Stakeholder Engagement

In our corporate management, we aim to achieve significant growth together with our diverse stakeholders, including employees, business partners, customers, local communities, shareholders, and investors, through “WIN-WIN” relationships. Additionally, we will promote initiatives to appropriately distribute profits and things of value generated through value co-creation and productivity improvement to multistakeholders, taking into account the importance of returning profits to employees and giving due consideration to business partners.

* Scope : Regular employees of Tokyo Seimitsu Co., Ltd. (non-consolidated basis)

We are committed to building a structure and implementing measures to promote constructive communication with investors, including shareholders, so as to contribute to achieving sustainable growth and increasing corporate value in the medium- and long-term. To ensure smooth communication with investors, we formed the IR Team in the Management Support Dept. under direct control of the President in April 2023. We hold business results briefings for the latest results, as well as for results of every quarter, online, by phone, or in person. We also accept requests for individual media interviews and participate in conferences for individual investors and overseas investors. Also, to ensure the fair provision of information to overseas investors, we have our disclosed information translated into English in principle. The translated information is posted on our English website at the same time the Japanese information is disclosed or as soon as possible. The opinions obtained through constructive communication with shareholders are summarized as appropriate, reported to the Board of Directors and at the Executive Management Meeting on a regular basis, and fed back to relevant departments as necessary.

In fiscal 2024, the semiconductor manufacturing equipment industry attracted a high level of interest, with attention focusing particularly on the demand for high-performance computing (HPC) including generative AI. This resulted in more opportunities for us to communicate with institutional investors and analysts. We dealt with this situation by increasing IR spokespersons and streamlining interview coordination. We provided supplementary information concerning common questions of investors beforehand in disclosed materials and at business results briefings. We also attended more group meetings hosted by securities firms where a large number of institutional investors gathered, thus increasing opportunities for constructive communication and enhancing the quality of communication.

Tokyo Seimitsu is a member of the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan (SEAJ) and participates in the activities of the Service sub-committee and Safety Training sub-committee of the Safety & Support Committee, which aims to enhance the quality of maintenance services, including for semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and achieve a zero accident rate among service representatives.

As a representative of Japan to TC213, which deliberates and establishes standards for geometrical product specifications (GPS) in the Technical Committee, Tokyo Seimitsu participates in working groups (WG4, WG6, WG10, WG15, and WG16) covering coordinate measuring machine standards, roundness measuring machine standards, surface texture measuring instrument/filter standards, and measurement uncertainty standards. In WG6 in particular, as a project leader of international meetings to discuss specifications and standards for roundness measuring machines and to revise calibration standards for surface texture measuring instruments, we are promoting the international standardization of Japanese proposals. In September 2024, a new international standard on the design and measurement characteristics of roundness measuring machines, ISO 5463:2024*, was issued.

* ISO 5463:2024：Geometrical product specifications(GPS) -- Rotary axis form-measuring instruments -- Design and metrological characteristics

The Japan Society for Precision Engineering is organized by experts in their respective fields to promote the sound development of precision engineering technology and to conduct ongoing research on important issues. Tokyo Seimitsu participates in the Expert Committee for Intelligent Nano-Measurement*¹ and the Expert Committee for Convergence Engineering*². Also, in fiscal 2022, one of our employees was appointed to the society’s board, where he will work to promote its activities. In addition to exhibiting equipment at academic lectures held in the spring and fall, we also participate in corporate awards for outstanding student presentations.

To promote the precision measuring instruments industry in Japan, The Japan Precision Measuring Instruments Manufacturers Association holds comprehensive exhibitions concerning measurement and all related aspects, promotes standardization that contributes to the improvement of technology and quality, and holds seminars in collaboration with other organizations. Hitoshi Yoshida, Chairman and CEO of Tokyo Seimitsu, has been the Chairman of this industrial association since fiscal 2020.

The Japan International Machine Tool Fair (JIMTOF), one of the four major international machine tool trade fairs, was held in November 2024. A lot of people participated in the “seminar on the use of precision measuring instruments” hosted by the association.