qualifying holdings at the March 2025 record date regardless of holding period.
• For the 2025 March term, declared a 5.0 yen per share dividend, representing a payout ratio of 41.7% and DOE of 3.99%.

• For the full fiscal year ending March 2026, Amatei forecasts consolidated sales of 5.7 billion yen, operating profit of 240 million yen, ordinary profit of 220 million yen, and net profit of 145 million yen, representing a slight increase from the 2025 March term results.
• For the 2025-2027 new medium-term management plan, the final fiscal year (ending March 2027) target is: sales of 6.0 billion yen, operating profit of 245 million yen, net profit of 155 million yen, and ROE of 9.1% or higher.
• Demand outlook for the Construction & Packaging segment: While overall new housing starts are expected to see gradual decline driven by population decrease and higher material/interest costs, demand for the company's high-value specialty nails is expected to grow from expanding non-residential mid-to-high rise wood construction, and stable demand is expected from growing 2x4 residential construction driven by labor shortage and work reform needs.
• Demand outlook for the Electrical & Transportation Equipment segment: Growing demand for specialty high-value fasteners is expected from EV/HEV growth, autonomous driving and sensor development, and stable demand is expected from amusement and electrical/OA equipment segments.

For the 2025 March term (84th term), Amatei reported total consolidated sales of 5.583 billion yen, a 0.9% increase year-over-year. The firm operates two business segments:

1. Construction & Packaging Segment: Generated 70% of total consolidated revenue, which equals approximately 3.908 billion yen. This segment produces nails for construction and packaging applications, holds over 40% domestic market share in Japan for nails, and is the largest nail producer in Japan by volume.
2. Electrical & Transportation Equipment Segment: Generated 30% of total consolidated revenue, which equals approximately 1.675 billion yen. This segment operated through subsidiary Natek, which produces specialty screws and fasteners for automotive and electrical equipment applications. Total consolidated operating profit for the period was 239 million yen, an increase of 51 million yen year-over-year. Total assets stood at 5.231 billion yen, with an equity ratio of 28.4%, and ROE of 9.9%.

• Nails Segment: Persistent decline in new residential housing starts driven by population decrease, pressure from low-cost imported nails that requires ongoing differentiation, need to strengthen the existing profit base and develop new business lines.
• Screws & Fasteners Segment: Need to improve productivity and expand production capacity to meet growing demand from EV and related automotive segments, and need to expand business into new growth areas to support continued growth.
• General market risks: Rising raw material prices, higher interest rates slowing housing demand, and broader macroeconomic slowdown that could impact construction and automotive end markets.

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